Chroma
Open-source vector database with a managed cloud. Offers vector, keyword, and regex search with simple client libraries, usage-based pricing, and team plans for production apps.
Pricing Free / $250 per month
Category data
Difficulty Beginner
Type Web App
Status Active
BigML
End to end machine learning platform with GUI and REST API that covers data prep modeling evaluation deployment and governance for cloud or on premises use.
Pricing Free trial, contact sales
Category data
Difficulty Beginner
Type Web App
Status Active
Feature Tags Comparison
Only in Chroma
vector-dbragsearchembeddingsmanagedopensource
Shared
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Only in BigML
machine-learningautomlapideploymentsgovernancecloud
Key Features
Chroma
- • Open-source core with identical APIs on managed Cloud
- • Vector
- • keyword
- • and regex search for hybrid retrieval
- • Usage-based pricing with a $0 starter and team plan
- • Simple client libraries and docs for quick prototyping
BigML
- • GUI and REST API for the full ML lifecycle with reproducible resources
- • AutoML and ensembles
- • Time series anomaly detection clustering and topic modeling
- • WhizzML to script and share pipelines
- • Versioned immutable resources
- • Organizations with roles projects and dashboards
Use Cases
Chroma
- → RAG backends for chat and agents with hybrid filters
- → Semantic search for docs
- → notes
- → and support portals
- → Product search blending vector and keywords for relevance
- → Analytics on unstructured text with metadata slicing
BigML
- → Stand up a governed ML workflow
- → Automate repeatable training and evaluation with WhizzML
- → Detect anomalies for risk monitoring
- → Forecast demand with time series
- → Cluster customers and products
- → Embed predictions through the REST API
Perfect For
Chroma
developers data engineers and platform teams building RAG search and analytics who need an OSS path and a managed cloud with predictable pricing
BigML
Data scientists, analytics engineers, and ML platform teams who want a standardized GUI plus API approach to build govern and deploy models
Capabilities
Chroma
Collections and Queries Professional
Managed Cloud Professional
Hybrid Search Intermediate
Observability and Roles Intermediate
BigML
AutoML and Models Professional
Pipelines with WhizzML Professional
Cloud or Private Enterprise
Versioning and Roles Professional
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