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
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Diffbot
Structured web data platform that crawls the public web and exposes automatic extraction, knowledge graph, and search via API with free and paid plans.
Pricing Free / $299 per month
Category data
Difficulty Beginner
Type Web App
Status Active
Feature Tags Comparison
Only in Chroma
vector-dbragembeddingsmanagedopensource
Shared
search
Only in Diffbot
extractionknowledge-graphapicrawl
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
Diffbot
- • Automatic article and product extraction without custom rules
- • Bulk extract and crawl capabilities for large scale coverage
- • Global Knowledge Graph search and enrich endpoints
- • Entity resolution and deduplication across sources
- • REST APIs with SDKs and usage dashboards
- • Flexible credits model that scales with volume
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
Diffbot
- → Enrich company and contact records for sales intelligence
- → Track competitor product pages for price and spec changes
- → Build vertical search on top of structured entities
- → Assemble market maps by querying the Knowledge Graph
- → Monitor news and blogs for emerging topics at scale
- → Power research portals with fact level search
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
Diffbot
growth teams researchers data engineers SaaS builders and marketplaces that need structured web data without maintaining crawlers
Capabilities
Chroma
Collections and Queries Professional
Managed Cloud Professional
Hybrid Search Intermediate
Observability and Roles Intermediate
Diffbot
Auto parsers Professional
Entity search Professional
Crawl and Bulk Enterprise
Credits and SDKs Intermediate
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