Small business▲+2Since September 2026: 4% → 6%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
6%from 4% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 5 of 29, unchanged
1 category · RankedChroma
101Judge labels
7First choices
35Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
6% in Vector databases for mid-market buyers
Rank 4 of 44 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 31% of its 36 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Chroma →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business5 of 36
5%42 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market4 of 44
6%36 labels
criticized challenger
Enterprise45 of 45
0%23 labels
criticized challenger
In vector databases · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Chroma for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vector databases | Data platform | 6% | 4 of 44 | 31% | 36 | criticized challenger | ▲+3Since September 2026: 4% → 7%, +3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Chroma held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Vector databases · by segment
Mid-market▲+3Since September 2026: 4% → 7%, +3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
7%from 4% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 8 pointsRank 5 → 4 of 35
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 43 → 44 of 44
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vector databases | 4% | 7% | ▲+3Since September 2026: 4% → 7%, +3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 5 → 4 of 44 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Chroma across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Chroma across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
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| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct10 labelsNone
Paraphrase6 labelsNone
Comparative26 labels3not counted in share
Budget-constrained21 labels7
Scale-constrained13 labelsNone
Negative25 labels3not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative101 labels in all, every segment counted; 7 of the 13 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Start with Chroma or Qdrant (self‑hosted) or pgvector if you already have PostgreSQL.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Vector databases · budget prompt · first choice
“Best for small budgets: Chroma (free, self-hosted) or pgvector (free, if using PostgreSQL).” Mistral Small · Vector databases · budget prompt · first choice
“Chroma: Offers a free plan and is considered one of the cheapest options.” Llama 4 Maverick · Vector databases · budget prompt · first choice
“Chroma is best for very low-cost prototypes” Perplexity Sonar · Vector databases · budget prompt · first choice
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“Chroma has experienced significant production issues, including a critical memory leak... A severe cache invalidation bug in version 0.5 caused p99 latency to spike from 42ms to 542ms” MiniMax M2.5 · Vector databases · negative prompt · hard negative
“Only use Chroma behind a private network with auth enabled and patched, never internet exposed with defaults.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Vector databases · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid Chroma for production — it's a prototype tool, not a production database” Kimi K2 · Vector databases · negative prompt · hard negative
“designed less for scalability and more for fast deployment... best for prototyping rather than production at scale” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Vector databases · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Chroma, over the 101 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Chroma was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Chroma, over the 101 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Chroma was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Chroma. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 94 of the 101 answers that named Chroma and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
dev.to48
iternal.ai45
marktechpost.com43
pecollective.com38
atlan.com36
firecrawl.dev29
g2.com27
cognee.ai25
encore.dev22
promptquorum.com22
335 of the 335 domain citations in answers naming Chroma came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
trychroma.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Chroma takes 6% of first choices and pgvector takes 35%.ShowHide
Search and answers
trychroma.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Chroma takes 6% of first choices and pgvector takes 35%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “vector database”
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not in the top ten
Position for “vector databases”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 33,100 a month (“chroma”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 7,156 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 2,101 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 176 · 51 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 5,617
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
6%
rank 4 of 44 in vector databases
Segment leader
35%
pgvector
- First choices
- 7 across its categories
- Named in
- 101 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 94 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on trychroma.com
278
subdomains included
Content
58
counted in the table below
Documentation
153
Product · Integration
4 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 25 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 21 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 5 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 4 | undated | |||
| Case study | 3 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page trychroma.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read October 5, 2026.
Follow Chroma
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
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Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Chroma's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Chroma, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Chroma by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Chroma is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Chroma, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.