Pinecone vs pgvector vs Weaviate vs Chroma

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

Your tool
Pinecone
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Competitor 1
pgvector
Competitor 2
Weaviate
Competitor 3
Chroma
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Pinecone
pinecone.io
Vector database for AI applications
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Competitor pgvector
github.com
pgvector is an open-source extension that adds vector similarity search to Postgres.
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Competitor Weaviate
weaviate.io
Search that understands meaning
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Competitor Chroma
trychroma.com
Chroma is open-source search infrastructure for AI, released under Apache 2.0.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
434.9Kvisits/mo
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154.2Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
▼ 13.7%
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▼ 11.8%
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6-month growth
-32.9%
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-7.0%
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Global rank web
#85,031
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#293,589
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Avg. last 3 months
506.2K
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155.7K
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Bounce rate lower is better
41%
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41%
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Pages / visit
4.2
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1.9
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Visit duration
2m 31s
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50s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 77% · ● Referral 20%
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● Direct 82% · ● Referral 18%
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PineconepgvectorWeaviateChroma
0162K324K486K648KPinecone · 602KPinecone · 565.4KPinecone · 627.7KPinecone · 536.6KPinecone · 648KPinecone · 602.3KPinecone · 648KPinecone · 579.9KPinecone · 503.7KPinecone · 434.9KWeaviate · 226KWeaviate · 193.3KWeaviate · 188.9KWeaviate · 165.9KWeaviate · 184.5KWeaviate · 169.2KWeaviate · 137.9KWeaviate · 174.8KWeaviate · 154.2K100K1MPinecone · 602KPinecone · 565.4KPinecone · 627.7KPinecone · 536.6KPinecone · 648KPinecone · 602.3KPinecone · 648KPinecone · 579.9KPinecone · 503.7KPinecone · 434.9KWeaviate · 226KWeaviate · 193.3KWeaviate · 188.9KWeaviate · 165.9KWeaviate · 184.5KWeaviate · 169.2KWeaviate · 137.9KWeaviate · 174.8KWeaviate · 154.2KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Free
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
$20per month · free tier available
Free
$45per month · free tier available
$250per month · free tier available
Free tier
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Plans
Starter FreeBuilder $20/moStandard $50/moEnterprise $500/mo
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Free FreeFlex $45/moPremium $0
Starter FreeTeam $250/moEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
DataText
Data
DataImagesText
DataText
Output
Data
Data
Data
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Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
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Categories
Development & CodeAI Developer Tools
Development & CodeAI Developer Tools
Development & CodeAI Developer Tools
Development & CodeAI Developer Tools
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Vector databases
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Vector indexes
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LLM development
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PostgreSQL assistance
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Information retrieval
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Traffic figures are third-party estimates for the tool's own domain; tools sharing a domain with a bigger product are not counted. Pricing is captured from each tool's site and may lag.