Pinecone vs Qdrant vs pgvector 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
Qdrant
Competitor 2
pgvector
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 Qdrant
qdrant.tech
Vectors at scale
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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 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
310.5Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
▼ 13.7%
▲ 0.3%
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6-month growth
-32.9%
-6.1%
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Global rank web
#85,031
#175,101
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Avg. last 3 months
506.2K
306.8K
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Bounce rate lower is better
41%
50%
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Pages / visit
4.2
1.8
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Visit duration
2m 31s
1m 13s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 77% · ● Referral 20%
● Direct 75% · ● Referral 24%
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PineconeQdrantpgvectorChroma
0162K324K486K648KPinecone · 602KPinecone · 565.4KPinecone · 627.7KPinecone · 536.6KPinecone · 648KPinecone · 602.3KPinecone · 648KPinecone · 579.9KPinecone · 503.7KPinecone · 434.9KQdrant · 315.9KQdrant · 319.2KQdrant · 363.4KQdrant · 330.7KQdrant · 354.7KQdrant · 315.9KQdrant · 300.2KQdrant · 309.7KQdrant · 310.5K100K1MPinecone · 602KPinecone · 565.4KPinecone · 627.7KPinecone · 536.6KPinecone · 648KPinecone · 602.3KPinecone · 648KPinecone · 579.9KPinecone · 503.7KPinecone · 434.9KQdrant · 315.9KQdrant · 319.2KQdrant · 363.4KQdrant · 330.7KQdrant · 354.7KQdrant · 315.9KQdrant · 300.2KQdrant · 309.7KQdrant · 310.5KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Free
Freemium
Starting price
$20per month · free tier available
Free tier
Free
$250per month · free tier available
Free tier
Free trial
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Plans
Starter FreeBuilder $20/moStandard $50/moEnterprise $500/mo
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Starter FreeTeam $250/moEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
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Data
Data
DataText
Output
Data
Data
Data
Data
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI Developer Tools
Development & CodeAI Developer Tools
Development & CodeAI Developer Tools
Development & CodeAI Developer Tools
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Developer tools
Vector databases
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Databases
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Vector indexes
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Database management
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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.