Weaviate vs Chroma vs Pinecone vs Qdrant

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

Your tool
Weaviate
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Competitor 1
Chroma
Competitor 2
Pinecone
Competitor 3
Qdrant
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool 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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Competitor Pinecone
pinecone.io
Vector database for AI applications
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Competitor Qdrant
qdrant.tech
Vectors at scale
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
154.2Kvisits/mo
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434.9Kvisits/mo
310.5Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▼ 11.8%
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▼ 13.7%
▲ 0.3%
6-month growth
-7.0%
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-32.9%
-6.1%
Global rank web
#293,589
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#85,031
#175,101
Avg. last 3 months
155.7K
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506.2K
306.8K
Bounce rate lower is better
41%
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41%
50%
Pages / visit
1.9
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4.2
1.8
Visit duration
50s
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2m 31s
1m 13s
Traffic sources
● Direct 82% · ● Referral 18%
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● Direct 77% · ● Referral 20%
● Direct 75% · ● Referral 24%
WeaviateChromaPineconeQdrant
0162K324K486K648KWeaviate · 226KWeaviate · 193.3KWeaviate · 188.9KWeaviate · 165.9KWeaviate · 184.5KWeaviate · 169.2KWeaviate · 137.9KWeaviate · 174.8KWeaviate · 154.2KPinecone · 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 · 310.5K100K1MWeaviate · 226KWeaviate · 193.3KWeaviate · 188.9KWeaviate · 165.9KWeaviate · 184.5KWeaviate · 169.2KWeaviate · 137.9KWeaviate · 174.8KWeaviate · 154.2KPinecone · 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
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
$45per month · free tier available
$250per month · free tier available
$20per month · free tier available
Free tier
Free tier
Free trial
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API access
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Plans
Free FreeFlex $45/moPremium $0
Starter FreeTeam $250/moEnterprise Custom
Starter FreeBuilder $20/moStandard $50/moEnterprise $500/mo
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Capabilities input → output
Input
DataImagesText
DataText
DataText
Data
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 · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Developer tools
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Vector databases
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Databases
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Development
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Database search
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Vector indexes
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Database management
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Prompts
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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.