Weaviate vs Zilliz Cloud vs Chroma

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

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Weaviate
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Competitor 1
Zilliz Cloud
Competitor 2
Chroma
Competitor 3
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Your tool Weaviate
weaviate.io
Search that understands meaning
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Competitor Zilliz Cloud
zilliz.com
Zilliz Cloud is a fully managed vector database service from the creators of Milvus, now described as a Vector Lakebase.
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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
154.2Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
▼ 11.8%
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6-month growth
-7.0%
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Global rank web
#293,589
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Avg. last 3 months
155.7K
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Bounce rate lower is better
41%
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Pages / visit
1.9
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Visit duration
50s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 82% · ● Referral 18%
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WeaviateZilliz CloudChroma
056.5K113K169.5K226KWeaviate · 226KWeaviate · 193.3KWeaviate · 188.9KWeaviate · 165.9KWeaviate · 184.5KWeaviate · 169.2KWeaviate · 137.9KWeaviate · 174.8KWeaviate · 154.2K100K1MWeaviate · 226KWeaviate · 193.3KWeaviate · 188.9KWeaviate · 165.9KWeaviate · 184.5KWeaviate · 169.2KWeaviate · 137.9KWeaviate · 174.8KWeaviate · 154.2KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJul
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
$45per month · free tier available
$197per month · free tier available
$250per month · free tier available
Free tier
Free trial
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Plans
Free FreeFlex $45/moPremium $0
Free FreeStandard FreeEnterprise $197/moBusiness Critical Custom
Starter FreeTeam $250/moEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
DataImagesText
Data
DataText
Output
Data
Data
Data
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI Developer Tools
Development & CodeAI Developer Tools
Development & CodeAI Developer Tools
Tasks what each tool can do · 2 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Vector databases
Developer tools
Vector indexes
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RAG
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LLM development
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Databases
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Self hosted
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Cloud data management
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Information retrieval
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