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A payments protocol for the internet — built on plain HTTP.
★ 6.7k starsApache-2.0
View guide →Open-source search infrastructure built for AI workloads.
chroma is an open-source ai agents project by chroma-core (chroma-core/chroma on GitHub). It has 29,463 GitHub stars and 2,552 forks, is released under the Apache-2.0 license, and was last updated on GitHub on 7 October 2026.
Pick one concrete task so you can judge whether the project fits.
Clone the repo and check the prerequisites listed in the README.
Install what it needs and configure credentials or model access.
Run a minimal example end to end before wiring it into your stack.
Designed around embedding storage and retrieval.
A developer-friendly interface for search.
Tagged for agents and AI-agent workloads.
Apache-2.0 licensed.
Tens of thousands of stars and broad ecosystem use.
Updated in October 2026.
Install Chroma into your Python environment.
pip install chromadbLaunch a local instance per the quickstart.
# see README — the Rust core has its own build path
python -c "import chromadb"Create a collection and query it from your app code.
# follow the quickstart to index your first documentsIt is maintained by the chroma-core organization at chroma-core/chroma, with 2,552 forks.
Yes. It is released under the Apache-2.0 license, which permits commercial use, modification, and redistribution. Read the LICENSE file for the exact terms.
The open-source database is free to run; you only pay for any LLM or embedding APIs you call.
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Run pip install chromadb and follow the quickstart to index your first collection.
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