Independent product intelligence · Worldwide · 2026-05-01 → 2026-07-31

Chromatrychroma.com

Chroma is an open-source database solution designed specifically for AI applications, offering integrated embeddings, vector search, document storage, and multi-modal retrieval capabilities.

Developer & AI Platformtrychroma.comTracked since 2026-08-211 discovery source
23.4KBacklinks
4.7KReferring domains
35Domain authority
+24.6%Referring domains · 90 days

Authority & distribution

How strong is Chroma’s web footprint?

Backlinks measure accumulated distribution; referring domains show how broadly that authority is spread. Both are observable on the open web, so both are published for every product here.

Backlinks

23.4KCurrent snapshot

Referring domains

4.7KCurrent snapshot

Authority

35Domain authority · category median 22

90-day move

+24.6%Referring domains, last 90 days
At 35, Chroma sits above the 22 median for its category.

Trajectory · Pro

The counts above are the latest of 370 daily observations. The curve through them is on the full profile.

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Traffic & engagement

Where Chroma ranks

Measured · Pro

Measured for this product: global rank, country rank and category rank.

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AI referral visibility

Which AI assistants are already sending Chroma traffic?

Measured · Pro

Measured for this product: AI referral traffic, which assistants refer it and which pages those referrals land on.

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Product profile

What Chroma is selling.

Traffic makes more sense when you can connect it to the actual product promise.

“Chroma”

Chroma is an open-source database solution designed specifically for AI applications, offering integrated embeddings, vector search, document storage, and multi-modal retrieval capabilities.

Developer & AI PlatformSeen 2026-08-21 → 2026-08-21Coverage tier C

What we have measured

4 of 8 signal groups are available for this product: identity, authority and backlinks, AI referrals, search demand.

Not measured for this domain: traffic and engagement, audience demographics, country distribution, acquisition mix. Those sections are left out of the page rather than filled with estimates.

Canonical website: https://www.trychroma.com

Observed across 1 discovery source.

Research questions

What the evidence answers about Chroma.

Every answer is tied to a source we collected, and the questions with no evidence behind them are left unanswered rather than guessed.

Who is the target audience for Chroma?

Chroma is designed for developers and teams building AI applications. The product is trusted by millions of developers and is categorized within the Developer & AI Platform segment, indicating its primary use by technical teams.

What key features does Chroma offer?

Chroma offers a comprehensive set of features for AI search infrastructure, including sparse vector search (BM25, SPLADE), vector search, full-text search, metadata search, and dataset forking for versioning. It also provides a CLI for development and supports TypeScript, Python, and Rust.

How is Chroma priced or packaged?

Chroma is offered as an open-source project under the Apache 2.0 license, which is free to use. The homepage also invites users to 'Start free on Cloud,' indicating a free cloud offering is available alongside self-hosted options.

What is Chroma and what problem does it solve?

Chroma is an open-source search infrastructure designed specifically for AI applications. It solves the problem of providing a fast, scalable, and cost-effective foundation for vector, full-text, regex, and metadata search, supporting core needs for building AI features like retrieval and knowledge bases.

What is Chroma?

Chroma is an open-source database solution designed specifically for AI applications, offering integrated embeddings, vector search, document storage, and multi-modal retrieval capabilities.

5 of 6 research questions are answered for this product. The rest need source evidence we have not collected yet, so they are left unanswered rather than guessed.

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  • Backlink trajectoryThe figures above are the latest observation. The daily curve behind them holds 370.
  • AI referral detailHow much traffic assistants send, which 5 of them do it, and the 15 pages they land on.
  • Search structure and ranking depthOrganic against paid, brand against non-brand, and how many keywords rank in the top three against the long tail — which is what decides whether the demand is portable or tied to the name.
  • The rest of the marketPage through every leaderboard 100 rows at a time, put any five products side by side, and query the whole dataset over API / MCP.

Worldwide estimates · Data period 2026-05-01 → 2026-07-31. Figures are measured estimates intended for market research. Signals we have not measured for this domain are omitted, never estimated; a measured zero is still reported as zero. How this was measured