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Chroma Cloud vs PlanetScale
Compare Chroma Cloud, PlanetScale by database engines, storage, compute, backups, branching and vector-search features.
Databases & Vector pricing calculator
20 GB
Chroma Cloud
$250 / mo
Team · 20 GB storage
PlanetScale
$5.00 / mo
Base Plan · 20 GB storage
Listed USD plan fees and tracked usage only. Unlisted compute, transfer, extras, taxes and contract terms are excluded. Custom or unsupported plan usage is not estimated.
Databases & Vector overview & pricing
| Databases & Vector | Chroma Cloud | PlanetScale |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Chroma | PlanetScale |
| Billing unit | GB storage | GB storage |
| Plan at selected usage | Team | Base Plan |
| Monthly estimate | $250/mo | $5.00/mo |
| Workload | 20 GB storage | 20 GB storage |
| Free access | $5 free credits | None |
| Published plans | Starter, Team, Enterprise | Base Plan, Enterprise |
| Prices checked | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-08 |
Provider
- Chroma Cloud
- Chroma
- PlanetScale
- PlanetScale
Billing unit
- Chroma Cloud
- GB storage
- PlanetScale
- GB storage
Plan at selected usage
- Chroma Cloud
- Team
- PlanetScale
- Base Plan
Monthly estimate
- Chroma Cloud
- $250/mo
- PlanetScale
- $5.00/mo
Workload
- Chroma Cloud
- 20 GB storage
- PlanetScale
- 20 GB storage
Free access
- Chroma Cloud
- $5 free credits
- PlanetScale
- None
Published plans
- Chroma Cloud
- Starter, Team, Enterprise
- PlanetScale
- Base Plan, Enterprise
Prices checked
- Chroma Cloud
- 2026-10-08
- PlanetScale
- 2026-10-08
Databases & Vector monthly cost
Chroma Cloud: $250PlanetScale: $5.00
Cost by GB storage
Cost curve data
| GB storage | Chroma Cloud | PlanetScale |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | $0 | $5.00 |
| 5 | $250 | $5.00 |
| 10 | $250 | $5.00 |
| 20 | $250 | $5.00 |
| 40 | $250 | $5.00 |
| 100 | $250 | $5.00 |
| 200 | $250 | $5.00 |
0
- Chroma Cloud
- $0
- PlanetScale
- $5.00
5
- Chroma Cloud
- $250
- PlanetScale
- $5.00
10
- Chroma Cloud
- $250
- PlanetScale
- $5.00
20
- Chroma Cloud
- $250
- PlanetScale
- $5.00
40
- Chroma Cloud
- $250
- PlanetScale
- $5.00
100
- Chroma Cloud
- $250
- PlanetScale
- $5.00
200
- Chroma Cloud
- $250
- PlanetScale
- $5.00
Which database providers fit your needs?
Chroma Cloud features & plan notes
- Open source
- Simple Python API
- Embeddings-first
- $250 + usage
- 100 databases
- 30 team members
- Slack support
- SOC II
- Volume-based discounts
PlanetScale features & plan notes
- Vitess MySQL & Postgres
- Deploy requests
- Vitess (MySQL-compatible databases with horizontal sharding; pricing based on cluster size, VTGate configuration, and storage)
- Neki (Postgres databases with horizontal sharding; pricing based on shard size/count, router configuration, replicas, storage, backup storage, and network usage)
- PlanetScale Postgres Single node (starting at $5/month)
- PlanetScale Postgres High Availability (1 primary + 2 replicas across 3 availability zones)
- PlanetScale Postgres Metal (starting at $50/month with local NVMe storage)
- Pay month to month based on resource usage (compute, topology, storage, network egress, backup storage)
How to compare database providers
Start with the engine and workload: relational databases, vector indexes and Redis services are not interchangeable. Storage estimates do not include unlisted compute, query, replication or network charges. Check backup retention, regions and scaling behavior.
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