Deploy Chroma Cloud
👉 $5 Free Credits • Perfect for Rapid RAG Pipelines
Deploy Weaviate Sandbox
👉 Up to 50k Free Vectors • 14-Day Free Sandbox
Chroma DB
- Rate Limit Cap
- Usage Based
- MFA Support
- Enforced via Chroma Cloud console two-factor authentication
- Enterprise SSO SAML
- Available on Enterprise plans with SAML and organization RBAC
- Custom Domain Support
- Custom API endpoints and dedicated instances on Enterprise tiers
- Supported SDKs
- Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, LangChain, LlamaIndex integrations
- Social Providers
- GitHub OAuth for Chroma Cloud account login
- Compliance Standards
- SOC 2 Type II, GDPR on Enterprise agreements
- Webhook Fallback Policy
- Event-driven upserts via application queues with idempotent collection IDs
Insight: Chroma DB
Start on the starter credit plan and monitor GiB consumption before scaling to dedicated clusters for production RAG workloads.
Weaviate
- Rate Limit Cap
- Sandbox Limited
- MFA Support
- Enforced via Weaviate Cloud console MFA and organization access policies
- Enterprise SSO SAML
- Available on Enterprise with SAML SSO and private networking
- Custom Domain Support
- Private endpoints and custom hostnames on Enterprise deployments
- Supported SDKs
- Python, JavaScript, Go, Java, GraphQL, REST, LangChain, LlamaIndex
- Social Providers
- GitHub and Google OAuth for Weaviate Cloud authentication
- Compliance Standards
- SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA BAA on Enterprise agreements
- Webhook Fallback Policy
- Batch import webhooks with retry via Weaviate batch API and monitoring alerts
Insight: Weaviate
Use sandbox clusters for development and migrate to dedicated clusters before exceeding 50k object free-tier thresholds.