Lifecycle, licence, release, pricing and hosting changes to Chroma in the AI Agent Infrastructure Landscape. https://mrpeppersdev.github.io/agent-infrastructure-landscape/feeds/chroma--trychroma-com.xml 2026-10-29T00:00:00Z AI Agent Infrastructure Landscape https://mrpeppersdev.github.io/agent-infrastructure-landscape/systems/chroma--trychroma-com#2026-10-29-a5ff184341 2026-10-29T00:00:00Z

Pricing: “Starter $0 + usage ($5 free credits); Team $250/mo + usage ($100 credits); Enterprise custom; OSS free” → “Chroma Cloud winding down: read-only from 2026-11-22, no reads after 2026-12-22, no new Cloud plans; open-source ChromaDB free (Apache-2.0)”. Funding / ownership: “$18M total $75M val Seed · 2023-04” → “Acquired by Replit (definitive agreement announced 2026-10-23); prior $18M total $75M val Seed · 2023-04”. Source change: https://github.com/MrPeppersDev/agent-infrastructure-landscape/pull/305

https://mrpeppersdev.github.io/agent-infrastructure-landscape/systems/chroma--trychroma-com#2026-10-26-80cd27834a 2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

Latest release: “1.5.9 2026-05-05” → “v1.6.0 (2026-10-13)”. Pricing: “Free + paid” → “Starter $0 + usage ($5 free credits); Team $250/mo + usage ($100 credits); Enterprise custom; OSS free”. Deployment: “Both” → “Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — OSS embedded/server; Chroma Cloud serverless; single-tenant/BYOC on Enterprise”. MCP support: “via official adapter — chroma-mcp” → “yes — official chroma-core/chroma-mcp (GitHub, Apache-2.0)”. Source change: https://github.com/MrPeppersDev/agent-infrastructure-landscape/pull/258