# Chroma — developer ecosystem report

- GitHub org: `chroma-core`
- Category: ai
- Overall score: 49.0 / 100
- Overall rank: #240
- Last refreshed: 2026-08-20

## Pillar scores

| Pillar | Score / 100 | Rank | Weight in overall |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Code & Polish | 41.0 | #703 | ~22% |
| Education | 84.0 | #47 | ~18% |
| AI readiness | 59.0 | #96 | part of Reach |
| Builder experience | 0.0 | #1 | ~12% |
| Community | 42.0 | #314 | ~16% |
| Reach | 40.0 | #499 | ~18% |
| Momentum | 6.0 | #839 | ~14% |

## Links

- GitHub: https://github.com/chroma-core
- Website: https://trychroma.com
- Docs: https://docs.trychroma.com

## Public GitHub totals

| Metric | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Repos analyzed | 12 |
| Stars | 31,001 |
| Forks | 2,871 |
| Open issues | 894 |
| Contributors | — |

## Top repositories

| Repo | Stars | Language | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [chroma](https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma) | 29,095 | Rust | Search infrastructure for AI |
| [chroma-mcp](https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma-mcp) | 585 | Python | A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementation that provides database capabilities for Chroma |
| [context-1-data-gen](https://github.com/chroma-core/context-1-data-gen) | 436 | Python | — |
| [context-rot](https://github.com/chroma-core/context-rot) | 294 | Python | This repository contains the toolkit for replicating results from our technical report. |
| [gpt4-pdf-chatbot-langchain-chroma](https://github.com/chroma-core/gpt4-pdf-chatbot-langchain-chroma) | 111 | TypeScript | javascript implementation of a PDF chatbot |
| [chroma-cookbooks](https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma-cookbooks) | 94 | Jupyter Notebook | Demos and sample apps using Chroma |
| [chroma-swift](https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma-swift) | 69 | Swift | Run Chroma embedded in Swift |
| [generative-benchmarking](https://github.com/chroma-core/generative-benchmarking) | 52 | Jupyter Notebook | — |
| [package-search](https://github.com/chroma-core/package-search) | 51 | — | Public code packages indexed in Chroma |
| [onnx-embedding](https://github.com/chroma-core/onnx-embedding) | 38 | Python | A repository for creating, and sample code for consuming an ONNX embedding model |
| [chromadb-default-embed](https://github.com/chroma-core/chromadb-default-embed) | 27 | JavaScript | chroma's fork of @xenova/transformers |
| [docs](https://github.com/chroma-core/docs) | 23 | CSS | — |

## Methodology

Scores are computed from public signals only (GitHub, package registries, docs sites, community platforms). Pillar definitions: https://www.smoower.com/docs.md

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