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Bolt.new vs Chroma

Prompt to full-stack app in your browser — by StackBlitz
vs. Open-source vector DB designed for AI apps — embeddings-first, dev-friendly

Bolt.new ↗Chroma website ↗

Pricing tiers

Bolt.new

Free
1M tokens/month. 300K tokens/day cap. Public + private projects. 10MB file uploads. Hosting + unlimited DBs.
Free
Pro
$25/month. Starts at 10M tokens/month, no daily cap. No Bolt branding, 100MB uploads, custom domains, SEO support, image AI edit. Rollover tokens.
$25/mo
Teams
$30/member/month. Centralized billing, team access, private NPM registries, design system knowledge.
$30/mo
Enterprise
Custom. SSO, audit logs, dedicated account manager, 24/7 support.
Custom
Bolt.new ↗

Chroma

Cloud — Free
$5 free credits. Great for trying it out.
Free
Cloud — Pro
$100 credits included, then usage-based. Dedicated resources, SOC2, priority support.
$0 base (usage-based)
Self-Host (OSS)
MIT-licensed. Embedded or Docker. Free forever.
$0 base (usage-based)
Cloud — Enterprise
Custom. VPC, compliance, dedicated support.
Custom
Chroma website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing free on Bolt.new vs cloud-free on Chroma.

MetricBolt.newChroma
No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers.

Features

Bolt.new · 14 features

  • Browser Terminal — Real shell in-browser. Run npm install, scripts, etc.
  • Deploy to Netlify — One-click deploy to Netlify.
  • Deploy to Vercel — One-click deploy to Vercel.
  • Design System Knowledge — Team plan: shared design-system context for consistent UI.
  • Expo Support — Build React Native/Expo apps too.
  • GitHub Export — Push full project to a new GitHub repo.
  • Image Input — Upload image/sketch → Bolt generates matching UI.
  • Import Existing Project — Upload an existing repo and iterate in Bolt.
  • Live Edit + Run — Edit code + hot reload alongside AI agent.
  • Private NPM Registries — Team plan: use private packages.
  • Prompt to App — Describe app → Bolt scaffolds + codes + runs it in the browser.
  • Stripe Integration — Hook up Stripe payments in-chat.
  • Supabase Integration — Provision + connect Supabase from chat.
  • WebContainer runtime — Node.js + terminal + filesystem running entirely in your browser.

Chroma · 11 features

  • Client-Server Mode — Run Chroma via Docker; clients connect over HTTP.
  • Collections — Named groups of embeddings + metadata.
  • Distributed (Cloud) — Horizontal scaling on Chroma Cloud.
  • Embedded Mode — In-process Python — chromadb.Client() and go. Zero setup.
  • Embedding Functions — Plug-in embedders (OpenAI, Cohere, SentenceTransformers, HF).
  • Full-Text Search — BM25 + vector hybrid.
  • Metadata Filters — Where-clause query language.
  • Migration Tools — Import from Pinecone + other stores.
  • Multi-Modal — Text + image embeddings (CLIP, etc.).
  • Python + JS APIs — Same API shape across both SDKs.
  • Serverless Cloud — Pay for storage + queries, auto-scale.

Developer interfaces

KindBolt.newChroma
SDK—chromadb (JS/TS), chromadb (Python)
REST—Chroma HTTP API
MCP—Chroma MCP
OTHERBolt Web App, GitHub Export, StackBlitz Sync, WebContainer runtimeDocker Server, Embedded Mode (in-process Python)
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