Chroma vs Qdrant: Which Is More Actively Maintained? Live GitHub Data
Chroma is an open-source embedding database that is popular for building retrieval apps in Python, while Qdrant is a vector search engine written in Rust and aimed at production workloads. This page compares how actively each project is maintained, using live data from GitHub.
GitHub data checked 19 minutes ago.
Side by side
| Measure | Chroma | Qdrant |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Slowing down | Active |
| Commits, last 91 days | 115 | 709 |
| Same 91 days a year earlier | 334 | 347 |
| Change vs last year | −66% | +104% |
| Last commit | 17 Oct 2026 | 18 Oct 2026 |
| GitHub stars | 29,523 | 35,128 |
| Stars gained, daily snapshots | +9 in 2 days | +27 in 2 days |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Managed cloud | Not checked | Not checked |
| Visitor rating | —0 of 3 ratings needed | —0 of 3 ratings needed |
What the numbers say
In the last 91 days, Chroma’s default branch received 115 commits and Qdrant’s received 709. That is about 6.2 times as many for Qdrant, though projects that squash each pull request into one commit show fewer commits for the same work, so treat the gap as a rough signal. Against the same 91 days a year earlier, Chroma is at −66% and Qdrant at +104%. The index labels Chroma “slowing down” and Qdrant “active”. Chroma has 29,523 GitHub stars and Qdrant has 35,128; stars show how many people bookmarked a project, not how many use it.
What this comparison does not tell you
These are maintenance signals only. They do not measure speed, output quality, features, documentation or how easy either tool is to run, and we have not benchmarked either tool for this page. A quiet repository can still be a good fit for a stable job, and a busy one can still break between releases. Use the numbers to decide what to check next, not which tool is better.
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How this is measured: commits on each repository’s default branch counted through the GitHub API, the last 91 days against the same 91 days a year earlier; stars, licence and archived flag from the repository; README checked daily for maintenance notices. Visitor ratings come from visitors to each tool’s page, not from EvalAITools.