Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/BerriAI/litellm/vs/chroma-core/chroma
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/BerriAI/litellm/vs/chroma-core/chroma.md
Description: litellm and chroma share 18 technologies: FastAPI, axum, tower, aws-sdk-s3, sqlx-postgres, sqlx, Postgres, SQLite, OpenAI, Tokio, rmcp, tokenizers, Pydantic, schemars, jsonschema, tracing, boto3, and tracing-subscriber. litellm is written in Python and chroma in Rust.

# litellm vs chroma

litellm and chroma share 18 technologies: FastAPI, axum, tower, aws-sdk-s3, sqlx-postgres, sqlx, Postgres, SQLite, OpenAI, Tokio, rmcp, tokenizers, Pydantic, schemars, jsonschema, tracing, boto3, and tracing-subscriber. litellm is written in Python and chroma in Rust.

- [BerriAI/litellm](https://seerepo.com/r/BerriAI/litellm): The fastest, litest AI Gateway. Rust core with Python SDK. Call 100+ LLM APIs in OpenAI (or native) format with cost tracking, guardrails, load balancing, and logging [Bedrock, Azure, OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenAI, VertexAI, vLLM, Nvidia NIM]
- [chroma-core/chroma](https://seerepo.com/r/chroma-core/chroma): Search infrastructure for AI

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: FastAPI, axum, tower, aws-sdk-s3, sqlx-postgres, sqlx, Postgres, SQLite, OpenAI, Tokio, rmcp, tokenizers, Pydantic, schemars, jsonschema, tracing, boto3, tracing-subscriber
- Only in litellm: Flask, psycopg, rusqlite, moka, Redis, azure_storage_blob, Claude, Qdrant, anyio, AIOHTTP, React, Next.js, Anthropic, jsonwebtoken, aws-sdk-sts, azure_identity, gcp_auth, litellm, tiktoken, tiktoken-rs, jinja2, zip, azure_core, aws-sdk-secretsmanager, Tailwind CSS, class-variance-authority, next-themes, tanstack, React Hook Form, Base UI, react-syntax-highlighter, recharts, react-copy-to-clipboard, react-hotkeys-hook, usehooks-ts, @shadcn/react, cmdk, sonner, ProseMirror, prosemirror-state, prosemirror-view, react-json-view-lite, react-resizable-panels, Lucide, @heroicons/react, jwt-decode, react-markdown, papaparse, remark-gfm, Zod, @hookform/resolvers
- Only in chroma: pgx, pq, s3, sqlx-sqlite, arrow, foyer, object_store, usearch, uvicorn, Rich, Ratatui, crossterm, indicatif, dialoguer, utoipa-swagger-ui, gorm.io/gorm, pypika, sea-query, bcrypt, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/credentials, hf-hub, onnxruntime, parquet, tree-sitter-md, validator, k8s-openapi, opentelemetry-api, opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc, opentelemetry-instrumentation-fastapi, github.com/pingcap/log, go.uber.org/zap, tracing-opentelemetry, github.com/rs/zerolog, google-cloud-googleapis, OpenTelemetry, go.opentelemetry.io/otel, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config, go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/otelaws, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlpmetric/otlpmetricgrpc, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace/otlptracegrpc, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace, kube, kubernetes, opentelemetry-otlp, psutil, @xenova/transformers, cohere-ai, ollama, Ajv, Hugging Face, together-ai

## Side by side

| | litellm | chroma |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 4,586,231 lines written, 5,606 code files | 474,465 lines written, 886 code files |
| Who writes it | 20.1% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Devin, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, OpenHands, Codex, Aider, and Gemini CLI | 1.5% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Cursor, and Sweep |
| Activity | Last push November 5, 2026, 46,240 commits, 62,741 stars | Last push November 7, 2026, 4,542 commits, 29,650 stars |
| Tests | 6,918 test files. 22% of its code files have a test that imports them | 345 test files. 31% of its code files have a test that imports them |

- Size: Lines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
- Who writes it: A commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
- Activity: From GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
- Tests: The files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.

## Frequently asked questions

### Which is bigger, litellm or chroma?

litellm, with 4,586,231 lines written; chroma has 474,465.

The proof: [BerriAI/litellm's code at commit 7e4ad6e](https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/tree/7e4ad6eb333071d67c2eb03ce6468f89a0855027)

### Which has more GitHub stars, litellm or chroma?

litellm, with 62,741 stars; chroma has 29,650.

The proof: [BerriAI/litellm on GitHub](https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm)

### Which has more tests, litellm or chroma?

litellm, with 6,918 test files; chroma has 345.

The proof: [BerriAI/litellm's code at commit 7e4ad6e](https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/tree/7e4ad6eb333071d67c2eb03ce6468f89a0855027)

### Which was updated more recently, litellm or chroma?

chroma: its last push was on November 7, 2026, and litellm's on November 5, 2026.

The proof: [chroma-core/chroma's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma/commits)

### Which has more commits signed by AI, litellm or chroma?

litellm: an AI signed 20.1% of its commits, with Claude Code, Devin, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, OpenHands, Codex, Aider, and Gemini CLI; in chroma, 1.5%.

The proof: [the commits each tool signed in BerriAI/litellm](https://seerepo.com/r/BerriAI/litellm/ai)

## Sources

- BerriAI/litellm: Read on November 5, 2026, at commit 7e4ad6e (https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/tree/7e4ad6eb333071d67c2eb03ce6468f89a0855027)
- chroma-core/chroma: Read on November 8, 2026, at commit 1a3ac2c (https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma/tree/1a3ac2c7c623adbd03ed2508dc27b98cdf26016d)

## What is your repo built with?

Any public repo, with no account: https://seerepo.com/r/owner/repo/built, with the owner and name it has on GitHub.