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Haystack vs Pinecone

Haystack or Pinecone? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.

In inglese

In short

  • Both: Choice of models, Self-hosted, API, Builds agents and workflows, Search over your data
  • Only Haystack states: Traces and evaluates
  • Only Pinecone states: Runs models for you

Haystack

Open-source Python framework for building modular AI agents, RAG systems, search, and other LLM applications.

Plans

Studio

Free

  • 1 workspace
  • 1 user
  • 100 pipeline hours
  • 50 files (max 10MB per file)
  • 2 development pipelines
  • Cloud deployment; Community support on Discord

Enterprise

Price on request

  • Unlimited workspaces, users, files (no size limit)
  • Unlimited development and production (high availability) pipelines
  • Cloud or custom deployment
  • Dedicated account team, solution engineers and private Slack channel
  • SSO, Role-Based Access Control
  • Custom package

Prices checked 2026-09-25 by web search.

Capabilities

  • Choice of models — “Swap models and components without rewriting your system” source
  • Self-hosted — “Run Haystack in your own environment, get dedicated support or extend it with a cloud or self-hosted platform to test, deploy, and operate pipelines at scale.” source
  • API — “Serve pipelines as REST APIs or MCP servers with Hayhooks.” source
  • Builds agents and workflows — “Haystack is an open-source AI orchestration framework built by deepset , enabling Python developers to build production-ready AI agents, multimodal applications, and advanced RAG systems .” source
  • Search over your data — “Build highly performant RAG pipelines with a multitude of retrieval and generation strategies.” source
  • Traces and evaluates — “Use tracing , logging , and evaluation tools to monitor retrieval quality, latency, tool usage, and outputs and iteratively refine your system.” source

Latest updates

About Haystack

Pinecone

Pinecone is a managed vector database for semantic search, recommendations, RAG, and AI agent retrieval.

Plans

Starter

Free

  • Pinecone Database On-Demand
  • Pinecone Inference
  • Pinecone Assistant
  • Dense, Sparse, and Full-Text Indexes
  • Console Metrics
  • Community Support via Discord

Builder

  • $20/month flat
  • Everything in Starter
  • Increased usage limits
  • Choose your cloud and region
  • Multiple projects and users
  • Prometheus and Datadog monitoring
  • Includes Free support

Standard

  • $50/month min. usage
  • Everything in Builder
  • Pay-as-you-go for Database On-Demand, Inference, and Assistant Usage
  • Choose your cloud and region
  • Dedicated Read Nodes (DRN)
  • Import from object storage
  • Backup and Restore

Enterprise

  • $500/month min. usage
  • Everything in Standard
  • 99.95% Uptime SLA
  • Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC)
  • Private Endpoints
  • Customer Managed Encryption Keys
  • Audit Logs

Bring your own cloud

Price on request

  • Pinecone in your cloud account
  • Zero-access operations – no SSH, VPN, or inbound access required
  • Outbound-only operations with an auditable trail
  • Pro support included

Prices checked 2026-09-24 on the maker’s page.

Capabilities

  • Choice of models — “All available models” source
  • Self-hosted — “Bring-your-own-cloud (BYOC) runs Pinecone in your cloud account and VPC.” source
  • API — “Install the plugin in your agent, or call the API directly.” source
  • Runs models for you — “Pinecone Inference” source
  • Builds agents and workflows — “Build production-grade agent-based apps” source
  • Search over your data — “Search, upsert, and rerank from the same index.” source

Security

  • SOC 2 Type II — “Pinecone is SOC2 Type II certified, HIPAA compliant (with BAA available upon request), and GDPR-ready.” source
  • SOC 2 — “Pinecone is SOC2 Type II certified, HIPAA compliant (with BAA available upon request), and GDPR-ready.” source
  • HIPAA — “Pinecone is SOC2 Type II certified, HIPAA compliant (with BAA available upon request), and GDPR-ready.” source
  • Not trained on your data — “Your data remains isolated and protected, and is only used for servicing API calls.” source

Latest updates

About Pinecone