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Cohere vs Pinecone

Cohere 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 short

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

Cohere

Cohere provides enterprise AI models, APIs, search, document processing, and agentic workplace products.

Plans

North

Price on request

  • Intuitive interface
  • Purpose-built generative models
  • Intelligent search
  • AI agents for routine tasks and complex workflows

Compass

Price on request

  • Pre-built data connectors
  • Intelligent search
  • Document parsing
  • Managed index

Model Vault

  • $4.00 per hour per instance
  • $2,500 per month per instance
  • $5.00 per hour per instance
  • $3,250 per month per instance
  • $5.00 per hour per instance
  • $3,250 per month per instance
  • $5.00 per hour per instance
  • $3,250 per month per instance
  • $5.00 per hour per instance
  • $3,250 per month per instance
  • $10.00 per hour per instance
  • $6,500 per month per instance
  • $4.00 per hour per instance
  • $2,500 per month per instance
  • $7.00 per hour per instance
  • $4,300 per month per instance
  • Fully managed model deployment
  • No shared resources or multi-tenancy overhead
  • Seamless integration with Cohere North
  • Simple startup and self-serve model access
  • Fixed or Flex pricing plans available

Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.

Capabilities

  • Choice of models — “Your model selection reflects your relative prioritization of model performance and speed.” source
  • Self-hosted — “On-prem or isolated VPCs” source
  • API — “This API key will be available on the dashboard for you to copy, as well as in the dashboard section called “API Keys.”” source
  • Runs models for you — “Model Vault is our dedicated, fully managed platform to run Cohere models securely, at scale, and with guaranteed performance.” source
  • Search over your data — “Our intelligent search and discovery system designed to surface insights from across your business.” source

Security

  • SOC 2 Type II — “Our API platform is hosted on industry-leading cloud infrastructure and is SOC 2 Type II compliant” source
  • SOC 2 — “Our API platform is hosted on industry-leading cloud infrastructure and is SOC 2 Type II compliant” source

Latest updates

  • Announcing Cohere's North Small Translate (north-small-translate-1-0)

    North Small Translate is available through the free-tier Chat V2 API and as open weights in W4A16, FP8, and BF16 for non-commercial use.

  • Meet Cohere Parse (parse-v5.0)

    Parse turns documents into Markdown and extracts text, tables, lists, forms, images and captions, page boundaries, and visual element locations.

  • Meet Cohere Transcribe Arabic (cohere-transcribe-arabic-07-2026)

    Cohere Transcribe Arabic is fine-tuned using Arabic speech data and supports Arabic and English.

About Cohere

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