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Mixedbread Embed vs Pinecone

Mixedbread Embed 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: Self-hosted, API, Runs models for you, Search over your data
  • Only Mixedbread Embed states: Knows the whole codebase, Command line, No code retained
  • Only Pinecone states: Choice of models, Builds agents and workflows

Mixedbread Embed

Legacy direct embedding APIs and models from Mixedbread; new integrations are directed to Mixedbread Search Stores.

Plans

Starter

Free

  • $5 in one-time credits
  • 3 workspace users
  • 10 stores
  • 100 requests / minute
  • Community Slack support

Scale

  • $20 / month
  • $20 of credits included every month
  • Unlimited workspace users
  • 10,000 stores
  • 1,200 queries/min, 360 ingestion/min
  • Automatic backups
  • Priority Slack support (same-day SLA)

Enterprise

Price on request

  • Volume-based discounts
  • Unlimited workspace users
  • Unlimited stores
  • Custom rate limits & SLA
  • Automatic backups, point-in-time recovery
  • Dedicated support team

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

Capabilities

  • Knows the whole codebase — “Upload PDFs, images, documents, code, or video in any format and instantly make it searchable with natural language queries.” source
  • Command line — “We built our CLI to streamline Store operations for developers.” source
  • Self-hosted — “Bring Your Own Cloud runs Mixedbread inside your own cloud account, keeping data and compute there.” source
  • No code retained — “Bring Your Own Bucket keeps your content in object storage you control, such as S3, while Mixedbread indexes and searches it without retaining it.” source
  • API — “Mixedbread is an API for integrating fast, multimodal search into your applications, agents, and AI systems.” source
  • Runs models for you — “They are separate from the LLM tokens Toast 1 uses for inference.” source
  • Search over your data — “Create a store (your search index) and upload any file format — PDFs, images, documents, code, videos.” source

Latest updates

About Mixedbread Embed

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