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Pinecone vs Weaviate

Pinecone or Weaviate? 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, Builds agents and workflows, Search over your data
  • Only Weaviate states: Official SDKs

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

Weaviate

Weaviate is an open-source AI database for storing, searching, and retrieving vectorized data in self-hosted or managed deployments.

Plans

Free

Free

  • Always free — 1 cluster per user
  • 100,000 objects · 1 GB memory · 10 GB disk
  • 1 collection, up to 3 tenants
  • Embeddings (2,000 req/day) + Query Agent (1,000 req/mo)
  • Basic Support

Flex

  • Starts at $45 /mo
  • Pay-as-you-go, monthly, no commitment
  • Shared cloud cluster with full core DB toolkit + replication
  • Baseline security with RBAC
  • Highly available clusters — 99.5% uptime
  • Query Agent free tier + usage-based; Embeddings usage-based
  • Standard support — next-business-day Sev 1

Premium

Price on request

  • Prepaid contract with predictable spend
  • Choice of shared or dedicated deployment
  • Trusted reliability — up to 99.95% uptime
  • Global coverage on AWS, GCP & Azure
  • Query Agent free tier + usage-based; Embeddings usage-based
  • Enterprise support — as fast as 1-hour Sev 1 + dedicated Technical Account Team

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

Capabilities

  • Choice of models — “Seamlessly connect your data with models from a range of providers.” source
  • Self-hosted — “Weaviate’s open source AI database can be self-hosted or run as a managed service in Weaviate Cloud to reduce operational overhead.” source
  • API — “Use SDKs for Python, Go, TypeScript, or JavaScript, or connect to GraphQL or REST APIs.” source
  • Official SDKs — “Use SDKs for Python, Go, TypeScript, or JavaScript, or connect to GraphQL or REST APIs.” source
  • Runs models for you — “Access embedding models hosted in Weaviate Cloud. Simple, pay-as-you-go, GPU-powered.” source
  • Builds agents and workflows — “Pre-built agentic workflows that dynamically interact with your data in Weaviate to perform sync, async, and multi-step tasks.” source
  • Search over your data — “Store, index, and search high-dimensional vectors at any scale. The foundation for search, RAG, and agents.” source

Security

  • HIPAA — “Stay compliant with SOC 2, HIPAA, data privacy, and explainability.” source

Latest updates

About Weaviate