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Pinecone
Pinecone is a managed vector database for semantic search, recommendations, RAG, and AI agent retrieval.
Pinecone stores and searches dense vectors, sparse vectors, and text for AI applications. It provides automatic indexing, metadata filtering, semantic and full-text search, hosted inference, and Pinecone Assistant.
Developers use it for search, recommendation systems, retrieval-augmented generation, and agent applications. The service has a free Starter tier, while higher plans add increased limits, monitoring, governance, support, and dedicated infrastructure. Usage beyond included allowances is billed separately.
Features
- Managed vector database with automatic indexing
- Semantic search with dense vector indexes
- Sparse and BM25 full-text search in the same index
- Metadata filtering and text-match filters
- Hosted embedding and reranking inference
- Pinecone Assistant for grounded answers over documents
- Console metrics, namespaces, imports, backups, and restore
- REST APIs, SDKs, and command-line workflows
Use cases
- Build semantic search for product catalogs or enterprise documents
- Create recommendation systems using vector similarity
- Retrieve context for retrieval-augmented generation applications
- Give AI agents access to searchable business data
- Match exact SKUs, order IDs, error codes, and case numbers
- Create document-based assistants with grounded responses
Pros
Cons
Latest updates
- New embedding models for document indexes
Document indexes can now embed text with three more hosted models: gemini-embedding-2, text-embedding-3-small, and text-embedding-3-large.
- Twice the included embedding tokens through December 31
Starter and Builder organizations get twice the included tokens on every embedding model.
- Released pg_pinecone
pg_pinecone brings Pinecone’s vector search into the Postgres database you already run, without changes to your tables or pgvector queries.
- Released Pinecone Terraform Provider v5.1.0 (v5.1.0)
Adds integrated embedding for document indexes and on-demand read capacity for BYOC indexes.
- On-demand indexes in BYOC
BYOC now supports on-demand indexes in addition to dedicated read nodes indexes.
Capabilities
- Agent that edits files — “Build production-grade agent-based apps” source
- Command line — “Monitor performance, explore your data, and manage indexes from a clean, fast console — or stay in the terminal.” 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 — “Database stores and retrieves data.” source
- Traces and evaluates — “Evaluation Processed Tokens” source
Get it
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
Pricing
- Starting price
- $20/mo
- Prices checked
- 2026-11-06
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
- 3 week trial includes $300 credits
- Everything in Builder
- Pay-as-you-go for Database On-Demand, Inference, and Assistant Usage
- Dedicated Read Nodes (DRN)
- Backup and Restore
- RBAC
Enterprise
- $500/month min. usage
- Everything in Standard
- 99.95% Uptime SLA
- Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC)
- Private Endpoints
- Customer Managed Encryption Keys
- Pro support included
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