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Pinecone

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

Pinecone

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

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      Pricing

      Starting price
      $20/month
      Pricing checked
      2026-09-19

      Starter

      Free

      • Pinecone Database, Inference, and 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
      • Free support

      Standard

      $50/month min. usage

      • 3 week trial includes $300 credits
      • Everything in Builder
      • Pay-as-you-go for Database, Inference, and Assistant
      • Dedicated Read Nodes
      • Import from object storage
      • Backup and Restore
      • RBAC and SSO
      • HIPAA add-on

      Enterprise

      $500/month min. usage

      • Everything in Standard
      • 99.95% Uptime SLA
      • Bring Your Own Cloud
      • Private Endpoints
      • Customer Managed Encryption Keys
      • Audit Logs, Service Accounts, SAML roles, and SCIM
      • HIPAA Compliance
      • Pro support included
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