About Pinecone
Pinecone is the vector database designed for production-scale vector search. It is a fully managed, developer-friendly service that scales with AI workloads and serves developers building knowledge-heavy search and retrieval features.
Key Features
In practice, Pinecone helps teams ship fast, precise vector-based search over evolving datasets, with a familiar API and serverless scaling that reduces ops:
Embeddings
Choose from hosted models or bring your own vectors, enabling you to index and search with your preferred representations.
Optimized recall
Benchmark-validated algorithms maximize recall with low latency, even as your dataset grows.
Filters
Retrieve only vectors that match metadata filters, letting you constrain results by category, source, or tenant.
Real-time indexing
Upserted or updated vectors are indexed in real time, ensuring fresh reads without downtime.
Summary
Best for AI/ML teams building RAG apps, product/search teams powering knowledge bases, and ops teams running large-scale similarity search.
Pricing
View pricingStarter
Free / Monthly
- Ideal for trying out and for small applications
- Pinecone Database On-Demand
- Pinecone Inference
- Pinecone Assistant
- Console Metrics
- Community Support
Standard
$50/month minimum usage / Monthly
- For production applications at any scale
- 3 week trial, $300 credit
- Pay-as-you-go for Database On-Demand, Inference, and Assistant Usage
- Multiple projects and users
- SAML SSO
- Backup and Restore
- Prometheus metrics
- Includes Free Support
- Response SLAs available
Enterprise
$500/month minimum usage / Monthly
- For mission-critical production applications
- 99.95% Uptime SLA
- Private Networking
- Customer Managed Encryption Keys
- Audit Logs
- Service Accounts
- Admin APIs
- HIPAA Compliance
- Pro support included
Bring Your Own Cloud
Contact Us / Custom
- Everything in Enterprise
- Deploy Pinecone to your private cloud environment
- Premium support included
