- Starting price
- $20/month flat
- Pricing
- Free plan
- Website
- www.pinecone.io
About Pinecone
Pinecone is a vector database designed for production-scale knowledgeable AI. It serves developers and teams building AI-powered search, recommendations, and retrieval-augmented generation workflows, helping them deliver fast, relevant results at scale.
Key Features
In practice, Pinecone stores and queries high-dimensional vectors, supports multi-tenant workloads, and keeps results fresh in production:
Embeddings & Vector Storage
Store and query high-dimensional vectors; choose from hosted models or bring your own vectors; scales to billions of vectors and high write throughput.
Real-Time Indexing & Serverless Scaling
Upserted vectors are indexed in real time; serverless architecture adjusts compute and memory without manual provisioning.
Recall & Reranking
Optimized recall for fast results; add rerankers to improve precision with an extra scoring stage.
Metadata Filters & Namespaces
Filter by metadata; create namespaces to isolate tenants in a multi-tenant setup.
Summary
Best for AI/ML engineers, data scientists, and product teams building knowledgeable search, recommendations, and retrieval-augmented generation workflows.
Pricing
View pricingPlans and prices as listed on pinecone.io as of Sep 24, 2026.
Starter
Free / N/A
- For trying out and for small applications
- Pinecone Database On-Demand
- Pinecone Inference
- Pinecone Assistant
- Dense, Sparse, and Full-Text Indexes
- Console Metrics
- Community Support via Discord
Builder
$20/month flat / monthly
- Everything in Starter
- Increased usage limits
- Choose your cloud and region
- Multiple projects and users
- Prometheus and Datadog monitoring
- Includes Free support
- Response SLAs available via Developer or Pro support add-on
Standard
$50/month min. usage / monthly
- Everything in Builder
- Pay-as-you-go for Database On-Demand, Inference, and Assistant Usage
- Choose your cloud and region
- Dedicated Read Nodes
- Import from object storage
- Backup and Restore
- RBAC
- SSO (SAML 2.0)
- HIPAA add-on available
- Includes Free support
- Response SLAs available via Developer or Pro support add-on
Enterprise
$500/month min. usage / monthly
- Everything in Standard
- 99.95% Uptime SLA
- Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC)
- Private Endpoints
- Customer Managed Encryption Keys
- Audit Logs
- Service Accounts
- SAML roles
- SCIM
- HIPAA Compliance
- Pro support included
