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 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
