About
Pinecone is a fully managed vector database platform built to help teams develop knowledgeable AI applications at production scale. It provides fast similarity search, hybrid retrieval, namespaces for data partitioning, and real-time indexing for dynamic datasets.
The platform is designed for developers and enterprises that need reliable retrieval for use cases such as semantic search, recommendations, agents, and retrieval-augmented generation. Pinecone also offers hosted inference, reranking, and assistant capabilities, along with integrations across cloud providers, models, and frameworks.
- Purpose-built vector database for production AI workloads
- Serverless architecture with automatic scaling
- Advanced retrieval features including filters, rerankers, and namespaces
- Enterprise security, compliance, and operational controls
- Support for search, recommendations, agents, and RAG workflows
Free Tier Value
Pinecone’s Starter plan is a capped free tier, not an always-free unlimited plan. The page gives concrete included usage caps (2 GB storage, 2M write units/month, 1M read units/month, plus limited assistant/inference allowances), but it does not provide enough pricing-rate detail on the page to conservatively convert those caps into a reliable monthly dollar value, so FTV is set to null. The cheapest paid plan is Standard at a $50/month minimum usage, with Enterprise at a $500/month minimum usage.
What's included in the free tier
- Free Starter plan for trying out and small applications.
- Access to Pinecone Database On-Demand.
- Access to Pinecone Inference.
- Access to Pinecone Assistant.
- Console Metrics included.
- Community support via Discord included.
- Up to 2 GB storage.
- Up to 2 million write units per month.
- Up to 1 million read units per month.
- Up to 5 indexes.
- Up to 100 namespaces per index.
- Access to all available embedding models.
- Access to all reranking models except cohere-rerank-3.5.
- Up to 1 project.
- Up to 2 users.
- Access to encryption at rest and in transit.
- Access to user RBAC.
- Access to API key RBAC.
- Access to SOC 2 compliance.
- Access to GDPR compliance.
- Access to ISO 27001 compliance.
- United States region only.
- AWS cloud only.
See Pinecone pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Standard
- storage
- Unlimited
- write units
- Unlimited
- read units
- Unlimited
- projects
- 20 per project
- users
- Unlimited
- assistant storage
- Unlimited
- Pay-as-you-go for Database On-Demand, Inference, and Assistant usage
- Dedicated Read Nodes
- Choose your cloud and region
- Import from object storage
- Multiple projects and users
- SAML SSO
- User and API Key RBAC
- Backup and Restore
Enterprise
- storage
- Unlimited
- write units
- Unlimited
- read units
- Unlimited
- projects
- 100 per project
- users
- Unlimited
- assistant storage
- Unlimited
- Everything in Standard
- 99.95% uptime SLA
- Private Networking
- Customer Managed Encryption Keys
- Audit Logs
- Service Accounts
- Admin APIs
- HIPAA Compliance
Pricing extracted from Pinecone's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
