# NucliaDB vs Pinecone

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Pinecone

| Attribute | NucliaDB | Pinecone |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 55.8 (51% (medium)) | 75.1 (74% (medium)) |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"Progress Agentic RAG is a RAG-as-a-Service platform providing a centralized agentic knowledge layer for building AI experiences with enterprise-scale governance, compliance, and multi-agent capabilities. It is indexed under Vector Databases.","source":"https://nuclia.com","question":"What is NucliaDB?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"NucliaDB offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $700 per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://nuclia.com","question":"Is NucliaDB free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to NucliaDB. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://nuclia.com","question":"What platforms does NucliaDB support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Not fully, on what we have confirmed. NucliaDB is offered as cloud / SaaS and hybrid, and a hybrid deployment usually means some components can run on your own infrastructure while the rest stays vendor-hosted. We have not confirmed a completely self-hosted option, so check with the vendor if that is a requirement.","source":"https://nuclia.com","question":"Can NucliaDB be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR for NucliaDB. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as NucliaDB not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://nuclia.com","question":"What security certifications does NucliaDB have?","confidence":0.48}]` | `[{"answer":"A hosted vector database platform that enables developers to build AI-powered applications with vector search, retrieval-augmented generation, and semantic matching capabilities. It abstracts away infrastructure complexity with automatic scaling and pay-per-use pricing. It is indexed under Vector Databases.","source":"https://www.pinecone.io/pricing/","question":"What is Pinecone?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Pinecone offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $0.10 per egress. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.pinecone.io/pricing/","question":"Is Pinecone free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to Pinecone. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.pinecone.io/pricing/","question":"What platforms does Pinecone support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Pinecone, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://www.pinecone.io/pricing/","question":"Can Pinecone be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 15 integrations for Pinecone, including Azure OpenAI, GitHub CoPilot, Azure Marketplace, Microsoft Marketplace, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure and Google Drive, plus 7 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.pinecone.io/pricing/","question":"What does Pinecone integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR for Pinecone. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Pinecone not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.pinecone.io/security/","question":"What security certifications does Pinecone have?","confidence":0.7}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true}` |
| description.long | Progress Agentic RAG is a RAG-as-a-Service platform providing a centralized agentic knowledge layer for building AI experiences with enterprise-scale governance, compliance, and multi-agent capabilities. | A cloud-hosted vector database designed for AI applications, enabling fast semantic search and retrieval without performance degradation at scale. Supports dense, sparse, and full-text search with automatic indexing and built-in compliance for production use. |
| features.capabilities | `{"deployment":"managed","serverless":false,"storage_tier":"disk_backed","hybrid_search":true,"licence_class":"proprietary","multi_tenancy":true,"product_class":"dedicated_dbms","horizontal_scale":"sharded_distributed"}` | `{"ann_index":"HNSW, DiskANN","deployment":"managed","serverless":true,"consistency":"eventual","storage_tier":"tiered","hybrid_search":true,"licence_class":"proprietary","multi_tenancy":true,"product_class":"dedicated_dbms","full_text_bm25":true,"distance_metrics":"cosine","horizontal_scale":"sharded_distributed","metadata_filtering":"post_filter"}` |
| integrations.count | 1 | 8 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"AWS Marketplace"}]` | `[{"name":"Azure OpenAI"},{"name":"GitHub CoPilot"},{"name":"Azure Marketplace"},{"name":"Microsoft Marketplace"},{"name":"AWS","native":true,"category":"cloud_provider","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Google Cloud Platform","native":true,"category":"cloud_provider","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Microsoft Azure","native":true,"category":"cloud_provider","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Google Drive","native":true,"category":"data_source","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Slack","native":false,"category":"communication","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Vercel","native":false,"category":"hosting","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Claude","native":false,"category":"llm","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Datadog","native":true,"category":"monitoring","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Prometheus","native":true,"category":"monitoring","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"GCP","native":true},{"name":"Azure","native":true},{"name":"Cursor","native":false,"category":"ide"},{"name":"Vercel AI SDK","native":true,"category":"development","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Confluent","native":true,"category":"data_streaming","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Zapier","native":true,"category":"automation","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Discord","native":false,"category":"chat","direction":"inbound"}]` |
| market.availability | - | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Starter","summary":"$700/month","features":["RAG","Q&A","Community support"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":700,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Ideal for teams exploring AI-powered search and retrieval","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"tokens":"10,000/month","file_size":"750MB per file (text-based)","indexed_data":"5GB or 15k resources"}},{"free":false,"name":"Pro","summary":"$1,925/month","features":["RAG","Q&A","AI classification","Generative search","AI Assistant","Doc summarization","Community support + ZenDesk"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":1925,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Built for growing organizations that need more data capacity, integrations and AI capabilities","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"tokens":"10,000/month","file_size":"1.5GB per file (all file types)","indexed_data":"25GB or 80k resources"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom quote","features":["RAG","Q&A","AI classification","Generative search","AI Assistant","Doc summarization","Prompt LAB","RAB LAB","Private Slack Channel + ZenDesk"],"description":"Designed for large-scale deployments with unlimited scalability, on-prem options and advanced support","contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"file_size":"Unlimited","indexed_data":"Unlimited"}}],"summary":"From $700/month. 14-day free trial available.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://nuclia.com","retrievedAt":"2026-08-03T13:22:32.996Z","freeTrialDays":14,"startingPrice":{"amount":700,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Starter","summary":"Free","features":["Dense, Sparse, and Full-Text Indexes","Console Metrics","Community Support via Discord","USA region only"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For trying out and for small applications","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"egress":"1GB/mo","indexes":"5","storage":"2GB","namespaces":"100 per index","read_units":"1M/mo","write_units":"2M/mo","input_tokens":"500k/mo","output_tokens":"300k/mo","reranking_requests":"500/mo","inference_embedding_tokens":"5M/mo"}},{"free":false,"name":"Builder","summary":"$20/month flat","features":["Everything in Starter","Increased usage limits","Multiple projects and users","Any cloud and region","Prometheus and Datadog monitoring","Free support, with response SLAs via Developer/Pro support add-on"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":20,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For solo developers and small teams","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"egress":"10GB/mo","indexes":"10 per project","storage":"10GB","namespaces":"1,000 per index","write_units":"5M/mo","output_tokens":"1M/mo","reranking_requests":"1,000/mo","inference_embedding_tokens":"10M/mo"}},{"free":false,"name":"Standard","summary":"$50/month minimum + usage-based. 3-week free trial with $300 credits.","features":["Everything in Builder","Unlimited storage","Pay-as-you-go Database On-Demand, Inference, and Assistant usage","Dedicated Read Nodes","Import from object storage","Backup and Restore","RBAC","SSO (SAML 2.0)","HIPAA add-on available"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":50,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","unit":"storage","amount":0.33,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"million"},"kind":"metered","unit":"write_units","amount":4,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"million"},"kind":"metered","unit":"read_units","amount":16,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","unit":"egress","amount":0.1,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"For production applications at any scale","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"indexes":"20 per project","storage":"Unlimited","namespaces":"200 per index"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"$500/month minimum + usage-based","features":["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 included"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":500,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For mission-critical production applications","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"indexes":"200 per project","uptime_sla":"99.95%"}},{"free":false,"name":"Bring Your Own Cloud","summary":"Custom pricing","features":["Pinecone runs in customer's cloud account and VPC","Zero-access operations – no SSH, VPN, or inbound access","Outbound-only operations with auditable trail","AWS PrivateLink, GCP Private Service Connect, or Azure Private Link"],"description":"For organizations requiring the highest level of security and control","contactSales":true}],"addOns":[{"name":"HIPAA add-on","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":190,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"Free tier available. Paid plans from $20/month; production plans $50–$500/month minimum plus usage-based charges.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.pinecone.io/pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-09-03T18:00:54.251Z","freeTrialDays":21,"startingPrice":{"amount":20,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | high | mid |
| pricing.starting_price | - | `{"amount":20,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| reliability.sla_pct | - | 99.95 |
| reliability.status_page | - | yes |
| security.certifications | - | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","level":"Type II","status":"active"},{"name":"ISO 27001","status":"active"},{"name":"HIPAA","status":"active"}]` |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | - | yes |
| security.iso27001 | yes | yes |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| security.trust_center | - | https://www.pinecone.io/security/ |

## Capabilities (Vector Databases)

| Capability | NucliaDB | Pinecone |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Managed | Managed |
| Serverless / consumption pricing | ✗ | ✓ |
| **Index** |  |  |
| ANN index (HNSW / IVF / DiskANN / ScaNN / flat) | - | HNSW, DiskANN |
| Distance metrics (cosine / dot / Euclidean) | - | cosine |
| **Query** |  |  |
| Metadata filtering | - | Post-filter |
| Hybrid search (dense + sparse fusion) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Built-in BM25 / lexical | - | ✓ |
| **Storage** |  |  |
| Quantization | - | - |
| On-disk vs in-memory | Disk-backed | Tiered |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Multi-tenancy (namespaces / collections / tenants) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Horizontal scale | Sharded / distributed | Sharded / distributed |
| **Consistency** |  |  |
| Consistency | - | Eventual |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Licence class | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| **Classification** |  |  |
| Purpose-built vs feature-of-parent | Dedicated DBMS | Dedicated DBMS |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T18:31:08.453Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*