# LanceDB vs Pinecone

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Pinecone

| Attribute | LanceDB | Pinecone |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 59.2 (43% (low)) | 76.7 (72% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | - |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 453 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 11,284 | - |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | 1,350,674 | - |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A purpose-built lakehouse designed for AI applications that unifies storage, indexing, and retrieval of multimodal data (text, images, videos, and more) at petabyte scale. Enables fast vector search, metadata filtering, and feature engineering workflows for machine learning workloads without data synchronization overhead. | A fully managed platform that indexes and searches high-dimensional vector data, enabling AI applications to rapidly retrieve relevant information from large datasets without infrastructure overhead. |
| features.capabilities | `{"deployment":"self_hosted","storage_tier":"disk_backed","hybrid_search":true,"licence_class":"permissive_oss","multi_tenancy":true,"product_class":"dedicated_dbms","full_text_bm25":true,"horizontal_scale":"sharded_distributed","metadata_filtering":"post_filter"}` | `{"deployment":"managed","serverless":true,"consistency":"eventual","storage_tier":"tiered","hybrid_search":true,"licence_class":"proprietary","multi_tenancy":true,"product_class":"dedicated_dbms","horizontal_scale":"sharded_distributed","metadata_filtering":"post_filter"}` |
| integrations.count | 15 | 4 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"LangChain"},{"name":"LlamaIndex"},{"name":"DuckDB"},{"name":"Apache Arrow"},{"name":"Pandas"},{"name":"Polars"},{"name":"CrewAI"},{"name":"Hugging Face"},{"name":"Apache Fluss"},{"name":"Ray"},{"name":"Volcano Engine"},{"name":"Voxel51"},{"name":"Continue"},{"name":"OpenClaw"},{"name":"LeRobot"}]` | `[{"name":"Azure OpenAI"},{"name":"GitHub CoPilot"},{"name":"Azure Marketplace"},{"name":"Microsoft Marketplace"}]` |
| language.primary | Rust | - |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | - |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | - | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"Free tier","features":["Single P1 pod","Production-ready","Secure","Fully managed"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Single P1 pod suitable for prototyping and small workloads","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"vectors":"~1000000","query_latency_p99":"~100ms"}},{"free":false,"name":"Standard","summary":"$0.070/hour (P1) or $0.075/hour (S1 storage-optimized) per pod","features":["Configurable pod types and count","Adjustable replicas","Priority support (24-hour response)","Multi-AZ deployment"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"P1 pod per hour"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.07,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"S1 pod per hour"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.075,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Scalable option with choice of P1 performance or S1 storage-optimized pods","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Dedicated","summary":"Custom pricing","features":["Dedicated cluster","Dedicated GCP or AWS environment","Any region deployment","High-priority support (4-hour response)","Multi-AZ with hands-off resilience"],"description":"Custom deployment for large-scale or specialized compliance and deployment requirements","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free tier with single P1 pod. Metered usage: $0.070-0.075/hour per pod for Standard plans.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.pinecone.io/blog/v2-pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T12:15:19.568Z","startingPrice":{"amount":0.07,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | - | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | - | low |
| pricing.transparent | - | yes |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.38.0-beta.9","date":"2026-08-25T10:32:32Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.38.0-beta.9"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.38.0-beta.8","date":"2026-08-25T06:26:50Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.38.0-beta.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.38.0-beta.10","date":"2026-08-25T10:37:30Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.38.0-beta.10"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.38.0-beta.7","date":"2026-08-24T21:09:33Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.38.0-beta.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.38.0-beta.6","date":"2026-08-23T17:33:36Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.38.0-beta.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.38.0-beta.5","date":"2026-08-23T08:08:08Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.38.0-beta.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.38.0-beta.4","date":"2026-08-22T16:39:04Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.38.0-beta.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.38.0-beta.3","date":"2026-08-21T10:26:13Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.38.0-beta.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.38.0-beta.2","date":"2026-08-19T01:59:45Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.38.0-beta.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.38.0-beta.1","date":"2026-08-17T16:57:15Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.38.0-beta.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.38.0-beta.0","date":"2026-08-14T01:10:07Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.38.0-beta.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.37.1","date":"2026-08-10T07:55:09Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.37.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.37.1-beta.2","date":"2026-08-10T06:31:02Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.37.1-beta.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.37.1-beta.1","date":"2026-08-07T21:16:26Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.37.1-beta.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.37.1-beta.0","date":"2026-07-29T07:12:53Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.37.1-beta.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.33.0","date":"2026-07-28T21:32:52Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.33.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/python-v0.36.0","date":"2026-07-28T21:33:04Z","type":"stable","version":"python-v0.36.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.33.0-beta.0","date":"2026-07-24T19:34:17Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.33.0-beta.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.32.0-beta.3","date":"2026-07-24T22:04:27Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.32.0-beta.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/python-v0.36.0-beta.0","date":"2026-07-24T19:34:22Z","type":"stable","version":"python-v0.36.0-beta.0"}]` | - |
| reliability.sla_pct | - | 99.95 |
| reliability.status_page | - | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | yes |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=lancedb&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | - |

## Capabilities (Vector Databases)

| Capability | LanceDB | Pinecone |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Self-hosted | Managed |
| Serverless / consumption pricing | - | ✓ |
| **Index** |  |  |
| ANN index (HNSW / IVF / DiskANN / ScaNN / flat) | - | - |
| Distance metrics (cosine / dot / Euclidean) | - | - |
| **Query** |  |  |
| Metadata filtering | Post-filter | 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 | Permissive OSS | Proprietary |
| **Classification** |  |  |
| Purpose-built vs feature-of-parent | Dedicated DBMS | Dedicated DBMS |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T17:33:56.690Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*