Available worldwide
What is Pinecone?
Pinecone is a fully managed vector database built for AI. Writes are instantly searchable, indexing is automatic, and queries stay fast at any scale.
Pinecone pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
From $20/month. Free tier available. Standard plan includes 3-week trial with $300 credits.
Starter
FreeFor 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
For solo developers and small teams
- Everything in Starter
- Increased usage limits
- Choose your cloud and region
- Multiple projects and users
- Prometheus and Datadog monitoring
- Free support
- Response SLAs available via add-on
Standard
For production applications at any scale
- Everything in Builder
- Pay-as-you-go beyond minimum
- Dedicated Read Nodes (DRN)
- Import from object storage
- Backup and Restore
- RBAC
- SSO (SAML 2.0)
- HIPAA add-on
- Free support
Enterprise
For mission-critical production applications
- 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
Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC)
Contact salesRun Pinecone in your own cloud account with zero-access operations
What Pinecone does
The capabilities that matter for vector databases, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Deployment
- Managed
- Serverless / consumption pricing
- ✓
- ANN index (HNSW / IVF / DiskANN / ScaNN / flat)
- -
- Distance metrics (cosine / dot / Euclidean)
- -
- Metadata filtering
- Pre-filter
- Hybrid search (dense + sparse fusion)
- ✓
- Built-in BM25 / lexical
- ✓
- Quantization
- -
- On-disk vs in-memory
- -
- Multi-tenancy (namespaces / collections / tenants)
- ✓
- Horizontal scale
- Sharded / distributed
- Consistency
- -
- Licence class
- Proprietary
- Purpose-built vs feature-of-parent
- Dedicated DBMS
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Self-hosted
Integrations (50)
Independently observed- Agent Skills
- Cursor Plugin
- Claude Code Plugin
- GitHub Copilot
- Airbyte
- Amazon Bedrock
- Amazon Sagemaker
- AWS Marketplace
- Google Cloud Marketplace
- Microsoft Marketplace
- Cohere
- OpenAI
- Hugging Face
- Databricks
- Snowflake
- Datadog
- New Relic
- LangChain
- Llama Index
- Haystack
- Genkit
- n8n
- Zapier
- Terraform
- Pulumi
- Box
- Confluent
- Unstructured
- Vercel
- OctoAI
- Gemini CLI Extension
- Anyscale
- Apify
- Aryn
- Cloudera AI
- Context Data
- Datavolo
- Estuary
- FlowiseAI
- Fleak
- Gathr
- HoneyHive
- Instill AI
- Jina
- Langtrace
- Matillion
- Nexla
- Nuclia
- Redpanda
- StreamNative
Pinecone alternatives
Other vector databases we track, ranked by the same independent score.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Pinecone, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security Posture | 80 | 0.14 | 10.9 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 67 | 0.13 | 8.7 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 98 | 0.08 | 7.4 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 100 | 0.06 | 6.1 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 51 | 0.06 | 3.1 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 50 | 0.04 | 2.3 | ✓ |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"deployment":"managed","serverless":true,"hybrid_search":true,"licence_class":"proprietary","multi_tenancy":true,"product_class":"dedicated_dbms","full_text_bm25":true,"horizontal_scale":"sharded_distributed","metadata_filtering":"pre_filter"} | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 56 | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | {"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]} | highsource · 2026-08-05 · 75% |