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www.pinecone.io · Vector databases
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Managed vector database with a free Starter tier, hybrid dense/sparse search, and usage-based Standard plans.

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Entry paid planBuilder plan: $20/month flat, for solo developers and small teams. Standard plan is usage-based with a $50/month minimum.
RegionsStarter is AWS us-east-1 only. Builder, Standard and Enterprise get all available regions across AWS, Azure and GCP.
Free tierYes
CategoryVector databases

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 23 criteria comparedSources last checked

Pinecone pricing at a glance

Entry paid plan
Builder plan: $20/month flat, for solo developers and small teams source ↗
Pricing model
Usage-based on the Standard plan, with a $50/month minimum before pay-as-you-go charges apply source ↗
What the free plan includes
A first index at no charge, then pay-as-you-go source ↗

First line of each sourced value. The full text is in Pinecone pricing below. How this free offer stacks up: cloud free tiers compared.

01.Evaluation guide

Who it suits

Teams that want a fully managed vector search product with hybrid search and metadata filtering built in, and don't want to operate the underlying index themselves.

Consider something else if…

Cost predictability at small scale matters more than managed convenience — the $50/month Standard minimum applies before any pay-as-you-go usage starts.

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Pinecone pricing

5 criteria
Free tierYes
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Kind of free offerFree tier
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  • Pinecone Pricing ↗

    “Starter For trying out and for small applications. Start for Free Free [...] Database Storage Up to 2 GB Up to 10 GB Unlimited $0.33/GB/mo”

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What the free plan includesA first index at no charge, then pay-as-you-go. Pinecone no longer publishes the Starter tier's storage and unit limits on this page.
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Entry paid planBuilder plan: $20/month flat, for solo developers and small teams. Standard plan is usage-based with a $50/month minimum.
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  • Pinecone Pricing ↗

    “Builder NEW For solo developers and small teams. Get Started $20/month flat [...] Standard POPULAR For production applications at any scale. Start Free Trial $50/month min. usage You'll be charged a minimum of $50/month. Once your usage exceeds this amount, you'll pay as you go.”

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Pricing modelUsage-based on the Standard plan, with a $50/month minimum before pay-as-you-go charges apply.
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Infrastructure

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RegionsStarter is AWS us-east-1 only. Builder, Standard and Enterprise get all available regions across AWS, Azure and GCP.
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  • Pinecone Pricing ↗

    “Cloud Availability AWS AWS, Azure, GCP AWS, Azure, GCP AWS, Azure, GCP Region Availability us-east-1 All available regions All available regions All available regions”

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Uptime SLA99.95%, listed only against Enterprise (from $500/month minimum usage). Starter, Builder and Standard publish no uptime SLA.
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  • Pinecone Pricing ↗

    “everything in Standard 99.95% uptime SLA Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) Private Endpoints Customer Managed Encryption Keys”

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Vector

4 criteria
Max vector dimensionsUp to 20000 dimensions per dense vector field (minimum 1), per the create-index schema in API version 2026-07.
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Similarity metrics supportedcosine, dotproduct or euclidean, chosen per dense vector field when the index is created.
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Hybrid search (vector + keyword)Supported — combine a keyword signal (BM25 or sparse) with a dense signal at query time, often with reranking.
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  • Pinecone documentation ↗

    “To get the best of both, use hybrid search — combine a keyword signal (BM25 or sparse) with a dense signal at query time, often with reranking.”

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Metadata filteringSupported — Pinecone indexes metadata so a query can include a metadata filter to limit the search.
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Support

2 criteria
Support on entry paid planCommunity support via Discord on Starter; free support on Builder, the entry paid plan.
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  • Pinecone Pricing ↗

    “Community Support via Discord [...] Prometheus and Datadog monitoring Includes Free support Response SLAs available via Developer or Pro support add-on”

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Response time commitmentNot included on any plan: response SLAs are sold separately as a Developer or Pro support add-on.
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Compliance

10 criteria
SOC 2SOC 2 Type II, audited annually, covering security, availability and confidentiality controls.
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ISO 27001ISO 27001:2022 certified; annual surveillance audit completed and certification reported as fully active. From the Trust Center updates feed, posted April 1, 2026.
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HIPAAHIPAA: BAA available on request for covered entities and business associates.
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GDPR / data residencyGDPR: data processing agreements, EU data residency and right-to-erasure support.
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PCI DSSMaster Subscription Agreement forbids using the Services to process credit or debit card numbers, which it defines as Restricted Information. The only carve-out is HIPAA Information where an Order contemplates it and a BAA is executed.
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  • Pinecone Master Subscription Agreement ↗

    “Customer must not use the Services to process any Restricted Information. [...] “ Restricted Information ” means the following categories of Personal Information: (a) patient, medical, or other protected health information regulated by the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“ HIPAA Information ”); (b) credit, debit, bank account, or other financial account numbers”

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Encryption at restStored data encrypted with the 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES-256).
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Customer-managed keysCMEK using keys you manage in AWS KMS on Pinecone-managed projects; requires a Pinecone Enterprise plan.
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  • Configure CMEK - Pinecone Docs ↗

    “CMEK allows you to encrypt your data using keys that you manage in your cloud provider's key management system (KMS). Pinecone supports CMEK using Amazon Web Services (AWS) KMS. [...] A Pinecone Enterprise plan”

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Role-based access controlRole-based access control over users, service accounts and API keys; roles managed in the console or via the Admin API.
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  • Security overview - Pinecone Docs ↗

    “Pinecone uses role-based access controls (RBAC) to manage access to resources. Service accounts, API keys, and users are all principals [...] You can manage roles in the Pinecone console or programmatically with the Admin API.”

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Private networking / VPCPrivate Endpoints via AWS PrivateLink or Azure Private Link, up to 10 per project; requires a Pinecone Enterprise plan.
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  • Configure Private Endpoints - Pinecone Docs ↗

    “This page describes how to create and use Private Endpoints to connect to Pinecone through AWS PrivateLink or Azure Private Link, keeping your traffic private from the public internet. [...] A Pinecone Enterprise plan [...] Private Endpoints are configured at the project-level and you can add up to 10 endpoints per project.”

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Dedicated infrastructureDedicated reserved-compute deployment, plus BYOC: a privately managed Pinecone region inside your own AWS, Azure or Google Cloud account.
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Pinecone pricing questions

How much does Pinecone cost?

Builder plan: $20/month flat, for solo developers and small teams. Standard plan is usage-based with a $50/month minimum.

Pinecone Pricing · read

How does Pinecone charge?

Usage-based on the Standard plan, with a $50/month minimum before pay-as-you-go charges apply.

Pinecone Pricing · read

Does Pinecone have a free tier?

Yes. A first index at no charge, then pay-as-you-go. Pinecone no longer publishes the Starter tier's storage and unit limits on this page.

Pinecone Pricing · read

What uptime does Pinecone guarantee?

99.95%, listed only against Enterprise (from $500/month minimum usage). Starter, Builder and Standard publish no uptime SLA.

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