Pinecone
by Pinecone
The Launchpad take
Verdict
Vector database for AI/RAG applications
Vector similarity search; RAG retrieval; semantic search; recommendation systems; anomaly detection
Best for
AI developersRAG builderssearch engineersML teamsenterprises building AI products
Quick facts
- Free tier
- Starter Free: on-demand database, inference, assistant; usage caps (e.g. ~2 GB storage)
- Starting price
- $20/mo flat
- Platforms
- api
- Company
- Pinecone
Pricing
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Starter Free | See pricing |
| Builder | $20/mo flat |
| Standard | $50/mo minimum then pay-as-you-go |
| Enterprise | $500/mo minimum |
Prices checked 2026-10-14
Key capabilities
Works with
- Vector embeddings
- metadata
Outputs
- JSON API responses
- similarity scores
- filtered results
Get it
How to use Pinecone on phones and tablets.
- Mobile web: Works in a mobile browser (responsive or dedicated mobile site).
Technical details
- Offline
- No
- API
- Yes
- Languages
- N/A (vectors are language-agnostic)
- Difficulty
- Beginner-friendly
- Privacy
- High
- Time to productivity
- 1 hour
- Upgrade when
- Storage limits; more indexes; dedicated infrastructure; multi-tenancy; enterprise support; SLA
- Integrations
- LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI, Anthropic
more
Cohere, Hugging Face, Haystack, every major AI framework
Sources & notes
- Checked 2026-10-14 (from catalog copy)