Pinecone
by Pinecone
Vector database for AI/RAG applications
Pricing
Free tier; Standard from $70/mo
Difficulty
beginner
Time to Start
1 hour
Privacy
high
Free Tier
Free: 1 index; 2 GB storage; 100K vectors; unlimited queries; shared infrastructure
Limits: Free: 2GB; Starter $70/mo: 10GB; Standard: custom; Enterprise: dedicated
When to upgrade: Storage limits; more indexes; dedicated infrastructure; multi-tenancy; enterprise support; SLA
Use Cases
Vector similarity search; RAG retrieval; semantic search; recommendation systems; anomaly detection
Technical Details
Type: api
Offline: No
API: Yes
Languages: N/A (vectors are language-agnostic)
Integrations: LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, Hugging Face, Haystack, every major AI framework
Ideal For
AI developersRAG builderssearch engineersML teamsenterprises building AI products
Supported Content
Vector embeddingsmetadata
Output Formats
JSON API responsessimilarity scoresfiltered results