Managed serverless vector database engineered for high-performance AI, embeddings, and RAG.
Technical Overview & Architecture
Pinecone is the leading cloud-native vector database purpose-built for AI applications, semantic search, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). Featuring a serverless architecture, Pinecone decouples vector indexing compute from storage, allowing developers to query billions of high-dimensional vector embeddings with ultra-low millisecond latency and pay-per-query cost efficiency.
Pricing Breakdown
Transparent tiers and feature allotments for engineering teams.
Starter
$0/mo
- 1 serverless index
- Up to 2GB storage (~100k vectors)
- Shared compute
- Community support
Most Popular
Standard
Usage-based
- Pay-per-read/write units
- $0.33/GB storage/mo
- Unlimited serverless indexes
- Standard support
Enterprise
Custom
- SOC2 Type II & HIPAA
- Dedicated VPC endpoints
- 99.99% uptime SLA
- 24/7 priority support
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