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Pinecone pricing
Pinecone publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Freemium
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Yes
Pinecone plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 2 | Entry tier |
| Standard | $70/month | 2 | +$70/month, 2 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Free
FreeThe entry tier. It covers 1 index, 100k vectors.
Standard
$70/monthOver Free, this tier adds:
- Multiple indexes
- Higher capacity
Where Pinecone stops being free
Free, Free
- 1 index
- 100K vectors
Standard, $70/month
The first thing you pay for:
- Multiple indexes
- Higher capacity
What the product covers
The full Pinecone feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- Vector similarity search
- Metadata filtering
- Namespace partitioning
- Real-time updates
- Hybrid search
Integrations
- OpenAI
- Cohere
- LangChain
- LlamaIndex
- Hugging Face
Platform
- Web support
People bring Pinecone in for storing and querying vector embeddings for semantic search, backing retrieval augmented generation over a document corpus. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Pinecone are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for Pinecone
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between Free and $70/month, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Pinecone runs on web, and is published by Pinecone of San Francisco, California. The full record is on the Pinecone review.
Pinecone pricing questions
- How much does Pinecone cost?
- Pinecone publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Free up to $70/month for Standard. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Pinecone have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers 1 index, 100k vectors. Paying starts at $70/month for Standard.
- What is the difference between Free and Standard on Pinecone?
- Standard costs $70/month against Free, and adds multiple indexes, higher capacity.
- What am I actually paying for with Pinecone?
- The record lists 11 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for storing and querying vector embeddings for semantic search, backing retrieval augmented generation over a document corpus.
- Does Pinecone charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Pinecone prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Pinecone against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Pinecone to make a useful price comparison.