Pinecone

The vector database for building knowledgeable AI.

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Overview

Pinecone is a fully managed, serverless vector database purpose-built for production AI. It handles embedding storage, indexing and low-latency similarity search at scale so teams can build RAG and semantic search without managing infrastructure.

Features

—Fully managed serverless architecture
—Low-latency similarity search
—Metadata filtering
—Namespaces and multitenancy
—Automatic scaling
—Hybrid dense + sparse search

Pricing

freemiumFree plan available

Plan	Price	Notes
Starter	Free	Free tier for small projects.
Standard	Contact sales	Usage-based, from a monthly minimum.
Enterprise	Contact sales	Custom pricing and support.

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