Pinecone

Sells Pinecone, a managed vector database for search and retrieval-augmented generation, with Pinecone Inference and Pinecone Assistant, on a free Starter plan and paid plans.

StageUndisclosed

Founded—

HeadquartersSan Francisco, USA

StatusPrivate

pinecone.io

Products

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

Pinecone API service Sold on its own

Managed vector database with dense, sparse and full-text indexes for search and RAG, plus Pinecone Inference and Pinecone Assistant, available on AWS, GCP and Azure.
Pinecone Assistant API service Sold on its own

Pinecone Assistant answers questions about proprietary data and retrieves context snippets.

Inside Pinecone

Pinecone Nexus Infrastructure service Paid add-on to the parent

Pinecone Nexus compiles enterprise data into knowledge that agents query for typed answers with citations.

Similar products 19

No sourced competitor yet: no filing, vendor document or measured-market report read so far names a rival for this company, so none is asserted. The companies below are the closest by what their products do.

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WeaviateUndisclosedPinecone and Weaviate Database both list vector search; scale not recorded for either.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare Q

QdrantUndisclosedPinecone and Qdrant Cloud Inference both list vector search; scale not recorded for either.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare S

SnowflakePublicPinecone and Cortex Search both list vector search; Pinecone's scale not recorded.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare A

AlgoliaUndisclosedPinecone and Algolia NeuralSearch and Generative Experiences both list vector search; scale not recorded for either.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare L

LlamaIndexUndisclosedPinecone and LlamaIndex Index both list vector search; scale not recorded for either.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare R

RedisUndisclosedPinecone and Redis LangCache both list vector search; scale not recorded for either.1 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare N

Neo4jLate-stagePinecone and Neo4j AuraDB both list vector search; Pinecone's scale not recorded; ships agent platform, application and 1 more rather than the same layer.2 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompare D

DatabricksLate-stagePinecone and Databricks AI Search both list vector search; Pinecone's scale not recorded.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare C

ClickHouseLate-stagePinecone and ClickHouse Cloud both list vector search; scale not recorded for either; ships agent platform, data service and 1 more rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompare L

LightOnPublicPinecone and LightOn API both list vector search; Pinecone's scale not recorded.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare CA

Contextual AILate-stagePinecone and Contextual AI RAG Component APIs both list vector search; scale not recorded for either.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare V

VectaraEarly-stageOverlaps on knowledge retrieval and vector search; scale not recorded for either.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare T

TwilioPublicPinecone and Enterprise Knowledge both list vector search; Pinecone's scale not recorded.2 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare E

EncordUndisclosedPinecone and Encord Index both list vector search; scale not recorded for either; ships AI agent, agent platform and 2 more rather than the same layer.1 of 3 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompare M

MicrosoftPublicOverlaps on knowledge retrieval, model inference and vector search; Pinecone's scale not recorded.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare C

CohereLate-stagePinecone and Compass both list vector search; Pinecone's scale not recorded.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare O

OraclePublicPinecone and Oracle Autonomous AI Database both list vector search; Pinecone's scale not recorded.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare T

TencentPublicPinecone and Tencent Cloud VectorDB both list vector search; Pinecone's scale not recorded.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare A

AmazonPublicPinecone and Amazon Kendra both list vector search; Pinecone's scale not recorded.3 of 3 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare

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