Pinecone
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.
What it does
- Vector search
- Knowledge retrieval
- Model inference
Features 6
- Multi-mode search from one indexServes full-text, semantic, sparse-vector and hybrid search from a single index.
- Integrated embeddingUpsert and query with text; Pinecone generates the vectors server-side.
- Metadata filtering and rerankingNarrow results with metadata filters, then rerank for relevance.
- NamespacesKeeps each tenant’s data separate within one index.
- Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC)Deploy in your own cloud account for production.
- MCP serverConnects any MCP-compatible agent to Pinecone for search and index management.
Sources
- Pricing
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Pricing page read 2026-10-13: Starter free, Builder "$20/month flat", Standard (production), Enterprise; Pinecone Database on-demand usage.
- Description
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Official documentation · 13 Oct 2026
Pricing page: Pinecone Database, Inference, Assistant, "Dense, Sparse, and Full-Text Indexes"; Enterprise lists Bring Your Own Cloud and Private Endpoints.
- What it does
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Official documentation · 13 Oct 2026
Pricing page: Pinecone Database, Inference, Assistant, "Dense, Sparse, and Full-Text Indexes"; Enterprise lists Bring Your Own Cloud and Private Endpoints.
- Sold within
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Pricing page sells it on its own from a free Starter plan.
- Name
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Official documentation · 13 Oct 2026
Name as published on the product page.
- URL
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Official documentation · 13 Oct 2026
Product page, read 2026-10-13.
- Deployment
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Official documentation · 13 Oct 2026
The pages read state no deployment model beyond the vendor-run service; saas is recorded as the vendor-operated reading.
- Interfaces
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Official documentation · 13 Oct 2026
The pages read state no deployment model beyond the vendor-run service; saas is recorded as the vendor-operated reading.
- Modalities
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Official documentation · 14 Oct 2026
Page: 'Upsert and query with text instead of vectors'.
Also from Pinecone
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Pinecone Assistant API service
Pinecone Assistant answers questions about proprietary data and retrieves context snippets.
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Pinecone Nexus Infrastructure service
Pinecone Nexus compiles enterprise data into knowledge that agents query for typed answers with citations.
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