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Starter
Builder
Standard
Enterprise
Feature
Starter
Builder
Standard
Enterprise
Starter
For trying out and for small applications.
Start for Free
Free
View included usage
Pinecone Database
On-Demand
Pinecone
Inference
Pinecone
Assistant
Dense, Sparse, and Full-Text Indexes
Console Metrics
Community Support via
Discord
Example Starter Plan workloads
Builder
NEW
For solo developers and small teams.
Get Started
$20/month flat
Everything in Starter
Increased usage limits
Choose your cloud and region
Multiple projects and users
Prometheus and Datadog monitoring
Includes
Free support
Response SLAs available via
Developer
or
Pro support
add-on
Standard
POPULAR
For production applications at any scale.
Start Free Trial
$50/month
min. usage
You'll be charged a minimum of $50/month. Once your usage exceeds this amount, you'll pay as you go.
3 week trial includes $300 credits
Everything in Builder
Pay-as-you-go for Database On-Demand, Inference, and Assistant Usage
Choose your cloud and region
Dedicated Read Nodes (DRN)
Import from object storage
Backup and Restore
RBAC
SSO (SAML 2.0)
HIPAA add-on
Includes
Free support
Response SLAs available via
Developer
or
Pro support
add-on
Enterprise
For mission-critical production applications.
Get Started
Request Trial
$500/month
min. usage
You'll be charged a minimum of $500/month. Once your usage exceeds this amount, you'll pay as you go.
Everything in Standard
99.95% Uptime SLA
Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC)
Private Endpoints
Customer Managed Encryption Keys
Audit Logs
Service Accounts
SAML roles
SCIM
HIPAA Compliance
Pro support
included
Starter
For trying out and for small applications.
Start for Free
Free
View included usage
Pinecone Database
On-Demand
Pinecone
Inference
Pinecone
Assistant
Dense, Sparse, and Full-Text Indexes
Console Metrics
Community Support via
Discord
Example Starter Plan workloads
Builder
NEW
For solo developers and small teams.
Get Started
$20/month flat
Everything in Starter
Increased usage limits
Choose your cloud and region
Multiple projects and users
Prometheus and Datadog monitoring
Includes
Free support
Response SLAs available via
Developer
or
Pro support
add-on
Standard
POPULAR
For production applications at any scale.
Start Free Trial
$50/month
min. usage
You'll be charged a minimum of $50/month. Once your usage exceeds this amount, you'll pay as you go.
3 week trial includes $300 credits
Everything in Builder
Pay-as-you-go for Database On-Demand, Inference, and Assistant Usage
Choose your cloud and region
Dedicated Read Nodes (DRN)
Import from object storage
Backup and Restore
RBAC
SSO (SAML 2.0)
HIPAA add-on
Includes
Free support
Response SLAs available via
Developer
or
Pro support
add-on
Enterprise
For mission-critical production applications.
Get Started
Request Trial
$500/month
min. usage
You'll be charged a minimum of $500/month. Once your usage exceeds this amount, you'll pay as you go.
Everything in Standard
99.95% Uptime SLA
Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC)
Private Endpoints
Customer Managed Encryption Keys
Audit Logs
Service Accounts
SAML roles
SCIM
HIPAA Compliance
Pro support
included
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Pro support
included
Bring-your-own-cloud (BYOC)
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What you can build on the Starter plan
Recommendation engine
Given an e-commerce site with:
50K products
10KB metadata per product
Using 1024 dimensions embeddings
Starter plan gives you:
~ 44K recommendations per day
~ 2K product updates per day
Semantic search
Given a knowledge base of:
~ 30K documents
20KB document size on average
Using 1024 dimensions embeddings
Starter plan gives you:
~ 15k searches per day
~ 660 document updates per day
Forum answering bot (RAG)
Given a user forum with:
~ 10 categories
5KB post size on average
Using 1024 dimensions embeddings
Starter plan gives you:
~ 130K category-scoped chats per day
~ 3K messages indexed per day
Disclaimer:
Examples are illustrative only, not quotes or binding offers. Database usage only; excludes Inference (embeddings/reranking) and Assistant usage, as well as initial data import. Subject to change.
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Starter
Builder
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Database Features
Cloud Availability
AWS
AWS, Azure, GCP
AWS, Azure, GCP
AWS, Azure, GCP
Region Availability
us-east-1
All available regions
All available regions
All available regions
Dedicated Read Nodes
Index Types
Dense, Sparse, and Full-Text
Dense, Sparse, and Full-Text
Dense, Sparse, and Full-Text
Dense, Sparse, and Full-Text
Indexes
Up to 5
10 per project
20 per project
200 per project
Namespaces per Index
100
1,000
100,000
100,000
Embedding Models
All available models
All available models
All available models
All available models
Reranking Models
bge-reranker-v2-m3 only
bge-reranker-v2-m3 only
All available models
All available models
Console Index Metrics
Prometheus and Datadog Monitoring
Uptime SLA
99.95%
Pricing Dimensions
Database
Storage
Up to 2 GB
Up to 10 GB
Unlimited
$0.33/GB/mo
Unlimited
$0.33/GB/mo
Write Units
Up to 2M/mo
Up to 5M/mo
Unlimited
$4-$4.50 per million (varies by cloud and region)
Unlimited
$6-$6.75 per million (varies by cloud and region)
Read Units
Up to 1M/mo
Up to 2M/mo
Unlimited
$16-$18 per million (varies by cloud and region)
Unlimited
$24-$27 per million (varies by cloud and region)
Egress
Up to 1GB/mo
Up to 10GB/mo
Unlimited
$0.10/GB
100GB/mo included
Unlimited
$0.10/GB
100GB/mo included
Import from object storage
$0.25 per GB
$0.25 per GB
Backups
$0.10/GB/mo
$0.10/GB/mo
Restore from backup
$0.15 per GB
$0.15 per GB
Assistant
Document Limit
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Storage
1GB Storage included
3GB Storage included
Unlimited
$3/GB/mo
Unlimited
$3/GB/mo
Input Tokens
500k/mo included
Promo:
1M/mo, try
Pinecone Marketplace
2M/mo included
Unlimited
$8 per million
Unlimited
$8 per million
Output Tokens
300k/mo included
1M/mo included
Unlimited
$15 per million
Unlimited
$15 per million
Context Processed Tokens
500k/mo included
2M/mo included
Unlimited
$5 per million
Unlimited
$5 per million
Evaluation Processed Tokens
Unlimited
$8 per million
Unlimited
$8 per million
Evaluation Output Tokens
Unlimited
$15 per million
Unlimited
$15 per million
Ingestion Units
1,000/mo included
10k/mo included
$0.0005/ingestion unit
$0.001/ingestion unit for multi-modal
400 tokens/~300 words per ingestion unit
$0.0005/ingestion unit
$0.001/ingestion unit for multi-modal
400 tokens/~300 words per ingestion unit
Region
USA
Any
Any
Any
Inference - Embedding
llama-text-embed-v2
5M tokens/mo included
10M tokens/mo included
Unlimited
$0.16/M tokens
Unlimited
$0.16/M tokens
multilingual-e5-large
5M tokens/mo included
10M tokens/mo included
Unlimited
$0.08/M tokens
Unlimited
$0.08/M tokens
pinecone-sparse-english-v0
5M tokens/mo included
10M tokens/mo included
Unlimited
$0.08/M tokens
Unlimited
$0.08/M tokens
Inference - Reranking
bge-reranker-v2-m3
500 requests/mo included
1,000 requests/mo included
Unlimited
$2/1k requests
Unlimited
$2/1k requests
pinecone-rerank-v0
Unlimited
$2/1k requests
Unlimited
$2/1k requests
cohere-rerank-v3.5
Unlimited
$2/1k requests
Unlimited
$2/1k requests
Org Management
Projects
1
5
20
100
Users
Up to 2
Up to 5
Unlimited
Unlimited
Admin API
SSO (SAML 2.0)
SAML roles
SCIM
Service Accounts
Support
Free support included
View Details
Free support included
View Details
Pro support included
View Details
Security and Compliance
Encryption at rest and in transit
RBAC
Audit Logs
Private Endpoints
Customer Managed Encryption Keys
SOC 2
GDPR
ISO 27001
HIPAA
$190/mo
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