Pinecone Assistant

What it does

• Semantic search
• Recommendation systems
• AI agents
• Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)

Category

Retrieval, vector search and RAG

Users

Startups, Enterprises, Engineering teams building production AI applications

Public API

Available

Not yet disclosed: deployment options, platforms, languages and support channels.

Pricing

• Builder$20/month
• Standard$50/month
• Enterprise$500/month

Free Starter plan; Standard offers a 3 week trial with $300 credits.

Prices as published by Pinecone, checked Oct 2026.

Security and compliance

As reported by Pinecone. Ask for audit reports before you buy.

• SOC 2 Type IICertified
• ISO/IEC 27001Certified
• HIPAACompliant
• FIPS 140-2Compliant

• Encryption at rest and in transit
• AES-256 encryption
• TLS 1.2 protocol
• Audit logs
• Private endpoints
• Customer Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK)
• API key roles
• User RBAC
• SAML SSO
• MFA (Coming Soon)
• Deletion protection
• Cross-region replication
• Backup and restore
• 99.95% uptime SLA

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