Pinecone Database

Retrieval, vector search and RAG · by Pinecone

Fully managed serverless vector database for AI search and retrieval, supporting dense, sparse, and full-text indexes with a 99.95% uptime SLA.

What it does

Fully managed serverless vector database for AI search and retrieval, supporting dense, sparse, and full-text indexes with a 99.95% uptime SLA.

  • 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
Not offered

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

Product insights

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Adoption

Who uses it?

“By adding Pinecone vector databases for semantic search and RAG to our unified platform, we have enriched the data set our users can draw insights from and introduced new features that help engineers take action on data faster.”

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  • By adding Pinecone vector databases for semantic search and RAG to our unified platform, we have enriched the data set our users can draw insights from and introduced new features that help engineers take action on data faster.
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  • Our launch of a first-to-market AI feature was made possible by Pinecone serverless.
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Customer satisfaction

Are customers happy with it?

“By adding Pinecone vector databases for semantic search and RAG to our unified platform, we have enriched the data set our users can draw insights from and introduced new features that help engineers take action on data faster.”

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  • By adding Pinecone vector databases for semantic search and RAG to our unified platform, we have enriched the data set our users can draw insights from and introduced new features that help engineers take action on data faster.
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  • Their technology enables our Q&A AI to deliver instant answers to millions of users, sourced from billions of documents.
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Value for money

Are the benefits worth the cost?

“Best of all, our move to their latest architecture has cut our costs by 60%, advancing our mission to make software toolmaking ubiquitous.”

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  • Best of all, our move to their latest architecture has cut our costs by 60%, advancing our mission to make software toolmaking ubiquitous.
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Popularity

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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 Nov 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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