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  1. Negative

    Christopher Hertel (chr-hertel), Automattic (GitHub profile)

    GitHub issue by chr-hertelGitHub issue

    composer audit flags every installation of symfony/ai-pinecone-store because the PHP client it uses, probots-io/pinecone-php, pulls in Saloon versions with three advisories, even where the affected features are not used.

    Published Oct 26, 2026self-described: Maintaining Symfony AI's Pinecone store package

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  2. Negative

    kdang-at-safe, Safe Software (GitHub profile)

    GitHub issue by kdang-at-safeGitHub issue

    In v10, fetch, paginated listing and namespace listing by prefix find nothing when an ID or namespace contains a space, and raise no error.

    Published Oct 21, 2026self-described: Upgrading to Python SDK v10

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  3. Negative

    Oleh Zaporozhets (oleh-zaporozhets), GitHub issue reporter

    GitHub issue by oleh-zaporozhetsGitHub issue

    Pinecone removed a corrupted file from an Assistant on its own, and when his application then deleted the file, the TypeScript SDK threw an unexpected SyntaxError.

    Published Oct 16, 2026self-described: An application syncing files with Pinecone Assistant

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  4. Negative

    Pathumi Kaveesha (Pathumi-Kaveesha), GitHub contributor

    GitHub pull request by Pathumi-KaveeshaGitHub pull request

    Smart Search stored WSO2 content in Pinecone, an external third-party vector database, which raised a data-handling concern because WSO2 material was leaving WSO2's own infrastructure.

    Published Oct 7, 2026self-described: WSO2's internal Pitstop Smart Search

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  5. Negative

    Nguyen Chi Cong, Engineering Manager at PhoenixDX (his own site)

    Practitioner blog post by Nguyen Chi CongPractitioner blog post

    His team ripped Pinecone out of production for pgvector: p99 latency on the retrieval call dropped by about a third once a network hop was gone, and on-call pages for Pinecone rate limits and timeouts stopped.

    Published Sep 13, 2026self-described: Retrieval for an internal agent product over about 40,000 chunks

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  6. Negative

    Philip Redford (philipredford), machine learning and AI engineering (GitHub profile)

    GitHub issue by philipredfordGitHub issue

    Integrated sparse indexes managed by the Terraform provider never reach a converged state, and any in-place update to them, such as a tags change, fails with a 400 from the API, in provider v3.0.0 and v4.0.0.

    Published Aug 27, 2026self-described: Managing Pinecone with Terraform

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  7. Negative

    micah-press, GitHub issue reporter

    GitHub issue by micah-pressGitHub issue

    Considered writing a stand-alone HTTP client around a gap in the Java client, but did not want its maintenance cost.

    Published Jun 4, 2026self-described: A Java service using the Pinecone client

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  8. Mixed

    Darryl Ruggles, AWS Serverless Hero and Principal Cloud Solutions Architect at Ciena (his own site)

    Practitioner blog post by Darryl RugglesPractitioner blog post

    Across 200 measured queries on Pinecone's free Starter tier, one p99 outlier reached 672ms, which he puts down to the shared Starter infrastructure.

    Published Jun 1, 2026self-described: Benchmarking vector stores from an AWS-first view

    Not counted

    AWS Serverless Hero (AWS community program); AWS sells the competing stores he benchmarks (S3 Vectors, OpenSearch Serverless, Aurora pgvector). Kept in the record; it takes part in no figure.

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  9. Positive

    Product Manager, PeerSpot reviewer

    PeerSpot review by reviewer2846073PeerSpot review

    Would improve Pinecone by reducing its cost, which is significantly higher than MongoDB or another regular database. The stored page states no incentive for this review.

    Published May 30, 2026self-described: Product manager at a tech vendor, per PeerSpot's reviewer line

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  10. Negative

    M1ha Shvn (M1ha-Shvn), back-end architect at Dashly (GitHub profile)

    GitHub issue by M1ha-Shvn: Dry-running a metadata update in the Python SDKGitHub issue

    Calling a metadata update with dry_run set updated the index anyway, and the response gave no matched record count.

    Published May 18, 2026self-described: Dry-running a metadata update in the Python SDK

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  11. Negative

    M1ha Shvn (M1ha-Shvn), back-end architect at Dashly (GitHub profile)

    GitHub issue by M1ha-Shvn: Updating records by metadata filter in the Python SDKGitHub issue

    Could not update vectors by metadata filter: the Python side ran, but the Pinecone API threw an exception that an ID is required. Pinecone replied on Apr 20, 2026 that the index ran on its legacy pod-based architecture, where update by metadata is not supported.

    Published Apr 10, 2026self-described: Updating records by metadata filter in the Python SDK

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  12. Negative

    Matt Walker (matthewwalk), MLOps Engineer at Numerator (GitHub profile)

    GitHub issue by matthewwalkGitHub issue

    A CLI query on the default namespace returned no rows, while the same query over REST returned the expected neighbours, which he traces to how the CLI passes or defaults the namespace.

    Published Apr 10, 2026self-described: Querying through the Pinecone CLI

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  13. Mixed

    Associate Director, PeerSpot reviewer

    PeerSpot review by reviewer2812962PeerSpot review

    Finds Pinecone a bit expensive against free open-source FAISS and Milvus and against Weaviate at scale, and puts the team's cost at around US$100 to US$150 a month without exact figures. PeerSpot marks the review as incentivized: the reviewer was offered a gift card.

    Published Mar 30, 2026self-described: Associate director at a pharma or biotech company with 10,001+ employees, per PeerSpot's reviewer line

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  14. Negative

    Head of Engineering, PeerSpot reviewer

    PeerSpot review by reviewer2811606PeerSpot review

    The team did not use Pinecone mainly because its serverless region was only in the United States, and uses pgvector with Postgres instead. PeerSpot marks the review as incentivized: the reviewer was offered a gift card.

    Published Mar 25, 2026self-described: Head of engineering, per PeerSpot's reviewer line, choosing a store with in-country data

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  15. Positive

    Harshwardhan Gullapalli, PeerSpot reviewer

    PeerSpot review by Harshwardhan GullapalliPeerSpot review

    Managed infrastructure means no DevOps headaches, and costs were low at first, but as the index grew to 500,000 vectors the monthly bill grew noticeably. PeerSpot marks the review as incentivized: the reviewer was offered a gift card.

    Published Mar 25, 2026self-described: AI engineer at an educational organization with 51 to 200 employees, per PeerSpot's reviewer line

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  16. Mixed

    Tushar Prasad, PeerSpot reviewer

    PeerSpot review by Tushar PrasadPeerSpot review

    There is no on-premises option, only cloud, which becomes a problem for highly regulated industries. PeerSpot marks the review as incentivized: the reviewer was offered a gift card.

    Published Mar 24, 2026self-described: Technical product manager at HireRight, per PeerSpot's reviewer line

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  17. Negative

    wing-of-freak, first-time founder (own Reddit post)

    Reddit comment by wing-of-freakReddit comment

    After a significant Pinecone bill, the team found S3 Vector Buckets roughly 90% cheaper for its data, with higher latency as the main tradeoff.

    Published Jan 18, 2026self-described: A startup weighing its Pinecone bill against S3 Vectors

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  18. Negative

    Laszlo Zabb (lzgit), GitHub issue reporter

    GitHub issue by lzgitGitHub issue

    Asked the .NET client to return the LongSequenceNumber in responses, so teams can follow Pinecone's own documented freshness-checking practice.

    Published Dec 8, 2025self-described: Checking index freshness from .NET

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  19. Mixed

    Ssaw, PeerSpot reviewer

    PeerSpot review by SsawPeerSpot review

    Pinecone is good as it is, but in his view it sits outside AWS, which causes some network lag for the team's AWS-hosted services. PeerSpot marks the review as incentivized: the reviewer was offered a gift card.

    Published Dec 2, 2025self-described: Senior engineer at an outsourcing company with 1,001 to 5,000 employees, per PeerSpot's reviewer line

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  20. Negative

    Simon Høiberg, founder building bootstrapped SaaS products including Aidbase (X profile)

    X post by SimonHoibergX post

    Cut Pinecone as a third-party dependency: it used to be an essential building block in Aidbase's RAG system, storing tens of millions of knowledge points.

    Published Dec 1, 2025self-described: Aidbase's RAG system

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  21. Positive

    adlx, Reddit commenter

    Reddit comment by adlxReddit comment

    Runs a small production project on Pinecone with an Azure web app, a MySQL database and corporate Entra ID sign-in for 300€ a month of total infrastructure cost.

    Published Nov 20, 2025self-described: A small production project with corporate Entra ID sign-in

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  22. Negative

    Santosh Bhavani (sbhavani), NVIDIA (GitHub profile)

    GitHub issue by sbhavaniGitHub issue

    Switched to Qdrant, which supports ARM, after hitting the same x86-only Pinecone Local images.

    Published Nov 20, 2025self-described: Testing against Pinecone Local on ARM

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  23. Negative

    Guillem Barba (gbarba), Hubtype (GitHub profile)

    GitHub issue by gbarbaGitHub issue

    The team wants to create indexes for an OpenAI embedding model through the Terraform provider, which it can do only by hand.

    Published Oct 7, 2025self-described: Creating indexes with Terraform

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  24. Negative

    Lee (zygopleural), Rideo (GitHub profile)

    GitHub issue by zygopleuralGitHub issue

    Creating a fairly simple dense index with the Terraform provider returned a value conversion error and invalid result objects after apply.

    Published Sep 10, 2025self-described: Creating a dense index with Terraform

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  25. Mixed

    Chris Hynes (railapex), OwnerRez (GitHub profile)

    GitHub issue by railapexGitHub issue

    Every .NET example creates a new client per call, which repeats costly setup and DNS lookups. Reusing one client avoids that, and he asks for the examples to say so.

    Published Jul 15, 2025self-described: A .NET application calling Pinecone

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  26. Negative

    Charles Duffy (charles-dyfis-net), zerocmd (GitHub profile)

    GitHub issue by charles-dyfis-netGitHub issue

    Between pinecone-client 5.0.1 and 7.0.2 the type definitions narrowed index creation input to List[float], so previously legal values are no longer accepted.

    Published Jun 12, 2025self-described: Upgrading the Python SDK

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  27. Negative

    Yashas Rao (yashrao99), Twin Health (GitHub profile)

    GitHub issue by yashrao99GitHub issue

    Upserts failed inside the newer Java SDK and worked after he dropped back to v3.1. The maintainer could not reproduce it.

    Published Apr 10, 2025self-described: Upserting through the Java client

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  28. Negative

    Amayas Sadi (Amayas29), Data Scientist at Credit Agricole DataLab (GitHub profile)

    GitHub issue by Amayas29GitHub issue

    Needs a reliable way to check that recent writes are visible to queries: comparing vector counts fails when inserts and deletes offset each other, as when 5 are inserted and 5 deleted.

    Published Mar 26, 2025self-described: Checking that upserts and deletes have landed

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  29. Negative

    Jeremy Mumford (17jmumford), Pattern (GitHub profile)

    GitHub issue by 17jmumfordGitHub issue

    An older pinecone-client package on PyPI looks official, so months later another developer tries the inference endpoint and finds that client does not have it. Pinecone's maintainer replied on Feb 21, 2025 that he added information to the README and pushed an update to the legacy package to make this clearer.

    Published Feb 19, 2025self-described: A team using Pinecone's inference endpoint

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  30. Negative

    Quest Henkart (qhenkart), Software Architect at Glidr.io (GitHub profile)

    GitHub issue by qhenkartGitHub issue

    The API documents how it handles errors, but the Go SDK does not format them.

    Published Feb 8, 2025self-described: Handling API errors in Go

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  31. Negative

    Evan Jones (EandrewJones), Software Engineer at ARLIS (GitHub profile)

    GitHub issue by EandrewJonesGitHub issue

    The new Pinecone Assistant context API does not work with docx files despite claiming to support them.

    Published Jan 27, 2025self-described: Feeding documents to Pinecone Assistant

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  32. Negative

    Dan Meruelo (danbf), GitHub issue reporter

    GitHub issue by danbfGitHub issue

    The Pinecone Local images were built for x86_64 only, so the team's workaround is to run only on its Intel machines and through Rosetta on Mac laptops.

    Published Jan 17, 2025self-described: A team testing against Pinecone Local on ARM machines

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  33. Positive

    Lazy-Kangaroo-573, builder of a legal AI RAG (Reddit post history)

    Reddit comment by Lazy-Kangaroo-573Reddit comment

    Pinecone serverless does not bottleneck at all for 28k vectors, even with parallel queries, and the whole RAG pipeline runs at 2.5s P95 end to end on their Langfuse dashboard.

    Published Jul 5, 2026self-described: A solo production legal RAG on near-zero infrastructure

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  34. Negative

    Ben Edelstein (benedelstein), designer and engineer (his own site)

    GitHub issue by benedelsteinGitHub issue

    The docs claim you can upsert records with just text, but the TypeScript SDK did not support it.

    Published Sep 25, 2025self-described: Upserting text through the TypeScript SDK

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  35. Negative

    alastairr, Hacker News commenter

    Hacker News comment by alastairrHacker News comment

    Has used Pinecone for ages, but it raised the cost floor for serverless, so they are thinking of moving their roughly 1M vectors to pgvector, where the larger metadata already lives.

    Published Sep 8, 2025self-described: A long-time Pinecone serverless user with about 1M vectors

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  36. Negative

    realam1, Reddit poster

    Reddit post by realam1Reddit post

    Used only a few dollars of Pinecone credits in a year, then received an email that Pinecone was implementing a US$50 a month minimum spend on their account.

    Published Jul 17, 2025self-described: A lightweight hobby use of Pinecone

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  37. Negative

    fantastiskelars, Reddit poster

    Reddit post by fantastiskelarsReddit post

    Pinecone cost them US$800 in total to process all the links at first, and monthly costs varied between US$20 and US$200 with traffic and crawler activity.

    Published Apr 27, 2025self-described: Vector search on each page of a site with about 200,000 SEO pages

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Product documentation 24

Pages from Pinecone, used to check facts for every group.

  1. Overview

    Pinecone Database serves full-text search, semantic search, sparse-vector search and hybrid search from one index. With integrated embedding, you upsert and query with text, and Pinecone generates the vectors from your text server-side. Pinecone narrows results with metadata filters and then reranks them for relevance. Pinecone keeps each tenant's data separate within one index by using namespaces. Dedicated read nodes scale reads for sustained, high query volumes. The pricing page lists Dedicated Read Nodes (DRN) from Standard. For production, Pinecone backs up indexes and deploys in your own cloud account with Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC). The pricing page lists Backup and Restore from Standard, and BYOC requires an Enterprise plan.

    Checked Nov 1, 2026

  2. Hosted embedding models

    Pinecone hosts several embedding models, and you can use a hosted model to embed data as an integrated part of upserting and querying, or as a standalone operation. With only a Pinecone API key, you can embed with llama-text-embed-v2, multilingual-e5-large and pinecone-sparse-english-v0 and rerank with cohere-rerank-4-fast and bge-reranker-v2-m3.

    Checked Nov 1, 2026

  3. Integrated embedding defaults

    On a document index, an embed field takes a hosted dense model, default llama-text-embed-v2, and a sparse_embed field a hosted sparse model, default pinecone-sparse-english-v0. Integrated embedding requires API version 2026-07, is fixed at index creation, and BYOC indexes can't declare it.

    Checked Nov 1, 2026

  4. Models

    You can bring your own vectors: generate them with the model company's API, or run an open-source model yourself, and upsert them to an index. Pinecone does no embedding in this path, and dense vectors can have up to 20,000 dimensions. The models table lists the processing location of llama-text-embed-v2, multilingual-e5-large, pinecone-sparse-english-v0 and bge-reranker-v2-m3 as us, and of cohere-rerank-4-fast as global.

    Checked Nov 1, 2026

  5. Pricing

    Pinecone is available on the AWS, GCP and Microsoft cloud marketplaces, and an organization can set up pay-as-you-go billing through AWS Marketplace. Prepaid credits can't be bought through marketplace billing. Starter is free. Builder is US$20 a month flat. Standard has a US$50 monthly minimum and Enterprise a US$500 monthly minimum. On Standard, the US$50 monthly minimum applies to usage, and anything over US$50 is billed pay-as-you-go. On Enterprise, once usage exceeds the US$500 minimum, you pay as you go. On Standard and Enterprise, llama-text-embed-v2 costs US$0.16 per million tokens, multilingual-e5-large and pinecone-sparse-english-v0 US$0.08 per million tokens, and bge-reranker-v2-m3 and pinecone-rerank-v0 US$2 per 1,000 requests. Starter includes 5 million and Builder 10 million embedding tokens a month per model. On Standard and Enterprise, storage costs US$0.33 per GB a month, import from object storage US$0.25 per GB, backups US$0.10 per GB a month and restore from backup US$0.15 per GB. Indexes are limited to 5 on Starter and 10, 20 and 200 per project on Builder, Standard and Enterprise. Namespaces per index are 100, 1,000, 100,000 and 1,000,000. Exceeding an object limit returns 403 QUOTA_EXCEEDED, and most object limits can be raised on request.

    Checked Nov 1, 2026

  6. LangChain

    The PineconeVectorStore class from LangChain works with Pinecone indexes, and an index must exist before you create a PineconeVectorStore object.

    Checked Nov 1, 2026

  7. LlamaIndex

    Pinecone Database integrates with LlamaIndex to build semantic search and RAG applications.

    Checked Nov 1, 2026

  8. MCP server

    Through the Pinecone MCP server, AI agents can search Pinecone documentation, manage indexes, upsert data and query indexes.

    Checked Nov 1, 2026

  9. Amazon Bedrock

    Pinecone can be selected as the vector store for a Knowledge Base for Amazon Bedrock.

    Checked Nov 1, 2026

  10. Cloud and region by plan

    Starter serverless indexes must be in the AWS us-east-1 region. Builder, Standard and Enterprise can create indexes in any supported region, on AWS, Azure or GCP.

    Checked Nov 1, 2026

  11. Bring Your Own Cloud

    In BYOC, the console index browser can't read or write data, the Pinecone CLI can't run data plane operations, and imports from private buckets need the bucket in the same cloud account. A BYOC bill is a flat monthly platform fee for each environment plus a rate for each node, metered in node hours, and you pay your cloud provider directly for the underlying infrastructure. Current rates come from Pinecone on request. In BYOC, vectors, metadata, index contents and query and upsert payloads do not leave your cloud account. Only operational metrics and traces are sent to Pinecone, with customer data filtered out before transmission.

    Checked Nov 1, 2026

  12. Understanding cost

    Pinecone serverless is usage-based: you pay for the data you store and the operations you run. On Standard, write units cost US$4 to US$4.50 per million and read units US$16 to US$18 per million, and on Enterprise US$6 to US$6.75 and US$24 to US$27 per million, varying by cloud and region. Standard and Enterprise include 100 GB of egress a month, and egress beyond the allowance is billed at the per-GB overage rate of US$0.10 per GB while reads keep serving. On Starter and Builder, in-scope reads are blocked with a 429 error once the allowance is reached. Customers can buy between US$8,000 and US$25,000 in prepaid credits, which apply at List Price, and usage beyond the available prepaid credits is billed at full List Price.

    Checked Nov 1, 2026

  13. Builder has no overage

    The Builder plan is a flat US$20 a month plan with higher quotas than Starter and no usage overages.

    Checked Nov 1, 2026

  14. SSO

    SSO is available on Standard and Enterprise plans, and the Okta setup can be adapted for any provider with SAML 2.0 support. You can choose to enforce SSO, so all members of your organization must use it to log in.

    Checked Nov 1, 2026

  15. SCIM

    SCIM provisioning is available on the Enterprise plan and builds on SAML SSO. Changes made in Okta sync to Pinecone over SCIM in near real time, and SCIM group push isn't supported.

    Checked Nov 1, 2026

  16. Audit logs

    Audit logs record user, service account and API actions on the management and control plane and are written to an Amazon S3 bucket every 30 minutes. They are available only on Enterprise plans or with the HIPAA compliance add-on, and only an organization owner can enable them.

    Checked Nov 1, 2026

  17. Data deletion

    Pinecone captures audit log events within two hours of occurrence and retains them for 90 days, after which they are permanently deleted. After a deletion request, Pinecone marks the data for deletion and retains it for a maximum of 90 days, inaccessible to any user, and permanently deletes it before the end of that window.

    Checked Nov 1, 2026

  18. Security

    Pinecone is SOC2 Type II certified. Pinecone is HIPAA compliant, with a BAA available upon request. Full HIPAA compliance is included with Enterprise, Standard offers it as a US$190 per month add-on with a 6-month minimum, and on either it requires configuring audit logs. Pinecone encrypts data at rest and in transit with AES-256. On the Enterprise plan, private endpoints reach indexes through AWS PrivateLink or Azure Private Link and carry data plane traffic only, and customer-managed encryption keys use AWS KMS.

    Checked Nov 1, 2026

  19. ISO 27001 certification

    Pinecone's Trust Center lists ISO 27001:2022 under Compliance and offers a Pinecone ISO 27001 2025 Certificate among its resources.

    Checked Nov 1, 2026

  20. Retention after non-payment and termination

    If an account is deactivated for non-payment, account data is retained for 30 days and then permanently deleted. After termination, on the customer's written request, an End User may access the Services for up to 30 days to retrieve Customer Data, and then, unless prohibited by Applicable Law, Pinecone deletes Customer Data in accordance with the Documentation.

    Checked Nov 1, 2026

  21. Data use

    Under the Master Subscription Agreement, the customer grants Pinecone the right to use and process Customer Data solely to provide Services and as otherwise expressly provided in the agreement. The security page says data is only used for servicing API calls.

    Checked Nov 1, 2026

  22. Operation limits

    Operation limits are fixed and don't vary by plan: an upsert batch holds 1,000 records with vectors, up to 2 MB in total, or 96 records with text, a query takes a top_k of at most 10,000 and returns at most 4MB, and fetch and delete requests take at most 1,000 record IDs.

    Checked Nov 1, 2026

  23. Rate limits

    On serverless indexes, Starter allows 1,000,000 read units and 2,000,000 write units a month per organization, and Builder 2,000,000 and 5,000,000. Standard and Enterprise are unlimited. Reaching a monthly usage limit returns a 429 error. Rate limits apply to serverless indexes only. On every plan, queries are limited to 100 requests per second per namespace and 2,000 read units per second per index, and upserts to 100 requests and 50 MB per second per namespace. Most rate limits can be adjusted on request, and indexes on Dedicated Read Nodes aren't subject to read unit limits for query, fetch, list and full-text search. llama-text-embed-v2 and multilingual-e5-large embed up to 250,000 passage tokens a minute on Starter and Builder and 1,000,000 on Standard and Enterprise. Inference requests are limited to 100 per second and 2,000 per minute per project on every plan.

    Checked Nov 1, 2026

  24. Consistency

    Pinecone is eventually consistent, so there can be a slight delay before upserted records are available to query.

    Checked Nov 1, 2026

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Provenance at a glance

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Provenance for every analyzed Signals source
SourceOriginal URLAuthor and contextWhoPublishedReview dateAppliesFindings
GitHub issue by chr-hertelID pc-c102 | Developer Communitiesgithub.com/symfony/ai/issues/2820Christopher Hertel (chr-hertel), Automattic (GitHub profile)self-described: Maintaining Symfony AI's Pinecone store packageProduct or platform teamPublished Oct 26, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
GitHub issue by kdang-at-safeID pc-c022 | Developer Communitiesgithub.com/pinecone-io/python-sdk/issues/705kdang-at-safe, Safe Software (GitHub profile)self-described: Upgrading to Python SDK v10Product or platform teamPublished Oct 21, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
GitHub issue by oleh-zaporozhetsID pc-c026 | Developer Communitiesgithub.com/pinecone-io/pinecone-ts-client/issues/443Oleh Zaporozhets (oleh-zaporozhets), GitHub issue reporterself-described: An application syncing files with Pinecone AssistantProduct or platform teamPublished Oct 16, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
GitHub pull request by Pathumi-KaveeshaID pc-c028 | Developer Communitiesgithub.com/wso2-open-operations/pitstop/pull/94Pathumi Kaveesha (Pathumi-Kaveesha), GitHub contributorself-described: WSO2's internal Pitstop Smart SearchProduct or platform teamPublished Oct 7, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
Practitioner blog post by Nguyen Chi CongID pc-c038 | Practitioner Blogs and Postschicong115.com/blog/we-deleted-pinecone-from-production-latency-went-down-20260913Nguyen Chi Cong, Engineering Manager at PhoenixDX (his own site)self-described: Retrieval for an internal agent product over about 40,000 chunksTechnical leadershipPublished Sep 13, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
GitHub issue by philipredfordID pc-c104 | Developer Communitiesgithub.com/pinecone-io/terraform-provider-pinecone/issues/99Philip Redford (philipredford), machine learning and AI engineering (GitHub profile)self-described: Managing Pinecone with TerraformProduct or platform teamPublished Aug 27, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
Reddit comment by Lazy-Kangaroo-573ID pc-c009 | Developer Communitieswww.reddit.com/r/LangChain/comments/1uhthok/pypdfloader_unstructured_custom_regex_i_tried/ovoa14q/Lazy-Kangaroo-573, builder of a legal AI RAG (Reddit post history)self-described: A solo production legal RAG on near-zero infrastructureIndividual builderPublished Jul 5, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
GitHub issue by deekshant-wID pc-c023 | Developer Communitiesgithub.com/pinecone-io/python-sdk/issues/678Deekshant Wadhwa (deekshant-w), GitHub issue reporterself-described: Testing against Pinecone LocalIndividual builderPublished Jun 17, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
GitHub issue by micah-pressID pc-c024 | Developer Communitiesgithub.com/pinecone-io/pinecone-java-client/issues/220micah-press, GitHub issue reporterself-described: A Java service using the Pinecone clientProduct or platform teamPublished Jun 4, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
Practitioner blog post by Darryl RugglesID pc-c039 | Practitioner Blogs and Postsdarryl-ruggles.cloud/the-real-cost-of-vector-storage-s3-vectors-vs-opensearch-vs-pgvector-vs-pinecone/Darryl Ruggles, AWS Serverless Hero and Principal Cloud Solutions Architect at Ciena (his own site)self-described: Benchmarking vector stores from an AWS-first viewTechnical leadershipPublished Jun 1, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026CurrentNot counted. AWS Serverless Hero (AWS community program); AWS sells the competing stores he benchmarks (S3 Vectors, OpenSearch Serverless, Aurora pgvector).
PeerSpot review by reviewer2846073ID pc-c035 | Review Siteswww.peerspot.com/product_reviews/pinecone-review-11647558-by-reviewer2846073Product Manager, PeerSpot reviewerself-described: Product manager at a tech vendor, per PeerSpot's reviewer lineSmall product teamPublished May 30, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
GitHub issue by M1ha-Shvn: Dry-running a metadata update in the Python SDKID pc-c021 | Developer Communitiesgithub.com/pinecone-io/python-sdk/issues/670M1ha Shvn (M1ha-Shvn), back-end architect at Dashly (GitHub profile)self-described: Dry-running a metadata update in the Python SDKProduct or platform teamPublished May 18, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
GitHub issue by M1ha-Shvn: Updating records by metadata filter in the Python SDKID pc-c020 | Developer Communitiesgithub.com/pinecone-io/python-sdk/issues/637M1ha Shvn (M1ha-Shvn), back-end architect at Dashly (GitHub profile)self-described: Updating records by metadata filter in the Python SDKProduct or platform teamPublished Apr 10, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
GitHub issue by matthewwalkID pc-c105 | Developer Communitiesgithub.com/pinecone-io/cli/issues/85Matt Walker (matthewwalk), MLOps Engineer at Numerator (GitHub profile)self-described: Querying through the Pinecone CLIProduct or platform teamPublished Apr 10, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
PeerSpot review by reviewer2812962ID pc-c031 | Review Siteswww.peerspot.com/product_reviews/pinecone-review-11088300-by-reviewer2812962Associate Director, PeerSpot reviewerself-described: Associate director at a pharma or biotech company with 10,001+ employees, per PeerSpot's reviewer lineOrganization-widePublished Mar 30, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
PeerSpot review by reviewer2811606ID pc-c030 | Review Siteswww.peerspot.com/product_reviews/pinecone-review-11041832-by-reviewer2811606Head of Engineering, PeerSpot reviewerself-described: Head of engineering, per PeerSpot's reviewer line, choosing a store with in-country dataTechnical leadershipPublished Mar 25, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
PeerSpot review by Harshwardhan GullapalliID pc-c036 | Review Siteswww.peerspot.com/product_reviews/pinecone-review-11041798-by-harshwardhan-gullapalliHarshwardhan Gullapalli, PeerSpot reviewerself-described: AI engineer at an educational organization with 51 to 200 employees, per PeerSpot's reviewer lineProduct or platform teamPublished Mar 25, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
PeerSpot review by Tushar PrasadID pc-c032 | Review Siteswww.peerspot.com/product_reviews/pinecone-review-11033402-by-tushar-prasadTushar Prasad, PeerSpot reviewerself-described: Technical product manager at HireRight, per PeerSpot's reviewer lineProduct or platform teamPublished Mar 24, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
Project report on GitHub by jonathanMLDevID pc-c029 | Practitioner Blogs and Postsraw.githubusercontent.com/CppDigest/cppa-brain-backend/3155841d1084a03ca0466ec15e049faf9c17cbbf/pinecone_rag/pinecone_usage_analysis_report.mdJonathan, CPPAlliance (report header)self-described: A RAG backend for the C++ AllianceProduct or platform teamPublished Feb 21, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
Reddit comment by wing-of-freakID pc-c010 | Developer Communitieswww.reddit.com/r/Rag/comments/1qdy998/job_wants_me_to_develop_rag_search_engine_for/o085ylp/wing-of-freak, first-time founder (own Reddit post)self-described: A startup weighing its Pinecone bill against S3 VectorsTechnical leadershipPublished Jan 18, 2026Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
GitHub issue by lzgitID pc-c025 | Developer Communitiesgithub.com/pinecone-io/pinecone-dotnet-client/issues/55Laszlo Zabb (lzgit), GitHub issue reporterself-described: Checking index freshness from .NETProduct or platform teamPublished Dec 8, 2025Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
PeerSpot review by SsawID pc-c034 | Review Siteswww.peerspot.com/product_reviews/pinecone-review-10144683-by-ssaw-ssawSsaw, PeerSpot reviewerself-described: Senior engineer at an outsourcing company with 1,001 to 5,000 employees, per PeerSpot's reviewer lineProduct or platform teamPublished Dec 2, 2025Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
X post by SimonHoibergID pc-c040 | Developer Communitiesx.com/SimonHoiberg/status/1995476829319155815Simon Høiberg, founder building bootstrapped SaaS products including Aidbase (X profile)self-described: Aidbase's RAG systemTechnical leadershipPublished Dec 1, 2025Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
Reddit comment by adlxID pc-c014 | Developer Communitieswww.reddit.com/r/LangChain/comments/1p1civz/sqlbased_llm_memory_engine_clever_approach_to_the/npt9nk7/adlx, Reddit commenterself-described: A small production project with corporate Entra ID sign-inProduct or platform teamPublished Nov 20, 2025Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
GitHub issue by sbhavaniID pc-c018 | Developer Communitiesgithub.com/pinecone-io/python-sdk/issues/431#issuecomment-3558862449Santosh Bhavani (sbhavani), NVIDIA (GitHub profile)self-described: Testing against Pinecone Local on ARMProduct or platform teamPublished Nov 20, 2025Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
GitHub issue by gbarbaID pc-c106 | Developer Communitiesgithub.com/pinecone-io/terraform-provider-pinecone/issues/62Guillem Barba (gbarba), Hubtype (GitHub profile)self-described: Creating indexes with TerraformProduct or platform teamPublished Oct 7, 2025Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
GitHub issue by benedelsteinID pc-c107 | Developer Communitiesgithub.com/pinecone-io/pinecone-ts-client/issues/353Ben Edelstein (benedelstein), designer and engineer (his own site)self-described: Upserting text through the TypeScript SDKIndividual builderPublished Sep 25, 2025Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
GitHub issue by zygopleuralID pc-c108 | Developer Communitiesgithub.com/pinecone-io/terraform-provider-pinecone/issues/57Lee (zygopleural), Rideo (GitHub profile)self-described: Creating a dense index with TerraformProduct or platform teamPublished Sep 10, 2025Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
Hacker News comment by alastairrID pc-c007 | Developer Communitiesnews.ycombinator.com/item?id=45172826alastairr, Hacker News commenterself-described: A long-time Pinecone serverless user with about 1M vectorsIndividual builderPublished Sep 8, 2025Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
GitHub issue by zrosenbauerID pc-c109 | Developer Communitiesgithub.com/pinecone-io/pinecone-ts-client/issues/350Zac Rosenbauer (zrosenbauer), Joggr (GitHub profile)self-described: Typing a TypeScript application against the SDKProduct or platform teamPublished Aug 5, 2025Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
Reddit post by realam1ID pc-c012 | Developer Communitieswww.reddit.com/r/vectordatabase/comments/1m2n50h/pinecones_new_50mo_minimum_just_nuked_my_hobby/realam1, Reddit posterself-described: A lightweight hobby use of PineconeIndividual builderPublished Jul 17, 2025Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
GitHub issue by railapexID pc-c027 | Developer Communitiesgithub.com/pinecone-io/pinecone-dotnet-client/issues/53Chris Hynes (railapex), OwnerRez (GitHub profile)self-described: A .NET application calling PineconeProduct or platform teamPublished Jul 15, 2025Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
GitHub issue by charles-dyfis-netID pc-c110 | Developer Communitiesgithub.com/pinecone-io/python-sdk/issues/511Charles Duffy (charles-dyfis-net), zerocmd (GitHub profile)self-described: Upgrading the Python SDKProduct or platform teamPublished Jun 12, 2025Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
Reddit post by fantastiskelarsID pc-c011 | Developer Communitieswww.reddit.com/r/vectordatabase/comments/1k9ai4h/why_vector_databases_are_a_scam/fantastiskelars, Reddit posterself-described: Vector search on each page of a site with about 200,000 SEO pagesIndividual builderPublished Apr 27, 2025Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
GitHub issue by yashrao99ID pc-c115 | Developer Communitiesgithub.com/pinecone-io/pinecone-java-client/issues/184Yashas Rao (yashrao99), Twin Health (GitHub profile)self-described: Upserting through the Java clientProduct or platform teamPublished Apr 10, 2025Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
GitHub issue by Amayas29ID pc-c019 | Developer Communitiesgithub.com/pinecone-io/python-sdk/issues/470Amayas Sadi (Amayas29), Data Scientist at Credit Agricole DataLab (GitHub profile)self-described: Checking that upserts and deletes have landedProduct or platform teamPublished Mar 26, 2025Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
GitHub issue by 17jmumfordID pc-c111 | Developer Communitiesgithub.com/pinecone-io/python-sdk/issues/460Jeremy Mumford (17jmumford), Pattern (GitHub profile)self-described: A team using Pinecone's inference endpointProduct or platform teamPublished Feb 19, 2025Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
GitHub issue by qhenkartID pc-c114 | Developer Communitiesgithub.com/pinecone-io/go-pinecone/issues/102Quest Henkart (qhenkart), Software Architect at Glidr.io (GitHub profile)self-described: Handling API errors in GoProduct or platform teamPublished Feb 8, 2025Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
GitHub issue by EandrewJonesID pc-c116 | Developer Communitiesgithub.com/pinecone-io/python-sdk/issues/434Evan Jones (EandrewJones), Software Engineer at ARLIS (GitHub profile)self-described: Feeding documents to Pinecone AssistantProduct or platform teamPublished Jan 27, 2025Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
GitHub issue by danbfID pc-c017 | Developer Communitiesgithub.com/pinecone-io/python-sdk/issues/431Dan Meruelo (danbf), GitHub issue reporterself-described: A team testing against Pinecone Local on ARM machinesProduct or platform teamPublished Jan 17, 2025Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026Current
OverviewID pcd-01 | Product Documentationdocs.pinecone.io/guides/get-started/overviewPineconeOfficialNot counted (documentation)No date statedDocumentation checked Nov 1, 2026CurrentVerification only
Hosted embedding modelsID pcd-02 | Product Documentationdocs.pinecone.io/guides/index-data/index-configurationPineconeOfficialNot counted (documentation)No date statedDocumentation checked Nov 1, 2026CurrentVerification only
Integrated embedding defaultsID pcd-03 | Product Documentationdocs.pinecone.io/guides/search/integrated-embeddingPineconeOfficialNot counted (documentation)No date statedDocumentation checked Nov 1, 2026CurrentVerification only
ModelsID pcd-04 | Product Documentationdocs.pinecone.io/models/overviewPineconeOfficialNot counted (documentation)No date statedDocumentation checked Nov 1, 2026CurrentVerification only
PricingID pcd-05 | Product Documentationwww.pinecone.io/pricing/PineconeOfficialNot counted (documentation)No date statedDocumentation checked Nov 1, 2026CurrentVerification only
LangChainID pcd-06 | Product Documentationdocs.pinecone.io/integrations/langchainPineconeOfficialNot counted (documentation)No date statedDocumentation checked Nov 1, 2026CurrentVerification only
LlamaIndexID pcd-07 | Product Documentationdocs.pinecone.io/integrations/llamaindexPineconeOfficialNot counted (documentation)No date statedDocumentation checked Nov 1, 2026CurrentVerification only
MCP serverID pcd-08 | Product Documentationdocs.pinecone.io/guides/operations/mcp-serverPineconeOfficialNot counted (documentation)No date statedDocumentation checked Nov 1, 2026CurrentVerification only
Amazon BedrockID pcd-09 | Product Documentationdocs.pinecone.io/integrations/amazon-bedrockPineconeOfficialNot counted (documentation)No date statedDocumentation checked Nov 1, 2026CurrentVerification only
Cloud and region by planID pcd-10 | Product Documentationdocs.pinecone.io/reference/api/database-limits/object-limitsPineconeOfficialNot counted (documentation)No date statedDocumentation checked Nov 1, 2026CurrentVerification only
Bring Your Own CloudID pcd-11 | Product Documentationdocs.pinecone.io/guides/production/bring-your-own-cloudPineconeOfficialNot counted (documentation)No date statedDocumentation checked Nov 1, 2026CurrentVerification only
Understanding costID pcd-12 | Product Documentationdocs.pinecone.io/guides/manage-cost/understanding-costPineconeOfficialNot counted (documentation)No date statedDocumentation checked Nov 1, 2026CurrentVerification only
Builder has no overageID pcd-13 | Product Documentationdocs.pinecone.io/admin/billing/upgrade-billing-planPineconeOfficialNot counted (documentation)No date statedDocumentation checked Nov 1, 2026CurrentVerification only
SSOID pcd-14 | Product Documentationdocs.pinecone.io/admin/security/configure-single-sign-on/oktaPineconeOfficialNot counted (documentation)No date statedDocumentation checked Nov 1, 2026CurrentVerification only
SCIMID pcd-15 | Product Documentationdocs.pinecone.io/admin/security/configure-single-sign-on/okta-scim-provisioningPineconeOfficialNot counted (documentation)No date statedDocumentation checked Nov 1, 2026CurrentVerification only
Audit logsID pcd-16 | Product Documentationdocs.pinecone.io/admin/security/configure-audit-logsPineconeOfficialNot counted (documentation)No date statedDocumentation checked Nov 1, 2026CurrentVerification only
Data deletionID pcd-17 | Product Documentationdocs.pinecone.io/guides/production/data-deletionPineconeOfficialNot counted (documentation)No date statedDocumentation checked Nov 1, 2026CurrentVerification only
SecurityID pcd-18 | Product Documentationwww.pinecone.io/security/PineconeOfficialNot counted (documentation)No date statedDocumentation checked Nov 1, 2026CurrentVerification only
ISO 27001 certificationID pcd-19 | Product Documentationsecurity.pinecone.io/PineconeOfficialNot counted (documentation)No date statedDocumentation checked Nov 1, 2026CurrentVerification only
Retention after non-payment and terminationID pcd-20 | Product Documentationdocs.pinecone.io/admin/billing/non-payment-account-deactivationPineconeOfficialNot counted (documentation)No date statedDocumentation checked Nov 1, 2026CurrentVerification only
Data useID pcd-21 | Product Documentationwww.pinecone.io/legal/master-subscription-agreement/PineconeOfficialNot counted (documentation)No date statedDocumentation checked Nov 1, 2026CurrentVerification only
Operation limitsID pcd-22 | Product Documentationdocs.pinecone.io/reference/api/database-limits/operation-limitsPineconeOfficialNot counted (documentation)No date statedDocumentation checked Nov 1, 2026CurrentVerification only
Rate limitsID pcd-23 | Product Documentationdocs.pinecone.io/reference/api/database-limits/rate-limitsPineconeOfficialNot counted (documentation)No date statedDocumentation checked Nov 1, 2026CurrentVerification only
ConsistencyID pcd-24 | Product Documentationdocs.pinecone.io/reference/api/known-limitationsPineconeOfficialNot counted (documentation)No date statedDocumentation checked Nov 1, 2026CurrentVerification only