Pinecone is a managed vector database for storing and searching embeddings, used to power semantic search, recommendations, and retrieval for AI applications. It targets developers who want vector search as a service without managing infrastructure, and operates serverlessly with hybrid (dense and sparse) search support. Pinecone is fully managed and closed-source, so it is not open-source or self-hostable. Pricing is usage based with a free Starter tier for getting started. It carries SOC2, ISO27001, and HIPAA compliance.
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Overview
- Founded
- 2019
- Pricing tier
- Low
- Startup-friendly
- Yes
- Enterprise-ready
- Yes
Vector database
- Free tier
- Yes: Free Starter tier (usage allowance).
- Serverless
- Yes
- Open-source
- No
- Self-hostable
- No
- Managed service
- Yes
- Hybrid search
- Yes