Pricing - Pinecone

Pinecone Bring Your Own Cloud is Now Generally Available - Read the announcement Dismiss Pinecone runs on fully managed infrastructure that scales with you. Start building today with product and support plans tailored to your needs. Feature Starter Builder Standard Enterprise For trying out and for small applications. Response SLAs available via Developer or Pro support add-on For production applications at any scale. $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. Pay-as-you-go for Database On-Demand, Inference, and Assistant Usage Response SLAs available via Developer or Pro support add-on For mission-critical production applications. $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. For trying out and for small applications. Response SLAs available via Developer or Pro support add-on For production applications at any scale. $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. Pay-as-you-go for Database On-Demand, Inference, and Assistant Usage Response SLAs available via Developer or Pro support add-on For mission-critical production applications. $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. Estimate your costs with our pricing calculator For organizations requiring the highest level of security and control Zero-access operations – no SSH, VPN, or inbound access required Outbound-only operations with an auditable trail Bring-your-own-cloud (BYOC) runs Pinecone in your cloud account and VPC. Pinecone does not need SSH, VPN, or inbound network access to operate the system. You can use public endpoints or private-only connectivity via AWS PrivateLink, GCP Private Service Connect, or Azure Private Link. 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. $50 monthly minimum that's applied to your usage. Anything over $50 is billed pay-as-you-go. The larger your usage commitments, the greater your benefits—unlock bigger discounts and support. Plan Starter Builder Standard Enterprise Database Features $4-$4.50 per million (varies by cloud and region) $6-$6.75 per million (varies by cloud and region) $16-$18 per million (varies by cloud and region) $24-$27 per million (varies by cloud and region) Context Processed Tokens 500k/mo included llama-text-embed-v2 5M tokens/mo included multilingual-e5-large 5M tokens/mo included pinecone-sparse-english-v0 5M tokens/mo included bge-reranker-v2-m3 500 requests/mo included Weighing this against what you run today? The Pinecone comparisons cover pgvector, Elasticsearch, Vertex AI Vector Search, and more . Create your first index for free, then pay as you go when you're ready to scale.