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Best Pinecone alternatives (2026)
6 alternatives to Pinecone in vector databases, ranked by entry price. Pinecone starts at $0/mo. Every figure links to the vendor's own page and the date we captured it.
Key takeaways
- Free alternatives: Chroma, MongoDB Atlas Vector Search, Qdrant Cloud, Redis Cloud, Supabase (pgvector), Weaviate.
- Closest by price: Chroma ($0/mo), MongoDB Atlas Vector Search ($0/mo), Qdrant Cloud ($0/mo).
Pinecone alternatives compared
| # | Alternative | Entry price | Free | HIPAA | Best for | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chroma | $0/mo | Yes | No | Developer-first teams building RAG prototypes quickly with open-source tooling | trychroma.com |
| 2 | MongoDB Atlas Vector Search | $0/mo | Yes | Yes | Teams already on MongoDB Atlas wanting vector search without a separate DB | mongodb.com |
| 3 | Qdrant Cloud | $0/mo | Yes | Yes | High-performance production workloads requiring low-latency ANN search | qdrant.tech |
| 4 | Redis Cloud | $0/mo | Yes | Yes | Real-time AI applications requiring sub-millisecond vector query latency | redis.io |
| 5 | Supabase (pgvector) | $0/mo | Yes | Yes | Full-stack apps needing vector search co-located with Postgres relational data | supabase.com |
| 6 | Weaviate | $0/mo | Yes | Yes | Multi-tenant SaaS applications needing per-customer data isolation | weaviate.io |
Data current through 2026-06-14. Compare any two directly on the Vector Databases index.