# Pinecone pricing (2026): plans, cost, and compliance

**Entry price:** $0 (free)/mo (Starter). Among the 8 search api we track it is the cheapest; median entry $0/mo.
**Domain:** pinecone.io
**Free tier:** Yes
**Compliance:** HIPAA Yes · SOC 2 Yes · GDPR Yes
**Integrations:** LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, OpenAI, Cohere, Hugging Face, AWS, Azure, GCP, Haystack, n8n, FastAPI
**Best for:** RAG pipelines and AI agent memory stores; Recommendation systems at billion-vector scale; Teams building production LLM applications needing HIPAA compliance; Multi-tenant SaaS with namespace isolation requirements
**Price tracked since:** June 2026

## Plans

| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Billing | Notes | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Starter | $0 | — | flat | Free forever. Up to 2 GB storage, 2M write units/mo, 1M read units/mo, 5 indexes (Dense, Sparse, Full-Text). Community support only. | pinecone.io |
| Builder | $20 | — | flat | Flat $20/mo. Up to 10 GB storage, 5M write units/mo, 2M read units/mo. Multiple projects/users, monitoring dashboards. Email support. | pinecone.io |
| Standard | $50 | — | custom | $50/mo minimum applied toward usage. Unlimited storage/write/read units above minimum. Dedicated Read Nodes, backup/restore, RBAC, SAML SSO. Usage rates: storage $0.33/GB/mo; write units $4-$4.50/M; read units $16-$18/M. Import $0.25/GB, backups $0.10/GB/mo. | pinecone.io |
| Enterprise | $500 | — | custom | $500/mo minimum applied toward usage. Adds 99.95% uptime SLA, private networking, audit logs, Pro 24/7 support (2-hour critical response). Usage rates: write units $6-$6.75/M; read units $24-$27/M. | pinecone.io |
| BYOC | Quote-only | — | custom | Bring Your Own Cloud — deploys Pinecone into customer's cloud account. Contact sales for pricing. | pinecone.io |

**Key features:** Purpose-built serverless vector database; Hybrid search: dense vector + sparse keyword + metadata filtering; Proprietary Rust-based ANN algorithms for sub-100ms queries at billion scale; Storage-compute separation for automatic scaling; Reranking and embedding model integrations; RBAC and SAML SSO (Standard+); BYOC deployment into customer cloud; MCP server for AI agent integration.

**Plan limits:** Starter: 2 GB storage, 2M write units/mo, 1M read units/mo, 5 indexes, community support only; HIPAA BAA available upon request — not automatic on Starter; 99.95% SLA only on Enterprise ($500/mo minimum); Private networking only on Enterprise; Audit logs only on Enterprise; API rate limits enforced per-project; 429 returned on excess — limits vary by plan.

Sources: 1 · Last verified 2026-06-14
Provenance: Official pricing page https://www.pinecone.io/pricing/ fetched 2026-06-14. HIPAA and BAA confirmed on security page https://www.pinecone.io/security/ fetched 2026-06-14: 'HIPAA compliant (with BAA available upon request).' SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR also confirmed.
Canonical: https://frontdeskreview.com/software/search-api/pinecone/
Cite: Per The Front Desk Review, Pinecone's entry plan was $0 (free)/mo as of 2026-06-14 — https://frontdeskreview.com/software/search-api/pinecone/
License: CC BY 4.0. Price history: https://frontdeskreview.com/data/price-history.jsonl