Search API · pricing · Updated September 2026
Pinecone pricing (2026)
Pinecone starts at $0/mo (Starter) as checked on 2026-09-03, read from Pinecone's own pricing page; 5 plans. Best for RAG pipelines and AI agent memory stores. Every figure below links to its source and the date we captured it.
At a glance
- Entry price: $0/mo (Starter)
- Free tier: Yes
- Compliance: HIPAA Yes · SOC 2 Yes · GDPR Yes
- 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
As of · every figure below links to its source
Pinecone plans & pricing
| 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 | not priced monthly | — | custom | Bring Your Own Cloud — deploys Pinecone into customer's cloud account. Contact sales for pricing. | pinecone.io |
Last verified 2026-09-03. 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. Re-verified 2026-09-03 against the live pricing page; published figures unchanged.
Price changes
Price on record
$20/moFirst on record 2026-06-27
A new dated entry is stamped here each time the price moves — the record builds itself.
Tracked since June 2026. No change record has cleared two sources yet, so nothing is published on the wire.
Capabilities
Integrations: LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, OpenAI, Cohere, Hugging Face, AWS, Azure, GCP, Haystack, n8n, FastAPI.
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.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Pinecone cost?
Pinecone starts at $0/mo (Starter); it has 5 published plans. Verified 2026-09-03.
Does Pinecone support HIPAA?
Pinecone HIPAA support: Yes. SOC 2: Yes. GDPR: Yes.
Does Pinecone have a free plan?
Pinecone free tier: Yes.
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