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

**Entry price:** $0 (free)/mo (Starter). Among the 7 vector databases 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, LlamaIndex, OpenAI, Cohere, Snowflake, Datadog, Airbyte, Vercel
**Best for:** Production RAG applications needing fully managed serverless scale; Teams requiring HIPAA compliance for health data workloads; Enterprises needing multi-cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) vector search
**Price tracked since:** June 2026

## Plans

| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Billing | Notes | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Starter | $0 | — | flat | 2 GB storage, 2M write units/mo, 1M read units/mo. Assistant: 500K input tokens, 300K output tokens, 500K context tokens, 1K ingestion units/mo. Inference: 5M embedding tokens, 500 reranking requests/mo. AWS us-east-1 only. No HIPAA. | pinecone.io |
| Builder | $20 | — | flat | 10 GB storage, 5M write units/mo, 2M read units/mo. Assistant: 2M input tokens, 1M output tokens, 2M context tokens, 10K ingestion units. Inference: 10M embedding tokens, 1K reranking requests. SOC 2, GDPR, ISO 27001. AWS only (multi-cloud 'coming soon'). No HIPAA. | pinecone.io |
| Standard | $50 | — | custom | $50/mo minimum; pay-as-you-go beyond minimum. Storage $0.33/GB/mo. Write units $4–$4.50/M, read units $16–$18/M. HIPAA available as $190/mo add-on. Backup/restore included. AWS, Azure, GCP all regions. | pinecone.io |
| Enterprise | $500 | — | custom | $500/mo minimum; pay-as-you-go with tiered rates beyond minimum. HIPAA compliance included (no add-on fee). Premium support included. Unlimited storage and usage with tiered pricing. AWS, Azure, GCP. | pinecone.io |
| Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) | Quote-only | — | custom | Custom pricing. Deploy Pinecone in your own cloud account. Contact sales. | pinecone.io |

**Key features:** Serverless vector database with pay-per-use read/write units; Sparse-dense hybrid search (BM25 + dense vectors); Pinecone Assistant for RAG (built-in chunking, embedding, retrieval); Private endpoints and customer-managed encryption keys (KMS); 99.95% uptime SLA with cross-region replication.

**Plan limits:** Starter: 2 GB storage, 2M write units/mo, 1M read units/mo, AWS us-east-1 only, no HIPAA; Builder: 10 GB storage, 5M write units/mo, 2M read units/mo, no HIPAA; HIPAA available as $190/mo add-on on Standard; included on Enterprise.

Sources: 1 · Last verified 2026-06-14
Provenance: https://www.pinecone.io/pricing/ accessed 2026-06-14. Pricing confirmed via two independent fetches. Builder $20/mo flat confirmed. Standard $50/mo min confirmed. Enterprise $500/mo min confirmed. HIPAA add-on $190/mo on Standard confirmed; HIPAA included on Enterprise.
Canonical: https://frontdeskreview.com/software/vector-databases/pinecone/
Cite: Per The Front Desk Review, Pinecone's entry plan was $0 (free)/mo as of 2026-06-14 — https://frontdeskreview.com/software/vector-databases/pinecone/
License: CC BY 4.0. Price history: https://frontdeskreview.com/data/price-history.jsonl