Pinecone
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Current state
As of Sep 6, 2026Pinecone offers four public plans: a free Starter tier, a $20/month flat Builder tier, a Standard tier with a $50/month usage minimum, and an Enterprise tier with a $500/month usage minimum; a Bring-Your-Own-Cloud option is quote-only. Beyond included allowances, usage (storage, read/write units, tokens, reranking, etc.) is billed pay-as-you-go at per-unit rates that vary by plan and cloud/region.
| Plan | Price | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | Free | Pinecone Database On-Demand, Inference, and Assistant included usage · Dense, Sparse, and Full-Text Indexes · Up to 2GB storage, 2M write units/mo, 1M read units/mo · Console Metrics; Community Support via Discord · AWS us-east-1 only |
| Builder | $20 flat / month | Everything in Starter plus increased usage limits · Choose your cloud and region; multiple projects and users · Prometheus and Datadog monitoring · Up to 10GB storage, 5M write units/mo, 2M read units/mo · Includes Free support |
| Standard | $50 minimum usage / month | 3 week trial includes $300 credits · Pay-as-you-go for Database, Inference, and Assistant usage · Dedicated Read Nodes (DRN), Import from object storage, Backup and Restore · RBAC, SSO (SAML 2.0); HIPAA add-on available · Includes Free support; Response SLAs via Developer or Pro support add-on |
| Enterprise | $500 minimum usage / month | 99.95% Uptime SLA · Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC), Private Endpoints, Customer Managed Encryption Keys · Audit Logs, Service Accounts, SAML roles, SCIM · HIPAA Compliance · Pro support included |
| Bring Your Own Cloud | — | Pinecone runs in your cloud account and VPC · Zero-access operations – no SSH, VPN, or inbound access required · Outbound-only operations with an auditable trail · Pro support included · Supports AWS PrivateLink, GCP Private Service Connect, Azure Private Link |
Free tier Starter plan is free with included usage: up to 2GB storage, up to 2M write units/mo, up to 1M read units/mo, up to 1GB egress/mo, 500k input tokens/mo, 300k output tokens/mo, 500k context processed tokens/mo, 1,000 ingestion units/mo, 5M tokens/mo for embedding models, 500 reranking requests/mo, 1 project, up to 2 users.
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Current state
As of Sep 6, 2026Pinecone's September 2026 changelog highlights the GA of full-text search via the new schema-based Documents API, GA of Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC), and new egress metering with monthly allowances (1 GB Starter, 10 GB Builder, 100 GB Standard/Enterprise). The $250 bulk import credit has been discontinued for new subscriptions, and Pinecone Marketplace has reached end of life in favor of Pinecone Assistant.
Deprecations
- Sunset 2026-11-01
$250 bulk import credit (1 TB)
- Sunset 2026-08-31
Pinecone Marketplace
→ Pinecone Assistant
- Sunset 2026-08-31
cohere-rerank-3.5
→ cohere-rerank-4-fast
- No date
Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3.7 Sonnet
→ Claude Sonnet 4.5
Latest entries
- General availability: full-text search and the Documents APIbreaking
- Bulk import credit is no longer offeredchange
- Egress metering and monthly egress allowancesaddition
- BYOC stores cluster metadata in FoundationDBchange
- End of life: Pinecone Marketplacedeprecation
- General availability: Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC)addition
- Index fullness metrics for dedicated read nodesaddition
- Pod-to-serverless migration supports up to 50 million recordschange
- General availability: Pinecone Nexusaddition
- Released Pinecone Terraform provider v4.0.0addition
- Fuzzy matching and substring search for full-text searchaddition
- Manage roles from your identity provider with SAML and SCIMaddition
Changes
- ChangeAPI changelog
Pinecone announced multiple breaking changes and deprecations: Full-text search API v2026-07 is now GA with schema-only POST /indexes (breaking change), bulk import credit discontinued, egress metering introduced with monthly allowances, Pinecone Marketplace reached end-of-life, and cohere-rerank-3.5 deprecation date extended to August 31, 2026 with automatic fallover.
Through July 31, 2026: cohere-rerank-3.5 continues to serve requests as before. August 1, 2026: requests to cohere-rerank-3.5 are automatically served by cohere-rerank-4-fast. No code change is required for the transition, but note two differences before you migrate: * Relevance scores differ. cohere-rerank-4-fast returns different scores than cohere-rerank-3.5. If your application relies on hard-coded score thresholds, re-tune them against cohere-rerank-4-fast before August 1.Through August 30, 2026: cohere-rerank-3.5 continues to serve requests as before. August 31, 2026: requests to cohere-rerank-3.5 are automatically served by cohere-rerank-4-fast. No code change is required for the transition, but note two differences before you migrate: * Relevance scores differ. cohere-rerank-4-fast returns different scores than cohere-rerank-3.5. If your application relies on hard-coded score thresholds, re-tune them against cohere-rerank-4-fast before August 31. --- 2026-09-02: FULL-TEXT SEARCH AND THE DOCUMENTS API - POST /indexes is now schema-only on API v2026-07, replacing top-level dimension, metric, vector_type, and spec with schema. 2026-09-01: BULK IMPORT CREDIT IS NO LONGER OFFERED - New subscriptions no longer receive $250 bulk import credit. 2026-09-01: EGRESS METERING AND MONTHLY EGRESS ALLOWANCES - Monthly egress allowances introduced; reads blocked on Starter/Builder after allowance exceeded. 2026-08-31: END OF LIFE: PINECONE MARKETPLACE - Marketplace no longer available.Confidence95% - ChangeAPI changelog
Pinecone released Nexus product in general availability (2026-08-06) and BYOC is now generally available (2026-08-25); added new product filter; removed month headers and reformatted date headers.
DatabaseAssistantAPIBillingGeneralSearchInferenceMarketplaceCompliance AUGUST 2026DatabaseAssistantAPIBillingGeneralSearchNexusInferenceMarketplaceCompliance These release notes cover all Pinecone products. Use the filters to narrow the list. 2026-08-25 Database GENERAL AVAILABILITY: BRING YOUR OWN CLOUD (BYOC) BYOC is now generally available and recommended for production usage on the Enterprise plan, across AWS, GCP, and Azure.BYOC runs the Pinecone data plane inside your own cloud account, so your vectors, metadata, and queries stay in your environment. An agent in your cluster pulls operations from Pinecone and runs them locally, so Pinecone needs no inbound network access to your infrastructure. 2026-08-21 Database 2026-08-06 Nexus GENERAL AVAILABILITY: PINECONE NEXUS Pinecone Nexus, the knowledge engine for agents, is now generally available.Confidence90% - ChangeAPI changelog
Pinecone increased pod-to-serverless migration limit from 25 million to 50 million records.
Not present in before versionPOD-TO-SERVERLESS MIGRATION SUPPORTS UP TO 50 MILLION RECORDS Migrating a pod-based index to serverless now supports indexes with up to 50 million records, up from 25 million.Confidence95%
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Current state
As of Aug 17, 2026Pinecone's Trust Center lists 5 subprocessors: Salesforce, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Pylon, and Confluent. The page links to a Data Processing Agreement under the Legal section but does not specify processing regions or transfer mechanisms. Compliance badges shown include CCPA, GDPR, HIPAA, ISO/IEC 27001, and SOC 2. No explicit last-updated date is provided for the subprocessors list itself.
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Changes
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