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Pinecone — AI Vector Database

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What is Pinecone?

Pinecone is a vector database that powers AI applications with semantic search and knowledge retrieval capabilities. It stores vector embeddings from language models, performs similarity searches at scale, and integrates with frameworks like LangChain to help developers and data scientists build applications that understand meaning beyond exact keyword matches. With Pinecone, machine learning engineers can create more accurate AI chatbots, knowledge bases, and search systems.

What sets Pinecone apart?

Pinecone distinguishes itself with a serverless architecture that separates storage, reads, and writes to manage scaling without operational overhead. This distributed approach helps data scientists and ML engineers maintain sub-second query speeds even when working with billions of vectors across multiple data centers. Pinecone supports multi-cloud deployment across AWS, GCP, and Azure, giving organizations flexibility to align with existing infrastructure while maintaining consistent performance.

Pinecone Use Cases

  • Vector similarity search
  • RAG knowledge bases
  • Recommendation systems
  • Semantic document retrieval
  • AI chatbot memory

Who uses Pinecone?

Features and Benefits

  • Feature icon Vector Database
    Store and query vector embeddings to enable semantic search and retrieval augmented generation for AI applications.
  • Feature icon Serverless Architecture
    Automatically scales resources based on usage patterns without requiring infrastructure management.
  • Feature icon AI Model Integration
    Works with embeddings from any model or provider, including hosted options through the Inference API.
  • Feature icon Hybrid Search
    Combines vector similarity with metadata filtering to deliver more relevant search results.
  • Feature icon Enterprise Security
    Provides data encryption, access controls, and compliance certifications for secure AI deployments.

Pinecone Pros and Cons

Pros
  • Circle checkmark icon Extremely fast query and indexing performance even at large scale
  • Circle checkmark icon Simple API integration and quick setup process
  • Circle checkmark icon Highly reliable with minimal downtime
  • Circle checkmark icon Serverless option offers cost-effective scaling
  • Circle checkmark icon Excellent documentation and customer support
Cons
  • Cross icon Expensive pricing for larger-scale production usage
  • Cross icon Limited datacenter regions and hosting options
  • Cross icon Lacks some advanced security features like MFA
  • Cross icon Challenging metadata management and schema changes
  • Cross icon No self-hosted or on-premises deployment option

Pricing

Free Trial
Starter Price not available
  • Circle check icon Serverless indexes
  • Circle check icon Inference
  • Circle check icon Assistant
  • Circle check icon Console Metrics
  • Circle check icon Community Support
Standard $25/mo
  • Circle check icon Unlimited Serverless usage
  • Circle check icon Unlimited Inference and Assistant usage
  • Circle check icon Choose your cloud and region
  • Circle check icon Import from object storage
  • Circle check icon Multiple projects and users
  • Circle check icon RBAC
  • Circle check icon Backups
  • Circle check icon Prometheus metrics
  • Circle check icon Free support
  • Circle check icon Response SLAs available via Developer/Pro support add-on
Enterprise $500/mo
  • Circle check icon Everything in Standard
  • Circle check icon 99.95% Uptime SLA
  • Circle check icon Single sign-on
  • Circle check icon Private Link
  • Circle check icon Customer Managed Encryption Keys
  • Circle check icon Audit Logs
  • Circle check icon Pro support included
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