Pinecone review

Entry pricing starts at $20 for a paid plan, which puts Pinecone above the €13.15 most tracked brands charge. The gap matters if you only need a small index, though the free tier gives you room to test first.

A free tier is listed, so you can try an index and run queries before spending anything. Once you outgrow it, paid entry begins at $20, which makes the step from free to paid a straightforward one to budget for.

The engine list is vector, so Pinecone is built for vector search rather than mixed workloads. If your stack also needs relational, key value or graph storage, this is a specialist pick and a second system will be needed.

Vector dimensions are capped at 20,000 when you create an index. That ceiling is the figure to check against your embedding model, since a model with wider vectors will not fit the limit as written.

Support runs on help centre and community. That suits developers who are happy to search documentation or ask other users, and it suits teams that already know the product, but it is thin for anyone who needs a direct line to an engineer.

The contracting entity is Pinecone Systems, Inc., a company founded in 2019 and headquartered in the US. That matters for procurement checks, data transfer questions and anyone who needs a named counterparty on the order form.

RisingWave lists $0.23 and UCloud lists $0.96, both under Pinecone's $20, and Vultr sits at $2.50. Pinecone also ranks 47 of 70 tracked brands on this measure, so the free tier is the counterweight.