Pinecone

Freemium

infoAbout Pinecone

Pinecone is a fully managed AI knowledge platform that provides vector database infrastructure for building and running AI applications. The platform comprises three products: a Database for vector storage and retrieval, Nexus for compiling enterprise data into governed knowledge, and a Marketplace for integrations. Writes are acknowledged within 100ms and become searchable within seconds, with automatic indexing that requires no manual tuning. The platform integrates with agents and tools via an API, plugins for Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Codex, and Gemini CLI, as well as an MCP (Model Context Protocol) interface. Users can search, upsert, and rerank from the same index. The web console provides monitoring, data exploration, and index management. Pinecone suits developers building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, recommendation systems, and other AI applications requiring fast, accurate semantic search. The vendor reports use by over 10,000 customers including Adobe, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Cohere. Enterprise features include SSO, RBAC, encryption at rest and in transit, and compliance certifications including SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR, and ISO 27001 (vendor-reported: SOC 2 Type II, GDPR). A free tier is available to start; paid plans scale with usage. Nexus, the knowledge engine for agents, compiles enterprise data once for reuse across queries, which Pinecone claims reduces token usage by 85–97% and improves accuracy by up to 94% compared to agentic RAG approaches.