Pinecone pricing
5 plans read from pinecone.io
Builder$20 a month flat monthlyEverything in Starter · increased usage limits · selectable cloud and region · multiple projects/users · Prometheus and Datadog monitoring · free support Read 15 Oct 2026 · pinecone.io
Standard$50 a month minimum monthly usage, then pay-as-you-go; 3-week trial includes $300 creditsEverything in Builder · selectable cloud and region · dedicated read nodes · object-storage import · backup/restore · RBAC · SAML SSO · HIPAA add-on · free support Read 15 Oct 2026 · pinecone.io
Enterprise$500 a month minimum monthly usage, then pay-as-you-goEverything in Standard · 99.95% uptime SLA · BYOC · private endpoints · customer-managed encryption keys · audit logs · service accounts · SAML roles · SCIM · HIPAA compliance · Pro support Read 15 Oct 2026 · pinecone.io
StarterFree Dense, sparse and full-text indexes · console metrics · community Discord support · up to 5 indexes · 100 namespaces/index · 2 GB storage · 2M write units/month · 1M read units/month Read 15 Oct 2026 · pinecone.io
Bring your own cloud (BYOC)Priced on request Contact Pinecone for pricingRuns in your cloud account and VPC · Pro support included Read 30 Sep 2026 · pinecone.io
In short
- Pinecone has a free plan (Starter).
- A free trial is offered.
- Paid plans published: 3, from $20 a month.
- 1 plan is priced on request (Bring your own cloud (BYOC)).
What the alternatives costAll alternatives →
| Tool | From | Free plan | Free trial |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grafana Cloud Application Observability | $0.03/mo | Yes | No |
| Tailscale | $1/mo | Yes | Yes |
| Terraform | $0.10/mo | Yes | Yes |
| Confluent Cloud | $385/mo | Yes | Yes |
| Firebolt | — | Yes | No |
| Elastic Cloud Hosted | — | No | Yes |
| FortiGate | — | No | Yes |
| Polytomic | $500/mo | No | Yes |