Infinity vs Pinecone
Infinity
infiniflow.org
Pinecone
pinecone.ioSide by side
| Figure | Infinity | Pinecone |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | $20/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | — | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 0 | 5 |
| Spec score · Vector Databases | 7.8 (#14) | 8.9 (#2) |
| Full-text search | The search guide says full-text indexing requires specifying a tokenizer or analyzer, and most built-in analyzers require resource files. | Full-text search adds BM25 ranking, Lucene syntax, fuzzy matching and text-match filters, with tokenization and stemming for 18 languages. |
| Search | It supports hybrid search across dense embeddings, sparse embeddings, tensors, and full text, with filtering. | The database supports dense, sparse, and full-text indexes, metadata filters, and namespaces. |
| Vector search | The search guide says HNSW is aimed at faster dense-vector search and IVF uses less memory; incoming streaming vectors are searched by brute force alongside indexed results. | The service stores dense and sparse vectors and performs approximate nearest-neighbor similarity search. |
Plans
Pinecone
- Builder$20 a month
- Standard$50 a month
- Enterprise$500 a month
- StarterFree
- Bring your own cloud (BYOC)Priced on request
In their own words
Pinecone
Pinecone is a fully managed vector database for AI workloads, available through web and API access. Its stated uses include semantic search, recommendations and retrieval-augmented generation. It supports dense, sparse and full-text indexes, metadata filters and namespaces; the maker says automatic indexing makes new writes searchable within seconds. Listed integrations include LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI, Cohere, Databricks, Snowflake and Airbyte. The free Starter plan has limits including one project, two users, five indexes and 100 namespaces per index. Builder costs $20 a month. Standard is $50 a month minimum applied to usage, with usage above that minimum charged pay-as-you-go; Enterprise is $500 a month minimum on the same basis. Pinecone says it encrypts data at rest and in transit and supports API-key roles and RBAC. It lists SOC 2 Type II certification, HIPAA compliance with a BAA available on request, GDPR readiness and a 99.95% uptime SLA. Its TypeScript SDK is intended for server-side use because browser use can expose API keys.