Pricing
Pinecone pricing context
Human-reviewed pricing summary paired with DevTune’s public AI search visibility benchmark.
Pinecone offers three tiers: Starter (free, limited to AWS us-east-1, up to 2GB storage, 5 indexes, community support); Standard ($50/month minimum, pay-as-you-go for storage at $0.33/GB/mo, read units at $16–$18/million, write units at $4–$4.50/million depending on cloud/region, SAML SSO, RBAC, backup/restore, HIPAA add-on available at $190/mo); and Enterprise ($500/month minimum, includes 99.95% uptime SLA, private networking, customer-managed encryption keys, audit logs, admin APIs, HIPAA compliance, Pro support). A Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) option is available for organizations requiring maximum security and control, priced on request. Pinecone is also purchasable via AWS, GCP, and Azure Marketplace. A 3-week free trial with $300 in credits is available on Standard.