Pinecone
Company Overview
As of September 3, 2026: Pinecone is a vector database for AI developers whose 99.94% observed uptime and full enterprise compliance stack make it a credible production choice today.
Tiers run from a free Starter plan through $500/month Enterprise, with usage-based add-ons for inference, reranking, and storage that can compound quickly at scale. The company holds SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, and ISO 27001, and HIPAA compliance is available as a $190/month add-on on Standard, not bundled into base tiers.
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uptime 90d
99.94%
Sep 2026
open roles
6
Sep 2026
integrations
6
Sep 2026
technologies
26
observed
dated changes
872
Sep 2026
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PricingBacked by 31 dated facts
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Self-serve, free tier
The jump from Standard ($50/mo) to Enterprise ($500/mo) is steep, and a solo developer building on the free Starter tier will hit that gap fast once usage-based charges for storage ($0.33/GB/month), egress ($0.10/GB), and reranking ($2/1k requests) accumulate; enterprise buyers on annual contracts ($240–$6k/yr) have more predictable exposure.
Full pricing read →Features
Reranking platform
Pinecone states 17 capabilities including reranking via BGE Reranker V2 M3, Cohere Rerank 4 Fast, and its own Pinecone Rerank V0, plus 6 integrations; buyers should verify which capabilities are gated to which tier before assuming full feature access at lower price points.
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Security
Enterprise-grade
SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, ISO 27001, and GDPR coverage with data residency across US, EU, and Global regions means regulated-industry buyers can clear most procurement checklists, though HIPAA is a paid add-on rather than included.
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Reliability
Dependable
The public status page shows 99.94% uptime over the past 90 days with 2 incidents in that window, and current status is operational; this is independently observed data, not a stated SLA, so buyers should confirm contractual uptime commitments separately.
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Hiring
6 open roles
Only 6 open roles across marketing and R&D, with remote options available; a thin hiring footprint at this stage suggests the core product team is largely built out, though it also limits how fast the company can expand support or new feature work.
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Stack
Detected + stated stack
AWS and React are confirmed both on the live site and in job postings; postings additionally reference Azure, Go, C, and Elasticsearch, indicating a multi-cloud backend that a buyer integrating deeply should account for in their own architecture planning.
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Positioning
Vector Database
The homepage headline 'Give agents knowledge' frames Pinecone squarely around AI agent use cases, and the sub-headline explicitly calls out retrieval cost scaling as a differentiator; buyers evaluating for agentic workloads are the stated target, not general-purpose database users.
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Funding
$138M raised across 3 rounds
Pinecone raised a $100M Series B in April 2023 led by Andreessen Horowitz at a $750M valuation, bringing total funding to $138M across 3 rounds; no funding activity is noted after that date, so runway and burn assumptions rest on 2023 data.
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Location
San Francisco, CA · +1 office
Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, with no stated remote or hybrid work model policy; buyers requiring on-site engagement or local support should confirm availability directly.
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Legal
Pinecone Systems, Inc. · Delaware, US
The registered entity is Pinecone Systems, Inc., incorporated in Delaware; governing law, arbitration terms, class-action waiver, and auto-renewal clauses are not publicly stated, so enterprise buyers should expect to negotiate these in contract.
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Change History872 dated events on the record
Hiring changed: Gtm · high significance
Job-posting decline: Open Roles · high significance
Feature removed: GCP Private Service Connect · high significance
Feature removed: AWS Privatelink · high significance
Reliability changed: Incidents 90d
Feature removed: Azure Private Link · high significance
Job-posting decline: Open Roles · high significance
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