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Pinecone

Pinecone Systems, Inc.·Pinecone.io
Pricing Strategy

Self-serve, free tier

As of September 3, 2026, Pinecone's pricing: 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.

Backed by 31 dated facts
Every value derives from a dated, sourced capture — open any fact for its source.
Builder
$20/mo
Bring Your Own Cloud
Contact sales
Enterprise
$500/mo
Standard
$50/mo
Starter
Free
Details
Modelhybrid
Usage assistant Context Processed Tokens per_unit5 usd per 1m tokens
Usage assistant Evaluation Output Tokens per_unit15 usd per 1m tokens
Usage assistant Evaluation Processed Tokens per_unit8 usd per 1m tokens
Usage assistant Ingestion Units Multi Modal per_unit0.001 usd per ingestion unit
Usage assistant Ingestion Units per_unit0.0005 usd per ingestion unit
Usage assistant Input Tokens per_unit8 usd per 1m tokens
Usage assistant Output Tokens per_unit15 usd per 1m tokens
Usage assistant Storage Standard per_unit3 usd per gb month
Usage backups per_unit0.1 usd per gb month
Usage egress Standard per_unit0.1 usd per gb
Usage hipaa Add On Standard per_unit190 usd per month
Usage import From Object Storage per_unit0.25 usd per gb
Usage inference Llama Text Embed V2 per_unit0.16 usd per 1m tokens
Usage inference Multilingual E5 Large per_unit0.08 usd per 1m tokens
Usage inference Pinecone Sparse English V0 per_unit0.08 usd per 1m tokens
Usage reranking Bge Reranker V2 M3 per_unit2 usd per 1k requests
Usage reranking Cohere Rerank 4 Fast per_unit2 usd per 1k rerank units
Usage reranking Pinecone Rerank V0 per_unit2 usd per 1k requests
Usage restore From Backup per_unit0.15 usd per gb
Usage storage Database Standard per_unit0.33 usd per gb month
Pricing Change Historydated events · values unlock with a key
Pricing changed: Assistant Ingestion Units Standard usage rate · high significance
Pricing changed: Assistant Storage Standard usage rate · high significance
Pricing changed: Assistant Evaluation Output Tokens Standard usage rate · high significance
Pricing changed: Assistant Evaluation Processed Tokens Standard usage rate · high significance
Pricing changed: Assistant Input Tokens Standard usage rate · high significance
Pricing changed: Assistant Output Tokens Standard usage rate · high significance
Pricing changed: Assistant Context Processed Tokens Standard usage rate · high significance
Pricing changed: Egress Standard usage rate · high significance
Every pricing fact on this pagekey · value · provenance · dated · sourced
FactValueProvenanceAs ofSource
pricing.modelhybridcompany stated2026-09-03www.pinecone.io/pricing/
pricing.tier.builder.monthly_usd20 usd per monthcompany stated2026-09-03www.pinecone.io/pricing/
pricing.tier.builder.nameBuildercompany stated2026-09-03www.pinecone.io/pricing/
pricing.tier.byoc.is_contact_salesyescompany stated2026-09-03www.pinecone.io/pricing/
pricing.tier.byoc.nameBring Your Own Cloudcompany stated2026-09-03www.pinecone.io/pricing/
pricing.tier.enterprise.monthly_usd500 usd per monthcompany stated2026-09-03www.pinecone.io/pricing/
pricing.tier.enterprise.nameEnterprisecompany stated2026-09-03www.pinecone.io/pricing/
pricing.tier.pro.monthly_usd50 usd per monthcompany stated2026-09-03www.pinecone.io/pricing/
pricing.tier.pro.nameStandardcompany stated2026-09-03www.pinecone.io/pricing/
pricing.tier.starter.is_freeyescompany stated2026-09-03www.pinecone.io/pricing/
pricing.tier.starter.nameStartercompany stated2026-09-03www.pinecone.io/pricing/
pricing.usage.assistant-context-processed-tokens.per_unit5 usd per 1m tokenscompany stated2026-09-03www.pinecone.io/pricing/
pricing.usage.assistant-evaluation-output-tokens.per_unit15 usd per 1m tokenscompany stated2026-09-03www.pinecone.io/pricing/
pricing.usage.assistant-evaluation-processed-tokens.per_unit8 usd per 1m tokenscompany stated2026-09-03www.pinecone.io/pricing/
pricing.usage.assistant-ingestion-units-multi-modal.per_unit0.001 usd per ingestion unitcompany stated2026-09-03www.pinecone.io/pricing/
pricing.usage.assistant-ingestion-units.per_unit0.0005 usd per ingestion unitcompany stated2026-09-03www.pinecone.io/pricing/
pricing.usage.assistant-input-tokens.per_unit8 usd per 1m tokenscompany stated2026-09-03www.pinecone.io/pricing/
pricing.usage.assistant-output-tokens.per_unit15 usd per 1m tokenscompany stated2026-09-03www.pinecone.io/pricing/
pricing.usage.assistant-storage-standard.per_unit3 usd per gb monthcompany stated2026-09-03www.pinecone.io/pricing/
pricing.usage.backups.per_unit0.1 usd per gb monthcompany stated2026-09-03www.pinecone.io/pricing/
pricing.usage.egress-standard.per_unit0.1 usd per gbcompany stated2026-09-03www.pinecone.io/pricing/
pricing.usage.hipaa-add-on-standard.per_unit190 usd per monthcompany stated2026-09-03www.pinecone.io/pricing/
pricing.usage.import-from-object-storage.per_unit0.25 usd per gbcompany stated2026-09-03www.pinecone.io/pricing/
pricing.usage.inference-llama-text-embed-v2.per_unit0.16 usd per 1m tokenscompany stated2026-09-03www.pinecone.io/pricing/
pricing.usage.inference-multilingual-e5-large.per_unit0.08 usd per 1m tokenscompany stated2026-09-03www.pinecone.io/pricing/
pricing.usage.inference-pinecone-sparse-english-v0.per_unit0.08 usd per 1m tokenscompany stated2026-09-03www.pinecone.io/pricing/
pricing.usage.reranking-bge-reranker-v2-m3.per_unit2 usd per 1k requestscompany stated2026-09-03www.pinecone.io/pricing/
pricing.usage.reranking-cohere-rerank-4-fast.per_unit2 usd per 1k rerank unitscompany stated2026-09-03www.pinecone.io/pricing/
pricing.usage.reranking-pinecone-rerank-v0.per_unit2 usd per 1k requestscompany stated2026-09-03www.pinecone.io/pricing/
pricing.usage.restore-from-backup.per_unit0.15 usd per gbcompany stated2026-09-03www.pinecone.io/pricing/
pricing.usage.storage-database-standard.per_unit0.33 usd per gb monthcompany stated2026-09-03www.pinecone.io/pricing/
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Get pricing for pinecone.io via API / MCPevery field dated and sourced
RESTopen tier
GET https://api.bixel.com/v1/companies/pinecone.io/facts?dimension=pricing

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MCPfor agents
# any MCP client (Claude, agents)
const record = await bixel.get_company_facts({ domain: "pinecone.io", dimension: "pricing" })

# returns the pricing record above,
# each value with its source_url + as_of,
# ready to reason over
Build on the company record. One key, REST + MCP, every signal dated and sourced back to the page it came from.

Public record, read from companies' own pages and boards. Every fact dated and sourced; provenance (observed vs company stated) shown inline.