Pinecone Starter Plan
Free Pinecone vector database: 2 GB storage, 5 serverless indexes
What you get from Pinecone Starter Plan for free
Overview
Pinecone is a managed serverless vector database. Its free Starter plan covers a small RAG or semantic search project: up to 2 GB of storage across 5 serverless indexes, with monthly read and write units and free hosted embeddings.
Free Tier Quotas & Limits
- Up to 2 GB storage, 5 serverless indexes, 100 namespaces per index
- Up to 1M read units and 2M write units per month; up to 1 GB egress per month
- 1 project, up to 2 users
- AWS
us-east-1only - Hosted inference: 5M tokens per month each on llama-text-embed-v2, multilingual-e5-large and pinecone-sparse-english-v0; 500 rerank requests per month on bge-reranker-v2-m3
- Assistant: 1 GB storage and monthly token allowances
- Community support via Discord
How to Get Started
- Sign up at pinecone.io; a credit card is only asked for when you upgrade.
- Create a serverless index (AWS us-east-1) and copy your API key.
- Upsert vectors with the Python or TypeScript SDK, or let Pinecone embed text with a hosted model.
Early-stage startups can apply to the Pinecone startup program for the Standard tier.
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