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Pinecone for Startups · Startup program

Startups with fewer than 100 employees at Series A or earlier get free Pinecone Standard Tier plus Pro Support, including usage credits and discounts, though no dollar amount is published.

The catch: No dollar amount is published for the usage credits; eligibility is limited to Series A or earlier with fewer than 100 employees.

• Fewer than 100 employees and Series A or earlier
• Free Standard Tier access plus Pro Support
• Usage credits and discounts, amounts not published

Pinecone Starter Plan · 2 GB

Pinecone's free Starter plan gives one project up to 2 GB of serverless vector storage across 5 indexes, 1M read units and 2M write units a month, plus 5M free tokens a month on its hosted embedding models.

The catch: AWS us-east-1 only, 1 project and 2 users, community support only; going past the monthly read/write units means upgrading to Builder ($20/month flat) or Standard ($50/month minimum).

• 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-1 only
• 5M embedding tokens per month per hosted model; reranking 500 requests per month
• Community support via Discord

Pinecone for Startups

• No credit card needed.
• Needs an account sign-up.
• Startups with fewer than 100 employees at Series A or earlier.
• Available worldwide.
• Apply via the program page; questions to startups@pinecone.io.
• Team size: Fewer than 100 employees.
• Funding stage: At Series A or earlier.

Pinecone Starter Plan

• No credit card needed.
• Needs an account sign-up.