Pinecone API
pinecone.ioVector database API for semantic search, knowledge retrieval, and AI assistant applications, with indexing, data management, and inference operations.
The Pinecone API API uses api key authentication; has freemium pricing; offers a free tier (Starter plan is $0/month with limits such as 5 indexes, 2 GB data, 1,000 ingestion units/month, 500,000 chat input tokens/month included); rate limits: Assistant API rate limits vary by plan, e.g. Starter: 40 list/get req/min, 5 file upload req/min, 100,000 chat input tokens/min; exceeding returns 429 TOO_MANY_REQUESTS. Most limits adjustable on request. Verified 2026-07-08 with per-field source links.
Base URL
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no sourceFree tier
Starter plan is $0/month with limits such as 5 indexes, 2 GB data, 1,000 ingestion units/month, 500,000 chat input tokens/month included
docs.pinecone.io ↗Pricing
Minimum monthly usage: Starter $0, Builder $20 flat, Standard $50, Enterprise $500. Standard/Enterprise: chat input $8/M tokens, chat output $15/M tokens, context $5/M tokens, storage $3/GB/month, ingestion $0.0005/unit
docs.pinecone.io ↗Rate limits
Assistant API rate limits vary by plan, e.g. Starter: 40 list/get req/min, 5 file upload req/min, 100,000 chat input tokens/min; exceeding returns 429 TOO_MANY_REQUESTS. Most limits adjustable on request
docs.pinecone.io ↗OpenAPI spec
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no sourceMCP server
Pinecone MCP server and Assistant MCP server available for AI agent integration via Model Context Protocol
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