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Pinecone - Managed Vector Database
The vector database for production AI applications.When to use Pinecone
Use when:- Need managed, serverless vector database
- Production RAG applications
- Auto-scaling required
- Low latency critical (<100ms)
- Don’t want to manage infrastructure
- Need hybrid search (dense + sparse vectors)
- Fully managed SaaS
- Auto-scales to billions of vectors
- p95 latency <100ms
- 99.9% uptime SLA
- Chroma: Self-hosted, open-source
- FAISS: Offline, pure similarity search
- Weaviate: Self-hosted with more features
Quick start
Installation
Note: the oldpinecone-clientpackage is deprecated. Installpinecone(v5+; current 9.x). The import staysfrom pinecone import Pinecone.
Basic usage
Core operations
Create index
Upsert vectors
Query vectors
Metadata filtering
Namespaces
Hybrid search (dense + sparse)
LangChain integration
LlamaIndex integration
Index management
Delete vectors
Best practices
- Use serverless - Auto-scaling, cost-effective
- Batch upserts - More efficient (100-200 per batch)
- Add metadata - Enable filtering
- Use namespaces - Isolate data by user/tenant
- Monitor usage - Check Pinecone dashboard
- Optimize filters - Index frequently filtered fields
- Test with free tier - 1 index, 100K vectors free
- Use hybrid search - Better quality
- Set appropriate dimensions - Match embedding model
- Regular backups - Export important data
Performance
Pricing (as of 2025)
Serverless:- $0.096 per million read units
- $0.06 per million write units
- $0.06 per GB storage/month
- 1 serverless index
- 100K vectors (1536 dimensions)
- Great for prototyping
Resources
- Website: https://www.pinecone.io
- Docs: https://docs.pinecone.io
- Console: https://app.pinecone.io
- Pricing: https://www.pinecone.io/pricing

