Pinecone

Pinecone is a fully managed vector database and AI infrastructure platform designed to help teams build knowledgeable AI applications, search systems, and AI agents. They provide scalable infrastructure for storing and retrieving information using dense, sparse, and full-text indexes, helping AI applications access relevant knowledge quickly. Their platform supports semantic search, recommendation engines, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and production-grade AI applications. They are designed for developers, AI teams, startups, and enterprises that need reliable infrastructure for connecting their applications with large amounts of structured and unstructured information.

They provide several products for building and operating AI applications, including Pinecone Database, Inference, Assistant, and Nexus. Their Inference service provides access to embedding and reranking models, while Pinecone Assistant helps teams build production-grade chat and agent-based applications. Their Nexus knowledge engine is designed to provide AI agents with a dedicated knowledge layer that handles retrieval, knowledge assembly, and reasoning workloads. They also provide dedicated read nodes, object-storage imports, backup and restore, monitoring, and bring-your-own-cloud capabilities for teams with more advanced infrastructure requirements.

Pinecone offers plans designed for different stages of AI development, from experimentation to mission-critical production workloads. Their Starter plan is free and includes access to core database, inference, and assistant capabilities, while the Builder plan starts at $20 per month with increased usage limits and additional team features. Their Standard plan starts at a $50 monthly minimum and includes a 3-week trial with $300 in credits, while Enterprise starts at a $500 monthly minimum and provides advanced security, compliance, and support features. They allow teams to start building for free and scale usage as their AI applications grow.