Pinecone Cost Calculator

Calculate Pinecone Database Costs

Estimate your monthly costs for Pinecone vector database. Compare Serverless vs Pod-based deployments with detailed pricing breakdowns.

Pinecone Cost Calculator

Calculate your estimated monthly costs for Pinecone Database based on your usage patterns.

Configuration

Quick Examples

Cost Estimate

$0.00
per month

Breakdown

Platform Fee $0.00
Monthly subscription Credits: $0
Index Cost $0.00
Read Units: 0 Cost: $0.00
Write Units: 0 Cost: $0.00
Storage: 0 GB Cost: $0.00
Pod configuration
Total Monthly Cost $0.00

Calculation Notes

Read Units based on records, dimensions, and top_k
Write Units: ~4-7 WU per upsert (dimensions dependent)
Storage: Estimated at ~4 bytes per dimension

About Pinecone

What is Pinecone?

Pinecone is a fully managed vector database designed for production AI applications. It provides fast, accurate similarity search at scale for RAG systems, semantic search, and recommendation engines.

  • Serverless architecture for auto-scaling and cost efficiency
  • Pod-based deployment for dedicated resources and performance
  • Hybrid search combining dense and sparse vectors

Deployment Types

Serverless (Recommended):

Pay-as-you-go pricing based on read/write units and storage. Automatically scales with your usage. Best for variable workloads and getting started.

  • • Free Starter plan with 2M free RUs/month
  • • Read Units: $0.40 per million (after free tier)
  • • Write Units: $2.00 per million
  • • Storage: $0.00005 per GB-hour
Pod-based:

Fixed hourly pricing for dedicated compute resources. Best for predictable, high-throughput workloads requiring consistent performance.

  • • Multiple pod types (p1, s1, p2) and sizes (x1-x8)
  • • Replicas for high availability
  • • Collection storage for backups

Note: This calculator provides estimates based on Pinecone's published pricing. Read/write units are calculated using Pinecone's formulas: query RUs = records × dimensions × top_k / 1000, upsert WUs = dimensions / 1000. Actual costs may vary based on your specific usage patterns. Visit Pinecone's pricing page for official rates.