Yes. Pinecone has a Starter plan at $0/month that includes 2 GB storage. It does not allow paid overages, so you must upgrade once you exceed it.

What is the cheapest paid Pinecone plan?

Standard starts at $50/month, then $0.33 per extra GB storage.

How much does Pinecone cost for 20 GB storage?

At 20 GB storage per month, the cheapest option is Standard at about $57/month before taxes and add-ons.

How is Pinecone billed?

Standard has a $50/month minimum usage. Storage $0.33/GB-month; read units and write units are billed separately. Starter is free with 2 GB storage.

What are the best Pinecone alternatives?

Popular alternatives are Qdrant Cloud, Weaviate Cloud, Supabase. Compare their plans side by side on this page.

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Q: How much does Pinecone cost?

Pinecone has 3 plans: Starter ($0/mo, 2 GB storage included); Standard ($50/mo, then $0.33 per GB storage); Enterprise ($500/mo, then $0.33 per GB storage).

Fully managed serverless vector database for RAG and semantic search.

Starts at: $50/mo
Free plan: Yes
Plans: 3
Billed by: GB storage

Plans at a glance

Pinecone plans and prices

Estimated from public pricing · 2026-09-25

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Storage

20 GB

Standard estimate

$57/mo

$50/mo, then $0.33 per GB storage

Estimate covers the main usage meter only; taxes and add-ons are excluded.

Pinecone plans at 20

vs alternatives (cheapest plan)

How much does Pinecone cost per month?


2	$0	$51	$501
10	—	$53	$503
20	—	$57	$507
100	—	$83	$533
400	—	$182	$632

Starter: $0
Standard: $51
Enterprise: $501

Starter: —
Standard: $53
Enterprise: $503

Starter: —
Standard: $57
Enterprise: $507

100

Starter: —
Standard: $83
Enterprise: $533

400

Starter: —
Standard: $182
Enterprise: $632

Cheapest plan per volume highlighted. "—" means the plan does not allow that volume.

Pinecone plan feature comparison


Backups & restore	None	Backups	Backups
Branching	Not included	Not included	Not included
Compute	1M read units/mo	$16/M read units	$24/M read units
Database engine	Serverless vector	Serverless vector	Serverless vector
Regions / clouds	AWS us-east-1	AWS, GCP, Azure	AWS, GCP, Azure
Storage	2 GB	$0.33/GB-month	$0.33/GB-month
Support	Community	Email	Pro support
Uptime SLA	Not included	Not included	99.95%

Backups & restore

Starter: None
Standard: Backups
Enterprise: Backups

Branching

Starter: Not included
Standard: Not included
Enterprise: Not included

Compute

Starter: 1M read units/mo
Standard: $16/M read units
Enterprise: $24/M read units

Database engine

Starter: Serverless vector
Standard: Serverless vector
Enterprise: Serverless vector

Regions / clouds

Starter: AWS us-east-1
Standard: AWS, GCP, Azure
Enterprise: AWS, GCP, Azure

Storage

Starter: 2 GB
Standard: $0.33/GB-month
Enterprise: $0.33/GB-month

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How Pinecone pricing works

Pinecone Serverless bills storage per GB-month plus read and write units. Standard and Enterprise have a monthly minimum usage commitment.

Standard has a $50/month minimum usage.
Storage $0.33/GB-month; read units and write units are billed separately.
Starter is free with 2 GB storage.

Pinecone is best for

Production RAG

Teams wanting zero ops

Hybrid search at scale

Pinecone alternatives

Qdrant Cloud

$22/mo at 20

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Weaviate Cloud

$27/mo at 20

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Supabase

$27/mo at 20

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Source: official Pinecone pricing page. Estimated 2026-09-25. Prices change — confirm before buying.