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Pinecone vs Timescale Cloud
Compare Pinecone, Timescale Cloud by database engines, storage, compute, backups, branching and vector-search features.
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20 GB
Pinecone
$57 / mo
Standard · 20 GB storage
Timescale Cloud
$34 / mo
Performance · 20 GB storage
Listed USD plan fees and tracked usage only. Unlisted compute, transfer, extras, taxes and contract terms are excluded. Custom or unsupported plan usage is not estimated.
Databases & Vector overview & pricing
| Databases & Vector | Pinecone | Timescale Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Pinecone | Timescale |
| Billing unit | GB storage | GB storage |
| Plan at selected usage | Standard | Performance |
| Monthly estimate | $57/mo | $34/mo |
| Workload | 20 GB storage | 20 GB storage |
| Free access | 2 GB starter | 30-day trial |
| Published plans | Starter, Builder, Standard, Enterprise | Performance, Scale, Enterprise |
| Prices checked | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-08 |
Provider
- Pinecone
- Pinecone
- Timescale Cloud
- Timescale
Billing unit
- Pinecone
- GB storage
- Timescale Cloud
- GB storage
Plan at selected usage
- Pinecone
- Standard
- Timescale Cloud
- Performance
Monthly estimate
- Pinecone
- $57/mo
- Timescale Cloud
- $34/mo
Workload
- Pinecone
- 20 GB storage
- Timescale Cloud
- 20 GB storage
Free access
- Pinecone
- 2 GB starter
- Timescale Cloud
- 30-day trial
Published plans
- Pinecone
- Starter, Builder, Standard, Enterprise
- Timescale Cloud
- Performance, Scale, Enterprise
Prices checked
- Pinecone
- 2026-10-08
- Timescale Cloud
- 2026-10-08
Databases & Vector monthly cost
Pinecone: $57Timescale Cloud: $34
Cost by GB storage
Cost curve data
| GB storage | Pinecone | Timescale Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | $0 | $30 |
| 5 | $20 | $31 |
| 10 | $20 | $32 |
| 20 | $57 | $34 |
| 40 | $63 | $37 |
| 100 | $83 | $48 |
| 200 | $116 | $65 |
0
- Pinecone
- $0
- Timescale Cloud
- $30
5
- Pinecone
- $20
- Timescale Cloud
- $31
10
- Pinecone
- $20
- Timescale Cloud
- $32
20
- Pinecone
- $57
- Timescale Cloud
- $34
40
- Pinecone
- $63
- Timescale Cloud
- $37
100
- Pinecone
- $83
- Timescale Cloud
- $48
200
- Pinecone
- $116
- Timescale Cloud
- $65
Databases & Vector feature comparison
| Databases & Vector | Pinecone | Timescale Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Uptime SLA | Not listed | |
| Support | Free support included | Not listed |
| Cloud Availability | AWS, Azure, GCP | Not listed |
| Region Availability | All available regions | Not listed |
| Dedicated Read Nodes | Not listed | |
| Index Types | Dense, Sparse, and Full-Text | Not listed |
| Indexes | 20 per project | Not listed |
| Namespaces per Index | 100,000 | Not listed |
| Embedding Models | All available models | Not listed |
| Reranking Models | All available models | Not listed |
| Console Index Metrics | Not listed | |
| Prometheus and Datadog Monitoring | Not listed | |
| Database - Storage | Unlimited $0.33/GB/mo | Not listed |
| Database - Write Units | Unlimited $4-$4.50 per million (varies by cloud and region) | Not listed |
| Database - Read Units | Unlimited $16-$18 per million (varies by cloud and region) | Not listed |
| Database - Egress | Unlimited $0.10/GB 100GB/mo included | Not listed |
| Import from object storage | $0.25 per GB | Not listed |
| Backups | $0.10/GB/mo | Not listed |
| Restore from backup | $0.15 per GB | Not listed |
| Cross-region restore | Cross-region transfer pricing applies | Not listed |
| Assistant - Document Limit | Unlimited | Not listed |
| Assistant - Storage | Unlimited $3/GB/mo | Not listed |
| Assistant - Input Tokens | Unlimited $8 per million | Not listed |
| Assistant - Output Tokens | Unlimited $15 per million | Not listed |
| Assistant - Context Processed Tokens | Unlimited $5 per million | Not listed |
| Assistant - Evaluation Processed Tokens | Unlimited $8 per million | Not listed |
| Assistant - Evaluation Output Tokens | Unlimited $15 per million | Not listed |
| Assistant - Ingestion Units | $0.0005/ingestion unit $0.001/ingestion unit for multi-modal (400 tokens/~300 words per ingestion unit) | Not listed |
| Assistant - Region | Any | Not listed |
| Inference - llama-text-embed-v2 | Unlimited $0.16/M tokens | Not listed |
| Inference - multilingual-e5-large | Unlimited $0.08/M tokens | Not listed |
| Inference - pinecone-sparse-english-v0 | Unlimited $0.08/M tokens | Not listed |
| Inference - bge-reranker-v2-m3 | Unlimited $2/1k requests | Not listed |
| Inference - pinecone-rerank-v0 | Unlimited $2/1k requests | Not listed |
| Inference - cohere-rerank-4-fast | Unlimited $2/1k rerank units | Not listed |
| Projects | 20 | Not listed |
| Users | Unlimited | Not listed |
| Admin API | Not listed | |
| SSO (SAML 2.0) | Not listed | |
| SAML roles | Not listed | |
| SCIM | Not listed | |
| Service Accounts | Not listed | |
| Encryption at rest and in transit | Not listed | |
| RBAC | Not listed | |
| Audit Logs | Not listed | |
| Private Endpoints | Not listed | |
| Customer Managed Encryption Keys | Not listed | |
| SOC 2 | Not listed | |
| GDPR | Not listed | |
| ISO 27001 | Not listed | |
| HIPAA | $190/mo | Not listed |
| Number of database services | Not listed | Up to 4 |
| CPU per service | Not listed | Up to 8 CPU |
| Memory per service | Not listed | Up to 32GB |
| Storage per service | Not listed | Up to 16TB |
| Tiered storage | Not listed | |
| Independently scale compute and storage | Not listed | |
| Relational | Not listed | |
| Time-series | Not listed | |
| Vector search | Not listed | |
| AI workflows | Not listed | |
| Cloud SQL editor | Not listed | |
| Charts | Not listed | |
| Dashboards | Not listed | |
| IOPS (autoscales) | Not listed | 3,000 - 5,000 |
| Bandwidth (autoscales) | Not listed | 125 - 250 MB/s |
| I/O Boost | Not listed | |
| High-availability replicas (Automated multi-AZ failover) | Not listed | 1 HA replica |
| Read replicas | Not listed | |
| Point-in-time recovery and forking | Not listed | 3 days |
| Cross-region backups | Not listed | |
| Performance insights | Not listed | |
| Metrics and log exporters | Not listed | |
| End-to-end encryption | Not listed | |
| Private Networking (VPC) | Not listed | 1 multi-attach VPC |
| Multi-factor authentication | Not listed | |
| Federated authentication (SAML) | Not listed | |
| Enforced MFA/SSO | Not listed | |
| SOC 2 Type 2 report | Not listed | |
| HIPAA compliance | Not listed | |
| Penetration testing report | Not listed | |
| Security questionnaire and review | Not listed | |
| Pay by invoice | Not listed | Available at minimum spend |
| Uptime SLAs | Not listed | Standard |
| Community support | Not listed | |
| Basic support (email) | Not listed | |
| Production support (24x7) | Not listed | Add-on |
| Named account manager | Not listed | |
| JOIN services (Jumpstart Onboarding and Integration) | Not listed |
Uptime SLA
- Pinecone
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Support
- Pinecone
- Free support included
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Cloud Availability
- Pinecone
- AWS, Azure, GCP
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Region Availability
- Pinecone
- All available regions
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Dedicated Read Nodes
- Pinecone
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Index Types
- Pinecone
- Dense, Sparse, and Full-Text
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Indexes
- Pinecone
- 20 per project
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Namespaces per Index
- Pinecone
- 100,000
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Embedding Models
- Pinecone
- All available models
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Reranking Models
- Pinecone
- All available models
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Console Index Metrics
- Pinecone
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Prometheus and Datadog Monitoring
- Pinecone
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Database - Storage
- Pinecone
- Unlimited $0.33/GB/mo
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Database - Write Units
- Pinecone
- Unlimited $4-$4.50 per million (varies by cloud and region)
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Database - Read Units
- Pinecone
- Unlimited $16-$18 per million (varies by cloud and region)
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Database - Egress
- Pinecone
- Unlimited $0.10/GB 100GB/mo included
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Import from object storage
- Pinecone
- $0.25 per GB
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Backups
- Pinecone
- $0.10/GB/mo
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Restore from backup
- Pinecone
- $0.15 per GB
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Cross-region restore
- Pinecone
- Cross-region transfer pricing applies
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Assistant - Document Limit
- Pinecone
- Unlimited
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Assistant - Storage
- Pinecone
- Unlimited $3/GB/mo
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Assistant - Input Tokens
- Pinecone
- Unlimited $8 per million
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Assistant - Output Tokens
- Pinecone
- Unlimited $15 per million
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Assistant - Context Processed Tokens
- Pinecone
- Unlimited $5 per million
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Assistant - Evaluation Processed Tokens
- Pinecone
- Unlimited $8 per million
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Assistant - Evaluation Output Tokens
- Pinecone
- Unlimited $15 per million
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Assistant - Ingestion Units
- Pinecone
- $0.0005/ingestion unit $0.001/ingestion unit for multi-modal (400 tokens/~300 words per ingestion unit)
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Assistant - Region
- Pinecone
- Any
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Inference - llama-text-embed-v2
- Pinecone
- Unlimited $0.16/M tokens
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Inference - multilingual-e5-large
- Pinecone
- Unlimited $0.08/M tokens
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Inference - pinecone-sparse-english-v0
- Pinecone
- Unlimited $0.08/M tokens
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Inference - bge-reranker-v2-m3
- Pinecone
- Unlimited $2/1k requests
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Inference - pinecone-rerank-v0
- Pinecone
- Unlimited $2/1k requests
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Inference - cohere-rerank-4-fast
- Pinecone
- Unlimited $2/1k rerank units
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Projects
- Pinecone
- 20
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Users
- Pinecone
- Unlimited
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Admin API
- Pinecone
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
SSO (SAML 2.0)
- Pinecone
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
SAML roles
- Pinecone
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
SCIM
- Pinecone
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Service Accounts
- Pinecone
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Encryption at rest and in transit
- Pinecone
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
RBAC
- Pinecone
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Audit Logs
- Pinecone
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Private Endpoints
- Pinecone
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Customer Managed Encryption Keys
- Pinecone
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
SOC 2
- Pinecone
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
GDPR
- Pinecone
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
ISO 27001
- Pinecone
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
HIPAA
- Pinecone
- $190/mo
- Timescale Cloud
- Not listed
Number of database services
- Pinecone
- Not listed
- Timescale Cloud
- Up to 4
CPU per service
- Pinecone
- Not listed
- Timescale Cloud
- Up to 8 CPU
Memory per service
- Pinecone
- Not listed
- Timescale Cloud
- Up to 32GB
Storage per service
- Pinecone
- Not listed
- Timescale Cloud
- Up to 16TB
Tiered storage
- Pinecone
- Not listed
- Timescale Cloud
Independently scale compute and storage
- Pinecone
- Not listed
- Timescale Cloud
Relational
- Pinecone
- Not listed
- Timescale Cloud
Time-series
- Pinecone
- Not listed
- Timescale Cloud
Vector search
- Pinecone
- Not listed
- Timescale Cloud
AI workflows
- Pinecone
- Not listed
- Timescale Cloud
Cloud SQL editor
- Pinecone
- Not listed
- Timescale Cloud
Charts
- Pinecone
- Not listed
- Timescale Cloud
Dashboards
- Pinecone
- Not listed
- Timescale Cloud
IOPS (autoscales)
- Pinecone
- Not listed
- Timescale Cloud
- 3,000 - 5,000
Bandwidth (autoscales)
- Pinecone
- Not listed
- Timescale Cloud
- 125 - 250 MB/s
I/O Boost
- Pinecone
- Not listed
- Timescale Cloud
High-availability replicas (Automated multi-AZ failover)
- Pinecone
- Not listed
- Timescale Cloud
- 1 HA replica
Read replicas
- Pinecone
- Not listed
- Timescale Cloud
Point-in-time recovery and forking
- Pinecone
- Not listed
- Timescale Cloud
- 3 days
Cross-region backups
- Pinecone
- Not listed
- Timescale Cloud
Performance insights
- Pinecone
- Not listed
- Timescale Cloud
Metrics and log exporters
- Pinecone
- Not listed
- Timescale Cloud
End-to-end encryption
- Pinecone
- Not listed
- Timescale Cloud
Private Networking (VPC)
- Pinecone
- Not listed
- Timescale Cloud
- 1 multi-attach VPC
Multi-factor authentication
- Pinecone
- Not listed
- Timescale Cloud
Federated authentication (SAML)
- Pinecone
- Not listed
- Timescale Cloud
Enforced MFA/SSO
- Pinecone
- Not listed
- Timescale Cloud
SOC 2 Type 2 report
- Pinecone
- Not listed
- Timescale Cloud
HIPAA compliance
- Pinecone
- Not listed
- Timescale Cloud
Penetration testing report
- Pinecone
- Not listed
- Timescale Cloud
Security questionnaire and review
- Pinecone
- Not listed
- Timescale Cloud
Pay by invoice
- Pinecone
- Not listed
- Timescale Cloud
- Available at minimum spend
Uptime SLAs
- Pinecone
- Not listed
- Timescale Cloud
- Standard
Community support
- Pinecone
- Not listed
- Timescale Cloud
Basic support (email)
- Pinecone
- Not listed
- Timescale Cloud
Production support (24x7)
- Pinecone
- Not listed
- Timescale Cloud
- Add-on
Named account manager
- Pinecone
- Not listed
- Timescale Cloud
JOIN services (Jumpstart Onboarding and Integration)
- Pinecone
- Not listed
- Timescale Cloud
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Which database providers fit your needs?
Pinecone features & plan notes
- Serverless vector DB
- Hybrid search
- 3 week trial includes $300 credits
- Everything in Builder
- Pay-as-you-go for Database On-Demand, Inference, and Assistant Usage
- Choose your cloud and region
- Dedicated Read Nodes (DRN)
- Import from object storage
- Backup and Restore
- RBAC
- SSO (SAML 2.0)
- HIPAA add-on
- Includes Free support
- Response SLAs available via Developer or Pro support add-on
Timescale Cloud features & plan notes
- Postgres time-series
- Compression
- Continuous aggregates
- 4 database services
- Up to 8 CPU and 32 GB memory per service
- Up to 16 TB disk storage per service
- Up to 5K IOPS, 250 MB/s throughput
- 1 VPC
- 1 IP Allow-list
- Single-node high-availability replicas
- Point-in-time-recovery to 3 days
- Performance Insights
- Basic support (9-5 ET)
How to compare database providers
Start with the engine and workload: relational databases, vector indexes and Redis services are not interchangeable. Storage estimates do not include unlisted compute, query, replication or network charges. Check backup retention, regions and scaling behavior.
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