Pinecone

Details

Category

Vector Databases & Retrieval Infrastructure

Founded

2019

Status

Active

Open source

No

Pricing

Freemium

Funding stage

Series C

Total raised

—

Popularity

Trending

Modality

Infrastructure

GitHub stars

—

Relationships

14 of 14 confirmed by two independent sources · 12 backed by a published source.

References

Published sources supporting the relationships above.

• Marqo vs. Pinecone Comparison

  unknown publisher · supports Marqo competes with Pinecone

• Marqo Agentic Search & Product Discovery vs Pinecone (2026)

  unknown publisher · supports Marqo competes with Pinecone

• Qdrant vs Pinecone: Vector Databases for AI Apps

  unknown publisher · supports Qdrant competes with Pinecone

• Qdrant vs Pinecone: Key Differences & Comparison

  unknown publisher · supports Qdrant competes with Pinecone

• Pinecone vs Qdrant: Which Vector Database Wins in 2026?

  unknown publisher · supports Qdrant competes with Pinecone

• Pinecone vs Qdrant — Managed Ease or Open-Source Speed? (2026) | MyEngineeringPath

  unknown publisher · supports Qdrant competes with Pinecone

• Turbopuffer vs Pinecone | Vector Database Comparison - Agentset

  unknown publisher · supports Turbopuffer competes with Pinecone

• Best Vector Databases in 2026: A Complete Comparison Guide

  unknown publisher · supports Turbopuffer competes with Pinecone

• Turbopuffer vs Pinecone (2026), Which Vector Database Wins?

  unknown publisher · supports Turbopuffer competes with Pinecone

• Top turbopuffer Alternatives, Competitors

  unknown publisher · supports Turbopuffer competes with Pinecone

• Pinecone vs Weaviate 2026: Full Vector DB Breakdown

  unknown publisher · supports Weaviate competes with Pinecone

• Pinecone vs Weaviate 2026: Vector DB Comparison (Benchmarks)

  unknown publisher · supports Weaviate competes with Pinecone

• Pinecone vs Weaviate (2026): Which Is Better? | ZTABS

  unknown publisher · supports Weaviate competes with Pinecone

• Pinecone vs Weaviate: A 2026 Vector Database Comparison

  unknown publisher · supports Weaviate competes with Pinecone

• Pinecone vs Weaviate 2026: Full Vector DB Breakdown

  unknown publisher · supports Pinecone competes with Weaviate

• Best Vector Database 2025: Pinecone vs Weaviate vs Qdrant vs Milvus – Price & Performance

  unknown publisher · supports Pinecone competes with Weaviate

• Vector Database Comparison: Pinecone vs Weaviate

  unknown publisher · supports Pinecone competes with Weaviate

• Vector Database Comparison 2026: Pinecone vs Weaviate vs Qdrant vs OpenSearch vs Chroma

  unknown publisher · supports Pinecone competes with Weaviate

• Pinecone integration - Docs by LangChain

  unknown publisher · supports Pinecone integrates with LangChain

• LangChain - Pinecone Docs

  unknown publisher · supports Pinecone integrates with LangChain

• Pinecone integration - Docs by LangChain

  unknown publisher · supports Pinecone integrates with LangChain

• Using namespaces in Pinecone with Langchain ConversationalRetrievalChain and OpenAI LLM - API - OpenAI Developer Community

  unknown publisher · supports Pinecone integrates with LangChain

• Qdrant vs Pinecone: Vector Databases for AI Apps

  unknown publisher · supports Pinecone competes with Qdrant

• Pinecone vs Qdrant: Which Vector Database Wins in 2026?

  unknown publisher · supports Pinecone competes with Qdrant

• Qdrant vs Pinecone: Picking the Right Vector Database | Scout

  unknown publisher · supports Pinecone competes with Qdrant

• n8n Vector Databases for RAG: Pinecone vs Weaviate vs Qdrant

  unknown publisher · supports Pinecone competes with Qdrant

• Pinecone vs Qdrant vs Weaviate vs pgvector: 100M Benchmark

  unknown publisher · supports Pinecone competes with Qdrant

• pgvector vs Pinecone 2026: Full Comparison

  unknown publisher · supports Pinecone competes with pgvector

• Pinecone vs pgvector vs Chroma vs Weaviate (2026)

  unknown publisher · supports Pinecone competes with pgvector

• Pinecone vs. Postgres pgvector: For vector search, easy isn’t so easy | Pinecone

  unknown publisher · supports Pinecone competes with pgvector

• pgvector vs Pinecone: cost and performance

  unknown publisher · supports Pinecone competes with pgvector

• Postgres With pgvector vs Pinecone: 1 Million Embeddings, One Honest Comparison - DEV Community

  unknown publisher · supports Pinecone competes with pgvector

• Pinecone vs OpenSearch | Pinecone

  unknown publisher · supports Pinecone competes with OpenSearch

• OpenSearch vs Pinecone (2026)

  unknown publisher · supports Pinecone competes with OpenSearch

• Pinecone vs Weaviate vs OpenSearch: Enterprise | Sphere Inc.

  unknown publisher · supports Pinecone competes with OpenSearch

• Pinecone vs OpenSearch They're Not Really Competitors — And That's the Point

  unknown publisher · supports Pinecone competes with OpenSearch

• LanceDB vs Pinecone | Vector Database Comparison - Agentset

  unknown publisher · supports LanceDB competes with Pinecone

• LanceDB vs Pinecone MCP server

  unknown publisher · supports LanceDB competes with Pinecone

• Pinecone vs LanceDB: Which Is Better? [2026] (compare pinecone vs lancedb) | aitoolsatlas.ai

  unknown publisher · supports LanceDB competes with Pinecone

• What Makes a Good Vector Database? Comparing Pinecone and LanceDB - 57Blocks

  unknown publisher · supports LanceDB competes with Pinecone

• Pinecone vs LanceDB: Vector Database Comparison | Zilliz

  unknown publisher · supports LanceDB competes with Pinecone

• Vector Search Performance Benchmark of SingleStore, Pinecone and Zilliz

  unknown publisher · supports SingleStore competes with Pinecone

• Pinecone vs SingleStore (2026)

  unknown publisher · supports SingleStore competes with Pinecone

• Why TileDB as a Vector Database

  unknown publisher · supports TileDB competes with Pinecone

News

• Exclusive: Pinecone founder Edo Liberty moves from CEO to Chief Scientist, names Googler Ash Ashutosh as leader - Venturebeat
  Venturebeat · 9/8/2025
• Top-Funded AI Database Startup Pinecone Considers a Sale - The Information
  The Information · 8/28/2025
• How AI 'digital minds' startup Delphi stopped drowning in user data and scaled up with Pinecone - Venturebeat
  Venturebeat · 8/21/2025
• Pinecone launches its serverless vector database out of preview - TechCrunch
  TechCrunch · 5/21/2024
• Pinecone - Forbes
  Forbes · 4/11/2024
• Pinecone unveils serverless vector database - Venturebeat
  Venturebeat · 1/16/2024
• Pinecone drops $100M investment on $750M valuation, as vector database demand grows - TechCrunch
  TechCrunch · 4/27/2023
• AI startup Pinecone raises $100 million as vector database market for LLMs heats up - Venturebeat
  Venturebeat · 4/27/2023
• Pinecone announces $28M Series A for purpose-built database aimed at data scientists - TechCrunch
  TechCrunch · 3/29/2022

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