What is Pinecone?
A vector database that makes it easy to build high-performance vector search applications. Developer-friendly, fully managed, and easily scalable without infrastructure hassles.
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Recent Pinecone Launches
Pinecone Assistant API service for grounded chat and agent-based applications
Launched on January 23rd, 2025


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Pinecone Assistant - API service for grounded chat and agent-based applications
Pinecone Assistant is an API service for answering complex questions about your proprietary data accurately and securely. It lets you focus on building your core product, managing all the infrastructure and operations needed for a QA system. Build in minutes!
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4.5/5 based on 20 reviews
Maker reviews of Pinecone


Enabled the ability to have full data isolation due to namespaces. They also provided 2 embedding models for me to start out with


We use Pinecone as our vector database to power Glasp’s AI Clone and Learning Memory. It’s incredibly fast, scalable, and reliable—perfect for managing embeddings from users’ highlights and notes. It enables real-time search and retrieval, making the AI Clone feel personal and instant. Compared to other options, Pinecone’s performance and ease of integration stood out.


Super simple to get started, documentation was amazing.
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•3 reviews
High-Performance Vector Database: Pinecone is optimized for handling vector embeddings, making it ideal for machine learning and AI applications that require fast and efficient similarity search.
Scalability: Pinecone is designed to scale effortlessly, allowing users to manage large datasets and high query loads without compromising performance.
Ease of Use: Pinecone offers a simple API and managed service, reducing the complexity of deploying and maintaining a vector database, which is particularly beneficial for developers and data scientists.
•3 reviews
The scalability and performance under heavy loads are impressive. It handles everything we throw at it with ease, making it a reliable solution for large-scale AI applications.
•2 reviews
I used Pinecone for my vector database, it was easy to get started and scale.