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Pinecone

Pinecone Systems, Inc.·Pinecone.io
Company Overview

As of July 21, 2026: Pinecone is a vector database for AI developers whose 99.96% uptime over 90 days and three compliance certifications make it one of the more credible managed options in a crowded field.

Pricing runs from a free Starter tier to $500/month for Enterprise, with a Bring Your Own Cloud option on contact-sales terms, so the cost curve is visible until it isn't. The platform lists 18 capabilities including reranking and 13 integrations, and holds SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, and ISO 27001 alongside GDPR coverage and 14 stated security controls.

High confidence · 134 dated facts
Corroborated across 10 dimensions of the record.
uptime 90d
99.96%
Jul 2026
open roles
4
Jul 2026
integrations
13
Jul 2026
technologies
24
observed
dated changes
703
Jul 2026
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PricingHigh confidence · 11 dated facts
Corroborated across multiple dated, sourced facts.
Self-serve, free tier
The free Starter tier removes the barrier to evaluation, but the jump from Standard at $50/month to Enterprise at $500/month is steep; a developer whose usage outgrows Standard faces a 10x price increase before BYOC pricing even enters the conversation.
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Features
Reranking platform
18 stated capabilities and 13 integrations cover the core retrieval workflow; reranking is called out explicitly, which matters for teams building RAG pipelines where result quality, not just speed, is the constraint.
High confidence · 31 dated facts
Corroborated across multiple dated, sourced facts.Full read →
Security
Compliance-ready
SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, and ISO 27001 certifications plus RBAC, SAML, and SSO controls mean enterprise procurement teams will find the paperwork they need; HIPAA coverage opens the door to healthcare use cases that many vector database competitors cannot serve.
High confidence · 19 dated facts
Corroborated across multiple dated, sourced facts.Full read →
Reliability
Dependable
99.96% actual uptime over 90 days with only 2 incidents is a published, observable number, not a stated SLA alone; buyers can cross-check the status page rather than take the company's word for it.
High confidence · 3 dated facts
Corroborated across multiple dated, sourced facts.Full read →
Hiring
4 open roles
Only 4 open roles across R&D on a remote-friendly basis suggests the core product team is largely staffed; buyers should not expect rapid feature expansion in the near term, but the small hiring footprint also reduces execution risk from a growth-hiring stumble.
High confidence · 4 dated facts
Corroborated across multiple dated, sourced facts.Full read →
Stack
Detected + stated stack
React and AWS appear in both observed site fingerprinting and job postings, confirming those as real infrastructure choices; Kubernetes, Google Cloud, and Azure stated in job postings indicate multi-cloud backend capability, though that cannot be independently verified from the outside.
High confidence · 33 dated facts
Corroborated across multiple dated, sourced facts.Full read →
Positioning
Vector Database
The homepage headline 'Give agents knowledge' targets the AI agent build-out directly, and naming MongoDB, Elasticsearch, and Milvus as comparators tells buyers exactly which migration conversations Pinecone expects to have.
High confidence · 7 dated facts
Corroborated across multiple dated, sourced facts.Full read →
Funding
$138M raised across 3 rounds
The Series B was $100M at a $750M valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz in April 2023; $138M raised total gives the company runway, but the valuation was set before the current AI infrastructure market repricing, so dilution terms on any future round are an open question.
High confidence · 17 dated facts
Corroborated across multiple dated, sourced facts.Full read →
Location
San Francisco, CA · +1 office
Headquarters and the one listed office are both in San Francisco; work model is not stated publicly, which leaves remote candidates and distributed-team buyers without a clear answer.
Medium confidence · 2 dated facts
Grounded in a smaller fact set; directionally reliable.Full read →
Legal
Pinecone Systems, Inc. · Delaware, US
The registered entity is Pinecone Systems, Inc., incorporated in Delaware with California governing law; the terms carry a mandatory-arbitration clause, which enterprise legal teams will want to negotiate out before signing a large contract.
High confidence · 5 dated facts
Corroborated across multiple dated, sourced facts.Full read →
Change History703 dated events on the record
Location details changed: Incorporation
Legal details changed: Incorporation
Job-posting surge: Open Roles · high significance
Feature removed: Real Time Indexing · high significance
Feature removed: Semantic Search · high significance
Feature removed: Serverless · high significance
Feature removed: Tiered Storage · high significance
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GET https://api.bixel.com/v1/companies/pinecone.io

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