How much does Pinecone cost for 1 million vectors?

Approximately $10–30/month on the Starter or Standard plan depending on query volume. Storage runs ~$3, plus $16 per million read units. For 1M vectors with moderate traffic expect $15–25/mo.

Pinecone has a free Starter tier: 1 index, up to 100K vectors, shared infrastructure. For production workloads over 100K vectors or requiring dedicated resources, paid plans start at ~$70/mo.

What is cheaper than Pinecone?

Supabase pgvector at $25/mo (500K vectors included). Qdrant Cloud free tier up to 1GB. Self-hosted Qdrant on a $6/mo VPS. Weaviate Cloud has a free sandbox tier. All significantly cheaper than Pinecone Standard at scale.

Pinecone Pricing Guide 2026

Pinecone Serverless: New, simplest, $0.33/GB stored + $16/M queries.

Pinecone Pods: Traditional, needs capacity planning, $0.12/GB + custom pricing.

Cost at 10M vectors (1536 dims)

Scale	Serverless	Pod (1xp1)
1M vectors	$50	$15
10M vectors	$500	$150 base + queries
100M vectors	$5,000+	$1,500+ (p3 needed)

Serverless wins: Easy, no ops, predictable.

Pods win: Huge scale, fixed capacity cost.

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