Pinecone
With its vector database at the core, Pinecone is the leading knowledge platform for building accurate, secure, and scalable AI applications. The Pinecone APIs cover Database (vector storage and search), Inference (embeddings and reranking), Assistant (RAG over documents), and Admin (organization and project management).
Pinecone publishes 9 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including API Keys API, Bulk Operations API, Inference API, and 6 more. Tagged areas include Vector Search, Artificial Intelligence, Embeddings, RAG, and Database.
The Pinecone catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
Pinecone’s developer surface includes authentication, pricing, engineering blog, documentation, getting-started guide, code examples, changelog, and 23 more developer resources.
What this lets a business do 2
Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →
Kin Score
Markets this provider is in provisional
The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.
| Market | Position | Depth | Registered MCP server | Declares compatibility |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retrieval, Vector and RAG | mixed | 52.1 | - | 2 |
| Infrastructure-as-Code Provider Registries (Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi) | mixed | 52.1 | - | 2 |
| APIs.guru OpenAPI Directory (API definition directory) | mixed | 52.1 | - | 2 |
| Hugging Face Hub Organisations | mixed | 52.1 | - | 2 |
Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.
Standards implemented 3
Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.
APIs 9
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Pinecone API Keys API
Actions that manage API Keys.
Pinecone Bulk Operations API
The Bulk Operations API from Pinecone — 2 operation(s) for bulk operations.
Pinecone Inference API
Model inference
Pinecone Manage Assistants API
Actions that manage Assistants
Pinecone Manage Indexes API
Actions that manage indexes
Pinecone Namespace Operations API
The Namespace Operations API from Pinecone — 2 operation(s) for namespace operations.
Pinecone Organizations API
Actions that manage organizations.
Pinecone Projects API
Actions that manage projects.
Pinecone Vector Operations API
The Vector Operations API from Pinecone — 10 operation(s) for vector operations.
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Postman Collections 9
Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.
Pinecone Admin API Keys API
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Open Collections 9
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Pinecone Admin API Keys API
OPEN COLLECTIONPinecone Admin API Keys Bulk Operations API
OPEN COLLECTIONPinecone Admin API Keys Inference API
OPEN COLLECTIONPinecone Admin API Keys Manage Assistants API
OPEN COLLECTIONPinecone Admin API Keys Manage Indexes API
OPEN COLLECTIONPinecone Admin API Keys Namespace Operations API
OPEN COLLECTIONPinecone Admin API Keys Organizations API
OPEN COLLECTIONPinecone Admin API Keys Projects API
OPEN COLLECTIONPinecone Admin API Keys Vector Operations API
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MCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
Pinecone API pricing
Prices published by Pinecone, read 2026-10-07 from www.pinecone.io/pricing/. A free plan or tier is listed.
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Starter | Free Includes: Up to 2 GB storage, 2M write units/mo, 1M read units/mo, 1GB egress/mo, 5M embedding tokens/mo, 1 pr |
| Builder | $20/month flat Includes: Up to 10 GB storage, 5M write units/mo, 2M read units/mo, 10GB egress/mo, 10M embedding tokens/mo, 5 |
| Standard | $50/month min. usage Includes: 3 week trial includes $300 credits; minimum $50/month applied to usage |
| Enterprise | $500/month min. usage Includes: 99.95% Uptime SLA, BYOC, Pro support |
| Bring your own cloud | Contact Us for Pricing Includes: Pinecone in your cloud account, zero-access operations, Pro support |
| HIPAA add-on | $190/mo |
Plan details, limits and sources →
Rate limits
- Index throughput: scales with read units queries per second
- Concurrent operations: varies concurrent
- Bulk import: 10 concurrent imports
Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Pinecone's documentation. All 4 limits →
Billed by: subscription · FinOps profile →
Pricing Plans 2
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Pinecone Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSService Levels 1
Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.
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SLAFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Pinecone Finops
FINOPSFeatures 16
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
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Spectral Rules 1
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
Pinecone — jsonschema rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 136
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
APIKey
JSON SCHEMAAPIKeyWithSecret
JSON SCHEMAAssistant
JSON SCHEMAAssistantFileModel
JSON SCHEMABackupList
JSON SCHEMABackupModel
JSON SCHEMABYOC
JSON SCHEMABYOC
JSON SCHEMACancelImportResponse
JSON SCHEMAChatCompletionModel
JSON SCHEMAChatModel
JSON SCHEMAChatRequest
JSON SCHEMAChoiceChunkModel
JSON SCHEMAChoiceModel
JSON SCHEMACitationModel
JSON SCHEMACollectionList
JSON SCHEMACollectionModel
JSON SCHEMAConfigureIndexRequest
JSON SCHEMAContextModel
JSON SCHEMAContextOptionsModel
JSON SCHEMAContextRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateAPIKeyRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateBackupRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateCollectionRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateIndexForModelRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateIndexFromBackupRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateIndexFromBackupResponse
JSON SCHEMACreateIndexRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateNamespaceRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateProjectRequest
JSON SCHEMADeleteRequest
JSON SCHEMADeleteResponse
JSON SCHEMADeletionProtection
JSON SCHEMADense embedding
JSON SCHEMADescribeIndexStatsRequest
JSON SCHEMADocument
JSON SCHEMADocxReferenceModel
JSON SCHEMAEmbedding
JSON SCHEMAEmbeddingsList
JSON SCHEMAEmbedInputs
JSON SCHEMAEmbedRequest
JSON SCHEMAErrorResponse
JSON SCHEMAFetchByMetadataRequest
JSON SCHEMAFetchByMetadataResponse
JSON SCHEMAFetchResponse
JSON SCHEMAHighlightModel
JSON SCHEMAHit
JSON SCHEMAImageModel
JSON SCHEMAImportErrorMode
JSON SCHEMAImportModel
JSON SCHEMAIndexDescription
JSON SCHEMAIndexList
JSON SCHEMAIndexModel
JSON SCHEMAIndexSpec
JSON SCHEMAIndexTags
JSON SCHEMAJsonReferenceModel
JSON SCHEMAListApiKeysResponse
JSON SCHEMAListImportsResponse
JSON SCHEMAListItem
JSON SCHEMAListNamespacesResponse
JSON SCHEMAListResponse
JSON SCHEMAMarkdownReferenceModel
JSON SCHEMAMessageModel
JSON SCHEMAMetadataSchema
JSON SCHEMAModelIndexEmbed
JSON SCHEMAModelInfo
JSON SCHEMAModelInfoList
JSON SCHEMAModelInfoMetric
JSON SCHEMAModelInfoSupportedMetrics
JSON SCHEMAModelInfoSupportedParameter
JSON SCHEMAMultiModalContentBlocksModel
JSON SCHEMAMultiModalContentImageBlockModel
JSON SCHEMAMultiModalContentTextBlockModel
JSON SCHEMAMultiModalSnippetModel
JSON SCHEMANamespaceDescription
JSON SCHEMANamespaceSummary
JSON SCHEMAOrganization
JSON SCHEMAOrganizationList
JSON SCHEMAPagination
JSON SCHEMAPaginationResponse
JSON SCHEMAPdfReferenceModel
JSON SCHEMAPod-based
JSON SCHEMAProject
JSON SCHEMAProjectList
JSON SCHEMAprotobufAny
JSON SCHEMAQueryRequest
JSON SCHEMAQueryResponse
JSON SCHEMAQueryVector
JSON SCHEMARankedDocument
JSON SCHEMAReadCapacity
JSON SCHEMAReadCapacityDedicatedConfig
JSON SCHEMADedicated
JSON SCHEMADedicated
JSON SCHEMAOn-demand
JSON SCHEMAOn-demand
JSON SCHEMAReadCapacityResponse
JSON SCHEMAReadCapacityStatus
JSON SCHEMAReferenceModel
JSON SCHEMARerankRequest
JSON SCHEMARerankResult
JSON SCHEMARestoreJobList
JSON SCHEMARestoreJobModel
JSON SCHEMArpcStatus
JSON SCHEMAScalingConfigManual
JSON SCHEMAScoredVector
JSON SCHEMASearchCompletions
JSON SCHEMASearchMatchTerms
JSON SCHEMASearchRecordsRequest
JSON SCHEMASearchRecordsResponse
JSON SCHEMASearchRecordsVector
JSON SCHEMASearchUsage
JSON SCHEMAServerless
JSON SCHEMAServerlessSpecResponse
JSON SCHEMAThe query results for a single `QueryVector`
JSON SCHEMASnippetModel
JSON SCHEMASparse embedding
JSON SCHEMASparseValues
JSON SCHEMAStartImportRequest
JSON SCHEMAStartImportResponse
JSON SCHEMAStreamChatCompletionChunkModel
JSON SCHEMATextReferenceModel
JSON SCHEMATextSnippetModel
JSON SCHEMATypedReferenceModel
JSON SCHEMAUpdateAPIKeyRequest
JSON SCHEMAUpdateOrganizationRequest
JSON SCHEMAUpdateProjectRequest
JSON SCHEMAUpdateRequest
JSON SCHEMAUpdateResponse
JSON SCHEMAUpsertRecord
JSON SCHEMAUpsertRequest
JSON SCHEMAUpsertResponse
JSON SCHEMAUsage
JSON SCHEMAUsageModel
JSON SCHEMAVector
JSON SCHEMAVectorType
JSON SCHEMAVectorValues
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JSON Structure 1
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Pinecone Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 47
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Pinecone Delete File Example
EXAMPLEPinecone Embed Example
EXAMPLEPinecone Get Model Example
EXAMPLEPinecone List Files Example
EXAMPLEPinecone List Models Example
EXAMPLEPinecone Rerank Example
EXAMPLEPinecone Upload File Example
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Security Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Get Started 2
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 2
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 3
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 5
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 5
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 4
The organization behind the API
Other 4
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
Source (apis.yml)
Pinecone API — frequently asked questions
Does Pinecone have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 9 APIs from Pinecone, including Pinecone API Keys API, Pinecone Bulk Operations API and Pinecone Inference API, and 6 more.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Pinecone API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 9 OpenAPI specifications for Pinecone, each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the Pinecone API?
Pinecone uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey/http · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Pinecone Authentication.
How much does the Pinecone API cost?
Pinecone publishes its prices; its Builder plan is $20/month flat as of 2026-10-07. APIs.io lists 6 pricing plans for Pinecone, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.
Does Pinecone have an MCP server?
Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Pinecone: Remote MCP server at www.pinecone.io over HTTP.
Is the Pinecone API ready for AI agents?
Pinecone has a Kin Score of 61.2 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 46.9 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.
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