Pinecone Cost Calculator
Enter vectors, dimensions, metadata bytes, writes and queries per month, read units per query (editable) and egress, then pick Starter, Builder, Standard or Enterprise and a low/high region rate. The calculator returns storage GB, write and read units, monthly cost against the plan minimum and cost per 1,000 queries. Estimates only; pinecone.io/pricing prevails.
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Breakdown
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Formula: storage GB = vectors × (dimensions × 4 bytes + metadata bytes) ÷ 1e9. Standard / Enterprise: storage × $0.33/GB-mo + write units × $4–$4.50/M ($6–$6.75 Enterprise) + read units × $16–$18/M ($24–$27 Enterprise) + egress over 100 GB × $0.10/GB; you pay the larger of usage and the $50 ($500) monthly minimum. Read units per query depend on namespace size, top_k and metadata — the default of 1 is an editable assumption, check Pinecone's docs. Starter (free: 2 GB, 2M WU, 1M RU, 1 GB egress) and Builder ($20 flat: 10 GB, 5M WU, 2M RU, 10 GB egress) are flat; beyond the included limits you upgrade. Import $0.25/GB, backups $0.10/GB-mo, restore $0.15/GB and rerank $2/1k requests are not included.
A full RAG bill = embed + store + query + LLM: price embeddings and generation with the linked calculators.
Estimates only. Official list prices as of 2026-11-01 (Asia/Shanghai); the provider's pricing page prevails. Sources: Pinecone pricing · Pinecone read/write unit docs
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How it works
- How much does Pinecone cost?
- Starter is free (2 GB storage, 2M write units, 1M read units per month, AWS us-east-1). Builder is $20/month flat (10 GB, 5M WU, 2M RU, 10 GB egress). Standard has a $50/month minimum with storage $0.33/GB-month, write units $4–$4.50 per million and read units $16–$18 per million; Enterprise has a $500 minimum and $6–$6.75 / $24–$27 per million units.
- What does "minimum applies" mean?
- On Standard and Enterprise you pay the larger of your usage and the monthly minimum ($50 or $500). If storage + writes + reads + egress add up to $22, the bill is still $50.
- How many read units does a query use?
- It depends on namespace size, top_k and whether metadata or vectors are returned, so the calculator treats read units per query as an editable assumption (default 1). Check Pinecone's read-unit documentation or your usage dashboard and enter your real figure.
- How is storage estimated?
- Storage GB = vectors × (dimensions × 4 bytes + metadata bytes) ÷ 1e9. One million 1536-dimension float32 vectors with no metadata ≈ 6.14 GB, about $2.03/month on Standard.
- What isn't included?
- Egress beyond 100 GB ($0.10/GB), import ($0.25/GB), backups ($0.10/GB-month), restore ($0.15/GB), rerank ($2 per 1k requests) and Assistant are extra; hosted embeddings (llama-text-embed-v2 $0.16/M tokens, multilingual-e5-large $0.08/M) are an optional input.