Pinecone bills across 17 metered dimensions. The table below lists the current per-unit rates, verified June 14, 2026. What you actually pay depends on your usage volume, which is the number a scan computes for your specific app.
| Metered dimension | Price |
|---|---|
| Storage (GB-month) | $0.33 / GB-month |
| Read Units (per 1M) | $0.016 / 1k RU |
| Write Units (per 1M) | $0.004 / 1k WU |
| Import from object storage | $1 / GB |
| Backup storage | $0.1 / GB-month |
| Restore from backup | $0.15 / GB |
| Assistant Storage (GB-month) | $3 / GB-month |
| Assistant Input Tokens | $0.5 / 1k token |
| Assistant Output Tokens | $0.015 / 1k token |
| Assistant Context Processed Tokens | $0.005 / 1k token |
| Assistant Evaluation Processed Tokens | $0.008 / 1k token |
| Assistant Evaluation Output Tokens | $0.015 / 1k token |
| Assistant Ingestion Units | $0.5 / 1k ingestion unit |
| Inference - llama-text-embed-v2 | $0.0002 / 1k token |
| Inference - multilingual-e5-large | $0.0001 / 1k token |
| Inference - pinecone-sparse-english-v0 | $0.0001 / 1k token |
| Inference - Reranking (per 1k requests) | $2 / 1k request |
Serverless: pay per read/write/storage unit + monthly minimum on Standard and Enterprise. Builder is a $20/month flat plan. Standard has a $50/month minimum usage. Enterprise has a $500/month minimum usage. Pricing includes Database On-Demand, Inference (embedding/reranking), and Assistant components.
Source: pinecone.io · Catalog 2026-06-14.2. Confirm the live rate before you commit.
The rates above are per unit. Your bill is those rates times how hard your code leans on Pinecone, plus everything around it. PrePrice scans your project, finds where you call Pinecone, and computes your real cost per user and what to charge.
Find your real cost — freePinecone is billed per metered unit of usage. See the table above for each dimension and its rate, and the official pricing page for plan minimums and included allowances.
The per-unit rate is only one of the four numbers that set your bill. The others are how much your app uses Pinecone, how often, and across how many users. Long prompts, retries, multi-step agents, and uncached repeated context all multiply the rate. PrePrice models that usage from your code so the number is real, not a guess.
From Pinecone's official pricing page (pinecone.io), verified June 14, 2026 and re-checked on a schedule. Pricing changes often, so confirm the live rate before you commit.
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