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Pinecone pros and cons

Vendor: Pinecone
4.2 out of 5
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PROS

Pinecone offers valuable features such as similarity search and maximal marginal relevance search for retrieval requirements.
Its managed service aspect and flexibility to accommodate any data dimensions make Pinecone stand out in the vector database market.
The private local host feature enhances usability by displaying maintenance parameters and allowing data visibility.
Pinecone significantly enhances organizational efficiency and personalizes interactions by incorporating memory through a vector database.
The seamless integration with AWS ensures efficient deployment and usage within existing infrastructure.

CONS

Pinecone lacks a serverless storage capacity.
Onboarding could be smoother and more effective.
Pinecone does not confirm whether a file is deleted, leading to potential ambiguities.
Pinecone requires a login and API key, which some users prefer to avoid.
Pinecone does not allow searching based on metadata, limiting its functionality.
 

Pinecone Pros review quotes

reviewer2339244 - PeerSpot reviewer
Full-stack Engineer at a security firm with 201-500 employees
Feb 1, 2024
The most valuable features of the solution are similarity search and maximal marginal relevance search for retrieval purposes.
OmkarPatil - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Executive Officer at Nyx CodeCraft
Mar 13, 2024
We chose Pinecone because it covers most of the use cases.
Rushikesh Patki - PeerSpot reviewer
Machine Learning Engineer at a consumer goods company with 51-200 employees
May 13, 2024
The product's setup phase was easy.
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Aakash Kushwaha - PeerSpot reviewer
SDE at Alphablocks
May 20, 2024
The semantic search capability is very good.
Neeraj Maurya - PeerSpot reviewer
Artificial Intelligence Consultant at GlobalLogic
May 28, 2024
The most valuable feature of Pinecone is its managed service aspect. There are many vector databases available, but Pinecone stands out in the market. It is very flexible, allowing us to input any kind of data dimensions into the platform. This makes it easy to use for both technical and non-technical users.
MAYANK MADAN PARIHAR - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Science Trainee at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
May 29, 2024
The best thing about Pinecone is its private local host feature. It displays all the maintenance parameters and lets us view the data sent to the database. We can also see the status of the CD and which application it corresponds to.
Pradeep Gudipati - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technology Advisor at Kovaad technologies Pvt Ltd
Oct 10, 2025
Pinecone has positively impacted our organization by enhancing efficiency for the team, and the long-term effect has been that the chats have become much more personalized due to the memory added through a vector database.
SS
Senior Engineer at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Dec 2, 2025
Pinecone has positively impacted my organization by helping people in needle-in-a-haystack situations, as previously they had to grind through PDF documents, PowerPoint documents, and websites, but now with Pinecone, they can ask questions and receive references to documents along with the page numbers where that information exists, so they can use it as a reference or backtrack, especially for things such as FDA approvals where they can quote the exact page number from PDF documents, eliminating hallucination and providing real-time data that relies on an external vector database with enough guardrails to ensure it won't provide information not in the vector database, confining it to the information present in the indexes.
reviewer2774628 - PeerSpot reviewer
Research Assistant at a university with 10,001+ employees
Dec 12, 2025
Pinecone's integration with AWS was seamless.
 

Pinecone Cons review quotes

reviewer2339244 - PeerSpot reviewer
Full-stack Engineer at a security firm with 201-500 employees
Feb 1, 2024
The product fails to offer a serverless type of storage capacity.
OmkarPatil - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Executive Officer at Nyx CodeCraft
Mar 13, 2024
Onboarding could be better and smoother.
Rushikesh Patki - PeerSpot reviewer
Machine Learning Engineer at a consumer goods company with 51-200 employees
May 13, 2024
For testing purposes, the product should offer support locally as it is one area where the tool has shortcomings.
Learn what your peers think about Pinecone. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: January 2026.
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Aakash Kushwaha - PeerSpot reviewer
SDE at Alphablocks
May 20, 2024
The tool does not confirm whether a file is deleted or not.
Neeraj Maurya - PeerSpot reviewer
Artificial Intelligence Consultant at GlobalLogic
May 28, 2024
Pinecone can be made more budget-friendly.
MAYANK MADAN PARIHAR - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Science Trainee at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
May 29, 2024
I want to suggest that Pinecone requires a login and API key, but I would prefer not to have a login system and to use the environment directly.
Pradeep Gudipati - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technology Advisor at Kovaad technologies Pvt Ltd
Oct 10, 2025
One major issue I have noticed with Pinecone is that it does not allow me to search based on metadata.
SS
Senior Engineer at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Dec 2, 2025
Pinecone is good as it is, but had it been on AWS infrastructure, we wouldn't experience some network lags because it's outside AWS.
reviewer2774628 - PeerSpot reviewer
Research Assistant at a university with 10,001+ employees
Dec 12, 2025
If Pinecone gave us RAG as a service, we'd be more than happy to use that.