Pinecone vs. Weaviate

Weaviate

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Pinecone	Score 8.9 out of 10	N/A	Pinecone is a fully managed vector database that makes it easy to add vector search to production applications. It combines state-of-the-art vector search libraries, advanced features such as filtering, and distributed infrastructure to provide high performance and reliability at any scale.	$0.07 per hour
Weaviate	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	Weaviate is an open-source vector database used to store data objects and vector embeddings from ML-models, and scale into billions of data objects, from the company of the same name in Amsterdam. Users can can index billions of data objects to search through, and combine multiple search techniques, such as keyword-based and vector search, to provide search experiences.	$0

Pricing

Pinecone

Weaviate

Editions & Modules

Enterprise: $0.01
per hour

Open Source — Free (self-hosted, BSD-3-Clause): $0
Free Tier: $0
Flex: $45
per month
Premium: $400
per month
Enterprise: Contact Sales
per month

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Pinecone	Weaviate
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Weaviate Cloud pricing is consumption-based. Add-on services are priced separately: Query Agent (free tier of 1,000 requests/month; $30/organization includes 4,000 requests, then usage-based) and Weaviate Embeddings (usage-based per token). Engram, Weaviate's agent-memory service, is a separate product with its own free and paid tiers.

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Pinecone	Weaviate
Considered Both Products	Pinecone Roland Alden co-founder Chose Pinecone We selected Pinecone because they had much more startup-friendly pricing. Incentivized Helpful?	Weaviate No answer on this topic

Features

Pinecone

Weaviate

Vector Database

Comparison of Vector Database features of Product A and Product B
	Pinecone 7.5 1 Ratings 5% below category average	Weaviate - Ratings
Vector Data Connection	10.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
Attribute Management	10.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
Data Import/Export	5.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
Data Sharing and Collaboration	5.01 Ratings	00 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Pinecone	Weaviate
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Pinecone	Weaviate
Likelihood to Recommend	Pinecone Similarity search and ranking are fundamental capabilities, and Pinecone just has this nailed. Almost every application, especially those that talk to LLMs, can use this feature, and there is no reason to reinvent it or use anything more complicated or "full stack" than Pinecone. Pinecone is a powerful tool in this space. Incentivized Roland Alden co-founder Read full review	Weaviate No answers on this topic
Pros	Pinecone Adding a vector (of course) and we are able to add arbitrary metadata with it. Similarity search, ranking and metadata retrieval. The webui/console tools are nice when debugging/confirming something. Above-average tooling in this regard. Incentivized Roland Alden co-founder Read full review	Weaviate No answers on this topic
Cons	Pinecone Pinecone has come a long way (we have been using it for years). While the tooling used to have some rough edges, I can't really complain these days. Migrating an entire database from one AWS zone to another basically required a full data dump and reload. That could be improved. I have not tried AWS=>GCP=>Azure replications/migrations, but suspect they are not yet well supported, and that would be helpful. Incentivized Roland Alden co-founder Read full review	Weaviate No answers on this topic
Usability	Pinecone It is lean and covers all the bases. I am sure there are one or two things that could be better, so 9 instead of 10. Incentivized Roland Alden co-founder Read full review	Weaviate No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Pinecone We selected Pinecone because they had much more startup-friendly pricing. Incentivized Roland Alden co-founder Read full review	Weaviate No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	Pinecone When our product had a primitive search, we were lambasted by users, and we embraced Pinecone to fill an urgent need for something better. Over the years, it has become a wired-in foundation for more than a few product features. The money we didn't spend creating and maintaining something "like" Pinecone has been one of our best investments. Incentivized Roland Alden co-founder Read full review	Weaviate No answers on this topic
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