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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).

agent ready

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Pinecone the way a machine reads it — 237 machine-readable artifacts across 6 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Pinecone scores 56.5/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 34/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Composite quality — 56.5/100 · strong
Contract Quality 17.1 / 25
Access Clarity 12.4 / 20
Discoverability 7.2 / 10
Pinecone Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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How we profile Pinecone

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Pinecone. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 9

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

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

A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

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Open Collections 10

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

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GraphQL 1

Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Pinecone GraphQL API

Pinecone is a managed vector database for AI applications. The API covers index management, upsert and query of vector embeddings, metadata filtering, sparse-dense hybrid search...

GRAPHQL

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Pinecone Rate Limits

4 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Features 16

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Starter free: 2 GB, 2M writes, 1M reads
Builder at $20/mo flat: 10 GB, 5M writes, 2M reads
Standard $50/mo min: $0.33/GB, $4-$4.50/M writes, $16-$18/M reads
Enterprise $500/mo min: $6-$6.75/M writes, $24-$27/M reads, 99.95% SLA
Serverless indexes (auto-scaling)
Pod-based (legacy) for reserved capacity
REST and gRPC APIs
OpenAPI spec available
Hybrid search (dense + sparse vectors)
Namespaces for multi-tenancy
Bulk import from S3/GCS/Azure
Up to 1,000 vectors per upsert request
Dedicated Read Nodes for QPS isolation
Backup/restore on Standard+
SAML SSO and audit logs (Enterprise)
Inference API for embeddings + reranking

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Spectral Rules 1

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Pinecone API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 136

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

APIKey

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

APIKeyWithSecret

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Assistant

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AssistantFileModel

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BackupList

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BackupModel

16 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BYOC

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BYOC

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CancelImportResponse

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ChatCompletionModel

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ChatModel

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ChatRequest

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ChoiceChunkModel

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ChoiceModel

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CitationModel

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CollectionList

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CollectionModel

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ConfigureIndexRequest

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ContextModel

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ContextOptionsModel

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ContextRequest

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateAPIKeyRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateBackupRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateCollectionRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateIndexForModelRequest

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateIndexFromBackupRequest

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateIndexFromBackupResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateIndexRequest

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateNamespaceRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateProjectRequest

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeleteRequest

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeleteResponse

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeletionProtection

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Dense embedding

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DescribeIndexStatsRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Document

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DocxReferenceModel

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Embedding

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EmbeddingsList

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EmbedInputs

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EmbedRequest

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ErrorResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FetchByMetadataRequest

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FetchByMetadataResponse

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FetchResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

HighlightModel

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Hit

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ImageModel

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ImportErrorMode

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ImportModel

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

IndexDescription

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

IndexList

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

IndexModel

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

IndexSpec

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

IndexTags

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JsonReferenceModel

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListApiKeysResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListImportsResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListItem

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListNamespacesResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListResponse

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MarkdownReferenceModel

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MessageModel

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MetadataSchema

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ModelIndexEmbed

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ModelInfo

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ModelInfoList

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ModelInfoMetric

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ModelInfoSupportedMetrics

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ModelInfoSupportedParameter

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MultiModalContentBlocksModel

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MultiModalContentImageBlockModel

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MultiModalContentTextBlockModel

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MultiModalSnippetModel

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NamespaceDescription

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NamespaceSummary

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Organization

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OrganizationList

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Pagination

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PaginationResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PdfReferenceModel

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Pod-based

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Project

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ProjectList

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

protobufAny

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

QueryRequest

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

QueryResponse

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

QueryVector

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RankedDocument

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ReadCapacity

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ReadCapacityDedicatedConfig

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Dedicated

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Dedicated

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

On-demand

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

On-demand

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ReadCapacityResponse

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ReadCapacityStatus

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ReferenceModel

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RerankRequest

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RerankResult

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RestoreJobList

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RestoreJobModel

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

rpcStatus

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ScalingConfigManual

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ScoredVector

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SearchCompletions

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SearchMatchTerms

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SearchRecordsRequest

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SearchRecordsResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SearchRecordsVector

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SearchUsage

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Serverless

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ServerlessSpecResponse

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SnippetModel

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Sparse embedding

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SparseValues

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

StartImportRequest

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

StartImportResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

StreamChatCompletionChunkModel

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TextReferenceModel

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TextSnippetModel

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TypedReferenceModel

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UpdateAPIKeyRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UpdateOrganizationRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UpdateProjectRequest

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UpdateRequest

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UpdateResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UpsertRecord

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UpsertRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UpsertResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Usage

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UsageModel

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Vector

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VectorType

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VectorValues

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Pinecone Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 47

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Pinecone Embed Example

6 fields

EXAMPLE

Pinecone Rerank Example

6 fields

EXAMPLE

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Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Pinecone Authentication

apiKey/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Pinecone Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Pinecone Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Pinecone Agentic Access

66 operations · 39 acting

66 operations · 39 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Pinecone — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

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

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of Pinecone, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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