Best Pinecone Alternatives with Free Tiers (2026)

6 free alternatives in AI / ML. Sorted by pricing stability.

Current Pinecone Situation

Risk Level: stable
Category: AI / ML
Pricing Page: pinecone.io/pricing
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All Free Alternatives (6)

1 of these carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold; their order rotates daily. 3 are demoted with the reason named, and 2 are listed last because they are not generally available or are not a free offer. How we rank.

Left out of this list: Hugging Face (shares no subtype with this product), Groq (shares no subtype with this product), Mistral AI (shares no subtype with this product), OpenRouter (shares no subtype with this product), Cloudflare Workers AI (shares no subtype with this product), Cerebras (shares no subtype with this product), OpenAI (shares no subtype with this product), Deepgram (shares no subtype with this product), Kaggle (shares no subtype with this product), Roboflow (shares no subtype with this product), Scale AI (shares no subtype with this product), AssemblyAI (shares no subtype with this product), Replicate (shares no subtype with this product), Baseten (shares no subtype with this product), Weights & Biases (shares no subtype with this product), Comet ML (shares no subtype with this product), Clarifai (we have not classified this record), Neptune.ai (we have not classified this record), Labelbox (shares no subtype with this product), Arize AI (shares no subtype with this product), Composio (shares no subtype with this product), DeepAR (none of this category's subtypes apply), Maxim AI (shares no subtype with this product), OCR.Space (shares no subtype with this product), Parseur (shares no subtype with this product), Reducto (shares no subtype with this product), Tavily AI (shares no subtype with this product), paperspace (shares no subtype with this product), Arize AX (shares no subtype with this product), Audio Enhancer (none of this category's subtypes apply), Braintrust (shares no subtype with this product), Clair (none of this category's subtypes apply), Keywords AI (shares no subtype with this product), Langfuse (shares no subtype with this product), LangSmith (shares no subtype with this product), Langtrace (we have not classified this record), LangWatch (shares no subtype with this product), Lumenfall.ai (shares no subtype with this product), Mediaworkbench.ai (none of this category's subtypes apply), Othor AI (none of this category's subtypes apply), Pollinations.AI (shares no subtype with this product), Portkey (shares no subtype with this product), ReportGPT (none of this category's subtypes apply), Zenable (none of this category's subtypes apply), Vast.ai (shares no subtype with this product), xAI (shares no subtype with this product), Anthropic API (shares no subtype with this product), GitHub Models (we have not classified this record), NVIDIA NIM (shares no subtype with this product), Ollama Cloud (shares no subtype with this product), LLM7.io (shares no subtype with this product), SiliconFlow (shares no subtype with this product), Zhipu AI (shares no subtype with this product), DeepSeek API (shares no subtype with this product), MiniMax (shares no subtype with this product), Exa (shares no subtype with this product), GPU-Bridge (we have not classified this record), Google Vertex AI Agent Engine (we have not classified this record), Google GLM 5 (shares no subtype with this product), Alibaba Cloud Qwen Code (none of this category's subtypes apply), E2B (shares no subtype with this product), Fireworks AI (shares no subtype with this product), Modal (shares no subtype with this product). Each is still listed in its category, with the vendor's own words we read that from on its page. How we decide this.

Qdrant stable
Free Forever
AI / ML Verified 2026-07-30
Cohere stable
Trial Key
AI / ML Verified 2026-08-16
−2 time_limited_offer Tier "Trial Key" is a trial that expires, not an ongoing free tier.
Together AI stable
Free ($1 credits)
AI / ML Verified 2026-08-24
−2 time_limited_offer Tier "Free ($1 credits)" is a credit grant that runs out, not an ongoing free tier.
Google Gemini API caution discovered 2026-09-03 restructured
Free (Reduced)
AI / ML Verified 2026-08-18
−3 free_tier_withdrawn Recorded product deprecation on 2026-06-01: Gemini 2.0 Flash and 2.0 Flash-Lite will be deprecated June 1, 2026. Developers must migrate to Gemini 2.5 Flash or 3.x Flash models. Google is consolidating the model lineup — 2.0 generation reaching end of life as 2.5 and 3.x become production-ready.
Pay-as-you-go
AI / ML Verified 2026-08-17
not_a_free_offer Tier "Pay-as-you-go" is usage-billed from the first request.
Pay-as-you-go
AI / ML Verified 2026-08-15
not_a_free_offer Tier "Pay-as-you-go" is usage-billed from the first request.
Recompute today's order yourself. The order above is a permutation seeded only on the UTC date and the query key — no vendor name, slug, id or offer field is an input. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.
date
2026-09-06
query_key
alternative-to:Pinecone
seed
2f9c9460a76a9d9c9028a8969438d896a75156606301dd336b1896ecfca10621
tie_count
1

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Frequently Asked Questions

What are the best free alternatives to Pinecone?
The best free alternatives to Pinecone include Qdrant (Free Forever), Cohere (Trial Key), Together AI (Free ($1 credits)), Google Gemini Embedding 2 (Pay-as-you-go).
Is Pinecone's free tier still available?
Yes, Pinecone currently offers a free tier (Starter). No pricing changes have been recorded.
How many free alternatives to Pinecone exist?
There are 6 free alternatives to Pinecone tracked on AgentDeals across the AI / ML category.
Has Pinecone changed their pricing?
No, Pinecone has no recorded pricing changes on AgentDeals. This indicates stable pricing.

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