Compare 7 free alternatives to Pinecone for AI / ML. Every one of their free tier limits side by side, with the read and catalogue dates we hold.

Best Pinecone Alternatives with Free Tiers (2026)

7 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 (7)

4 of these carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold; their order rotates daily. 1 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), Brave Search API (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), Google Colab (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), SerpApi (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), xAI (shares no subtype with this product), Anthropic API (shares no subtype with this product), GitHub Models (shares no subtype with this product), 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), 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), ElevenLabs (we have not classified this record), Stability AI (we have not classified this record), Daytona (shares no subtype with this product), Blaxel (shares no subtype with this product), Novita Sandbox (shares no subtype with this product), Runloop (shares no subtype with this product), Mem0 (shares no subtype with this product), Zep (shares no subtype with this product), Letta (we have not classified this record), Supermemory (shares no subtype with this product), Cognee (shares no subtype with this product), Serper (shares no subtype with this product), Linkup (shares no subtype with this product), Parallel (shares no subtype with this product), You.com (shares no subtype with this product), Hetzner Inference API (shares no subtype with this product), Cloudflare AI Search (we have not classified this record), Valyu (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.

Free
Free of charge text, image, audio, and video input on the Gemini API free tier, with Google using the content to improve its products. Batch is not available on the free tier.
AI / ML Read and confirmed 2026-11-11
Free (Reduced)
Free tier: Gemini 4 Hydrogen, Gemini 3.8 Flash, 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, 3.1 Flash-Lite, Gemini 3 Flash Preview, Gemini Embedding 2 and Gemma 4 are free of charge. Also free of charge are Gemini 3.8 Live (real-time voice), Gemini 3.5 Live Translate (translation), Gemini 3.5 Transcribe…
AI / ML Read and confirmed 2026-11-09
Qdrant stable
Free
Vector database. The Qdrant Cloud Free Tier is a single-node cluster with 0.5 vCPU, 1 GB RAM and 4 GB disk, for testing and prototypes, with no credit card required; Qdrant says it serves about 1M vectors of 768 dimensions.
AI / ML Read and confirmed 2026-10-28
Cohere stable
Free
AI model API for Command chat models, Embed, Rerank, Transcribe and Parse. Every account starts with a Trial API key: calls made with it are free and limited to 1,000 API calls a month.
AI / ML Read 2026-10-26 · catalogue date 2026-08-16
Jina AI stable
Free Credits
Search, Reader, embeddings and reranker APIs. Each new API key comes with 10M free tokens, shared across these APIs; no page says they renew.
AI / ML Read 2026-11-13 · confirmed 2026-10-21
−2 time_limited_offer Tier "Free Credits" is a credit grant that runs out, not an ongoing free tier.
Pay-as-you-go
Inference API for open-source models, billed per token. Together AI does not currently offer free trials; access requires a minimum $15 credit purchase for an organization's first purchase ($5 for later purchases), and the platform is fully prepaid.
AI / ML Read and confirmed 2026-10-26
not_a_free_offer Tier "Pay-as-you-go" is usage-billed from the first request.
Pay-as-you-go
Google Vector Search 2.0 is now Agent Retrieval. It is part of the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, formerly Vertex AI Platform.
AI / ML Read 2026-11-09 · catalogue date 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
2026-11-14
query_key
alternative-to:Pinecone
seed
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tie_count
4

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Frequently Asked Questions

What are the best free alternatives to Pinecone?
We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 7 free alternatives to Pinecone, each listed below with its tier, category and the read and catalogue dates we hold. Of those, 4 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily, 1 is demoted with the reason named, 2 are listed last behind a stated gate. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
Is Pinecone's free tier still available?
Yes, Pinecone currently offers a free tier (Free). All 2 records we hold were our own errors and have been withdrawn.
How many free alternatives to Pinecone exist?
There are 7 free alternatives to Pinecone tracked on AgentDeals across the AI / ML category.
Has Pinecone changed their pricing?
All 2 records we hold were our own errors and have been withdrawn.