Releasesby GlyphTwice the included embedding tokens through December 31
Pinecone is doubling the included monthly embedding tokens for Starter and Builder organizations through December 31, 2026.
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Pinecone releases
November 2026 digestReleased pg\_pinecone
The pg_pinecone extension is now available, enabling native vector search within PostgreSQL. It allows users to perform vector searches using the local engine or offload indexing to Pinecone for larger datasets.
Released Pinecone Terraform Provider v5.1.0
Released v5.1.0 of the Terraform Provider for Pinecone. This version adds integrated embedding for document indexes, so Pinecone can embed a string field's text with a hosted model. It also adds on-demand read capacity for BYOC indexes. Indexes created with the top-level embed attribute are now called legacy integrated indexes.
On-demand indexes in BYOC
Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) now supports on-demand indexes in addition to dedicated read nodes indexes. All on-demand indexes and their namespaces in a BYOC environment share one pool of nodes. When you create an index, you choose your BYOC environment and then on-demand or dedicated read nodes as the capacity mode.
Export usage and cost data with the Admin API
Enterprise organizations can now export usage and cost data through the Admin API as an alternative to downloading a CSV from the console. Create an export covering any period in the last 365 days, poll it until it finishes, then download the zip archive of FOCUS v1.4 CSV files. For the steps, see Download a usage report.
Cross-region transfer fee for restores
Restoring a backup into a different region now incurs a cross-region transfer fee on top of the standard restore price. The fee is charged per GB and depends on the cloud provider and the backup's region. Restoring into the same region as the backup is billed as before. The fee appears on your invoice as Serverless Cross-Region Transfer.
Released Pinecone Terraform Provider v5.0.0
Released v5.0.0 of the Terraform Provider for Pinecone. This version uses API version 2026-07 and adds the schema style for describing indexes, with the schema and deployment attributes. Use it to manage document indexes with dense vector, sparse vector, and full-text-search fields.
End of life: Pinecone Local
Pinecone Local, the in-memory Docker emulator for local development and testing, has reached end of life and is no longer available. Its documentation has been removed. To develop and test your applications, use a separate project in your Pinecone account.
Namespace aliases
A namespace alias is a stable, repointable name that points at a namespace. Your application reads through the alias, and you can swap the data it reads by atomically repointing the alias to a different namespace in the same index, with no redeploy. Manage aliases through the REST API on version 2026-07 or later.
Released Go SDK v7.0.0
Released v7.0.0 of the Pinecone Go SDK. This version uses the latest stable API version, 2026-07, and adds support for schema-based document indexes and the Documents API, which brings full-text search to the Go SDK. The v6 release line continues to target 2026-04.
Gemini 2.5 Pro and o4-mini deprecations for Assistant
Google has deprecated the Gemini 2.5 Pro model, and OpenAI has deprecated o4-mini. Pinecone Assistant automatically routes all chat requests that specify gemini-2.5-pro to Gemini 3.5 Flash, and all chat requests that specify o4-mini to GPT-5, at the same price. No code changes are required.
Pod-to-serverless migration supports up to 500 million records
Migrating a pod-based index to serverless now supports indexes with up to 500 million records, up from 50 million. If you need to migrate a larger index, contact Support before you start.
Higher namespace limit on the Enterprise plan
The Enterprise limit for namespaces per serverless index is now 1,000,000. Pinecone can accommodate more for specific use cases. Contact Support to request a higher limit.
General availability: Full-text search and the Documents API
Full-text search is now generally available on API version 2026-07, built on the new Documents API. Create schema-based document indexes that combine full-text (BM25), dense-vector, and sparse-vector ranking fields in a single index. Query them with BM25 token matching, Lucene query syntax, or vector similarity, narrowed by metadata and text-match filters.
Bulk import credit is no longer offered
New Standard and Enterprise subscriptions no longer receive the one-time \$250 bulk import credit (1 TB). Imports from object storage are billed at the standard \$0.25/GB rate. Credits already granted stay usable until they expire, 60 days after they were granted. The last balances expire by November 1, 2026. For details, see Understanding cost.
BYOC stores cluster metadata in FoundationDB
BYOC deployments run FoundationDB inside your Kubernetes cluster to store cluster metadata, with no managed database to operate.
End of life: Pinecone Marketplace
Pinecone Marketplace has reached end of life and is no longer available. Marketplace ran on Pinecone Assistant. To keep querying your data, see Pinecone Assistant, and contact Support if you need help.
General availability: Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC)
BYOC is now generally available and recommended for production usage on the Enterprise plan, across AWS, GCP, and Azure. BYOC runs the Pinecone data plane inside your own cloud account, so your vectors, metadata, and queries stay in your environment.
Index fullness metrics for dedicated read nodes
Indexes that use dedicated read nodes now emit index fullness as time-series metrics. Monitor fullness over time via the Prometheus or Datadog integration.
Pod-to-serverless migration supports up to 50 million records
Migrating a pod-based index to serverless now supports indexes with up to 50 million records, up from 25 million. If you need to migrate a larger index, contact Support before you start, as the limit can often be raised for your project.
General availability: Pinecone Nexus
Pinecone Nexus, the knowledge engine for agents, is now generally available. Point Nexus at your sources, curate them into a context, and query that context to get grounded, cited answers. Get started in the Nexus quickstart.
Released Pinecone Terraform Provider v4.0.0
Released v4.0.0 of the Terraform Provider for Pinecone. This version adds resources for managing service accounts, role bindings, organization invites, and removing organization members.
Fuzzy matching and substring search for full-text search
Full-text search now supports two new ways to match text: Fuzzy matching (typo tolerance) , In a query_string search, append ~ to a term to match indexed terms within a small edit distance: body:(compxter~1) matches computer. Use term~ for an automatic distance based on term length, or term~N for a fixed distance (N is 0–2).
Manage roles from your identity provider with SAML and SCIM
Organizations on the Enterprise plan with SSO can now manage Pinecone roles directly from their identity provider (IdP), instead of assigning them manually in Pinecone. Two modes are available: SAML role management sets each user's organization and project roles from a SAML attribute on every SSO login.
Expanded role-based access controls (RBAC)
Pinecone now offers an expanded set of roles for managing access to organizations and projects. New Organization member and Project member roles grant more restricted access than the owner and manager roles, and projects now support granular editor and viewer roles (project, control plane, and data plane) that you can assign to users, service accounts, and...
Public preview: Restore a backup to a different region
You can now restore a serverless backup into a different region on the same cloud provider. Use the unstable version of the create index endpoint, specifying the backup as source_backup_id within spec.serverless and the target region there.
Cohere Rerank 4.0 Fast is generally available, and cohere-rerank-3.5 is deprecated
cohere-rerank-4-fast (Cohere Rerank 4.0 Fast) is now generally available as a reranking model on Pinecone. It succeeds cohere-rerank-3.5, improves relevance quality, and supports multiple rerank fields. Cohere Rerank 4.0 is hosted on Azure AI under the Global Standard deployment type, and requests may be processed in regions outside the United States.
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