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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
BYOC deployments run FoundationDB inside your Kubernetes cluster to store cluster metadata, with no managed database to operate.
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.
Indexes that use dedicated read nodes now emit index fullness as time-series metrics. Monitor fullness over time via the Prometheus or Datadog integration.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Serverless vector database.
Other Pinecone products: Pinecone Assistant, Pinecone platform
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