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BYOC stores cluster metadata in FoundationDB

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BYOC deployments run FoundationDB inside your Kubernetes cluster to store cluster metadata, with no managed database to operate.

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Egress metering and monthly egress allowances

Pinecone now meters egress, the data returned to you on reads. Each plan includes a monthly egress allowance: 1 GB on Starter, 10 GB on Builder, and 100 GB on Standard and Enterprise. Egress is metered on reads that return record data, such as query, fetch, list, and search. Writes, index statistics, and index management requests aren't metered.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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