Detailed comparison across 10 dimensions
Winner: Pinecone
Pinecone clearly comes out ahead of pgvector on Staquest's weighted six-dimension score. Both offer a free tier. Pinecone's paid plans start at $50/mo.
| Overview | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | hybrid | ai tool |
| Company | Open Source Community | Pinecone |
| Free Tier | ||
| Has API | ||
| Open Source | ||
| Learning Curve | - | - |
| Integration | - | - |
| Trending | Stable | Active |
| GitHub Stars | - | - |
| Industries | DevelopmentData & Analytics | DevelopmentData & AnalyticsAI & Machine LearningSaaS & Cloud |
| Categories | database | databasecloud-infrastructure |
| Website | Visit | Visit |
Pinecone
open source
freemium
usage based
usage based
custom
| Feature | pgvector | pinecone |
|---|---|---|
| Hnsw And Ivfflat Indexing | ||
| 1 Index | ||
| L2 Distance, Inner Product, And Cosine Distance | ||
| 1 Project | ||
| Native Postgresql Integration | ||
| 1M Read Units Per Month | ||
| Vector Similarity Search | ||
| 2M Write Units Per Month | ||
| 99.95% Uptime Sla | ||
| Access To Most Embedding And Reranking Models | ||
| Audit Logs | ||
| Backups | ||
| Bring-Your-Own-Cloud (Byoc) Deployment | ||
| Community Support | ||
| Custom Compliance Requirements | ||
| Customer Managed Encryption Keys (Cmek) | ||
| Enterprise Support Included | ||
| Everything In Standard | ||
| Everything In Starter | ||
| Multiple Projects And Users | ||
| Premium Support | ||
| Private Link | ||
| Private Regions | ||
| Prometheus Metrics | ||
| Role-Based Access Control (Rbac) | ||
| Saml Sso | ||
| Standard Support | ||
| Unlimited Serverless Usage (Pay-As-You-Go) | ||
| Up To 2Gb Storage |
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On Staquest's weighted six-dimension scoring, Pinecone comes out ahead overall, though pgvector can be the better fit depending on your priorities — see the dimension-by-dimension breakdown above.
Both pgvector and Pinecone offer a free tier.
Pinecone scores higher on pricing value in Staquest's analysis. It is the highest-weighted dimension in this comparison.
pgvector is open source. The feature comparison and dimension scores above cover the full breakdown.
