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For embeddings	PineconeBuilding block	FirecrawlBuilding block	Mistral AI
Free tier	Yes Starter plan: up to 2 GB storage, 2M write units and 1M read units per month, 5 indexes. Source, Sep 29, 2026	Yes 1,000 credits per month, no card required. Source, Sep 29, 2026

Starting price	$20/month Builder plan, flat monthly price. Source, Sep 29, 2026	$16/month Hobby plan, 5,000 credits/month, billed annually. Source, Sep 29, 2026	$0.50 per 1M input tokens Mistral Large 3; $1.50 per 1M output tokens. Source, Sep 29, 2026

Rate limit	100 queries/sec per namespace Starter plan; upserts also 100 requests/sec per namespace. Source, Sep 29, 2026	10 requests/min Free plan scrape/map/search; crawl is 2/min, 2 concurrent requests. Source, Sep 29, 2026	Not listed

Size limit	top_k max 10,000 Dense vectors up to 20,000 dimensions; 40 KB filterable metadata per record. Source, Sep 29, 2026	10,000 pages per crawl Default crawl limit; larger crawls bounded by available credits. Source, Sep 29, 2026	256K token context Mistral Large 3. Source, Sep 29, 2026

Trains on your data	No Security page says customer data is only used for servicing API calls. Source, Sep 29, 2026	Not listed	Opt-out Studio/API inputs and outputs may be used for training; customers can opt out anytime. Source, Sep 29, 2026

EU hosting	Yes eu-west-1 (Ireland) and europe-west4 (Netherlands) on Builder plan and above. Source, Sep 29, 2026	No Privacy policy states servers and data are located in the United States. Source, Sep 29, 2026	Yes Data hosted in the EU by default; US endpoint optional. Source, Sep 29, 2026