Hard facts side by side: free tiers, prices, limits, SDKs and privacy. Every value links to the official page it came from and is re-checked every week.
| Fact |  PineconeBuilding block |
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| 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 |
| Starting price | $20/month Builder plan, flat monthly price. Source, Sep 29, 2026 |
| Rate limit | 100 queries/sec per namespace Starter plan; upserts also 100 requests/sec per namespace. Source, Sep 29, 2026 |
| Size limit | top_k max 10,000 Dense vectors up to 20,000 dimensions; 40 KB filterable metadata per record. |
| Storage | 2 GB free Starter plan storage cap. Source, Sep 29, 2026 |
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| Official SDKs | PythonJavaScript / TypeScriptJavaGoSource, Sep 29, 2026 |
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| Trains on your data | No Security page says customer data is only used for servicing API calls. Source, Sep 29, 2026 |
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| EU hosting | Yes eu-west-1 (Ireland) and europe-west4 (Netherlands) on Builder plan and above. Source, Sep 29, 2026 |
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| Compliance | SOC 2ISO 27001GDPRHIPAASource, Sep 29, 2026 |
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