Our take
Pick Pinecone if rAG / search teams who will stay on Starter at $0 (2 GB, 1M read units) while they open a first Assistant, then buy Builder at $20 / month flat or Standard at $50 / month minimum when they need multi-cloud and pay-as-you-go. Pick Weaviate if teams who will stay on Cloud Free $0 (100k objects, 1 GB RAM, 10 GB disk) or self-host, then buy Flex at $45/month when they need HA, 1,000 collections, and
Best for
Pinecone Indexes plus an Assistant you start at $0
Weaviate Vectors you can self-host or rent from $45 Flex
Free plan
Pinecone No free plan
Weaviate $0 · forever. 1 cluster / user. 100,000 objects. 1 GB memory. 10 GB disk. 1 collection, up to 3 tenants. Embeddings 2,000 req/day. Query Agent 1,000 req/month. Best-effort SLA
Lowest paid
Pinecone Builder $20
Weaviate Premium Shared / Dedicated $0.003875/mo
Next step up
Pinecone Support add-ons $29
Weaviate Embeddings (list) $0.025
Coding agent
Pinecone
Weaviate Query Agent
Runs where
Pinecone Local or hosted
Weaviate Local; you host it
Watch out
Pinecone Starter is a usage cap, not unlimited vectors
Weaviate Free is 100k objects and one collection
Last checked
Pinecone 2026-10-23 · pinecone.io/pricing
Weaviate 2026-10-22 · weaviate.io/pricing
rAG / search teams who will stay on Starter at $0 (2 GB, 1M read units) while they open a first Assistant, then buy Builder at $20 / month flat or Standard at $50 / month minimum when they need multi-cloud and pay-as-you-go.
Read the Pinecone pageteams who will stay on Cloud Free $0 (100k objects, 1 GB RAM, 10 GB disk) or self-host, then buy Flex at $45/month when they need HA, 1,000 collections, and pay-as-you-go dimensions.
Read the Weaviate page
