Pinecone alternatives

Tools that do what Pinecone does, found by what they say they do rather than by shelf. Among the equally alike, the most used come first. Each line says how it differs from Pinecone.

Read 2026-10-16 · Pinecone itself: Free plan · From $20/mo

With a free plan or free to use: Weaviate, Qdrant, Zilliz, ApertureDB Multimodal AI Workflows, Meilisearch, Voyage AI, SurrealDB, Endee.io.

10 alternativesUnlike Pinecone

#1
Weaviate Retrieval (RAG)
Vector database that stores, indexes, and searches high-dimensional vectors for retrieval-augmented generation and semantic search.
Costs more
5.3k
Active
From $45/mo
#2
Qdrant Retrieval (RAG)
Stores and searches vectors at scale with metadata filtering, hybrid search, and reranking.
Can run on your servers
7.9k
Active
Free plan
2021
#3
Zilliz Retrieval (RAG)
Manages vector data for AI applications with real-time search, discovery, and analytics on a single platform.
Costs more
12.3k
Active
From $126/mo
2017
#4
ApertureDB Multimodal AI Workflows Creative & media
Stores and searches text, images, videos, and documents with vector embeddings and knowledge graphs for AI agents and retrieval pipelines.
Same job
1.1k
Active
From $0.33 per use
#5
Meilisearch Retrieval (RAG)
Hosts searchable indexes with full-text, semantic, and hybrid search across text, images, and video.
Can run on your servers
17.3k
Active
From $20/mo
#6
Voyage AI Retrieval (RAG)
Generates embeddings and reranks search results to improve retrieval quality for unstructured data.
Same job
13.7k
Active
Free plan
#7
SurrealDB Retrieval (RAG)
Stores documents, graphs, vectors, and relational data in one engine with built-in agent memory layer.
Can run on your serversAround longer, since 2015
3.5k
Active
From $0.02 per use
2015
#8
turbopuffer Retrieval (RAG)
Vector and full-text search database built on object storage, scaling to 256TB per index with sub-10ms latency.
Cheaper
1.5k
Active
From $16/mo
#9
Cohere Retrieval (RAG)
Provides generative language models and retrieval optimization for enterprise AI applications.
Same job
26.1k
Active
Contact sales
2019
#10
Endee.io Retrieval (RAG)
Vector search and retrieval platform combining semantic, full-text, and multi-vector search for AI applications at scale.
Costs moreAlso: Search
39
Active
From $99/mo
2023

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