# Pinecone

Pinecone is a fully managed vector database for AI applications. Writes are searchable within seconds, indexing is automatic, and the service offers dense, sparse and full-text indexes. Its Nexus product compiles enterprise data into governed knowledge that agents query in a single call, and its BYOC option runs Pinecone inside the customer's own cloud account.

Page: https://slateindex.ai/brand/pinecone · data of 2026-11-02

## Facts

- Founded: 2019
- Headquarters: New York, NY
- Employees: 51–200
- Company type: Private, venture-backed
- Latest funding: Series B
- Deployment: Fully managed cloud service, with an optional bring-your-own-cloud (BYOC) deployment
- Best for: Production AI applications, from solo developers and small teams to mission-critical enterprise deployments
- Compliance: SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO 27001

## Products

- Pinecone Database: Serverless, object storage-based vector database
- Pinecone Nexus: Compiles enterprise data into governed knowledge that agents query in one call
- Pinecone Dedicated Read Nodes: Dedicated, provisioned vector database read nodes
- Pinecone Assistant: Builds production-grade agent-based apps
- Pinecone BYOC: Deploys a zero-access Pinecone environment in the customer's cloud
- Pinecone Marketplace: Production-ready assistants, ready to deploy
- pg_pinecone: Open source Postgres extension for Pinecone

## Rankings

| Category | Rank | Visibility | Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vector Databases | 1 of 30 | 71.8 | 66 |

## By engine

| Engine | Visibility | Mention rate |
|---|---|---|
| chatgpt | 77.0 | 92.6% |
| google_ai_mode | 77.4 | 81.5% |
| perplexity | 61.1 | 70.4% |

## Definitions

- Visibility (0–100): how often and how high AI answers name the brand, weighted by position.
- Mention rate: share of collected AI answers that name the brand.
- Share of voice: the brand's mentions as a share of all brand mentions in the category.
- Citation authority: share of answers naming the brand that cite the brand's own site.

Cite as: SlateIndex, “Pinecone AI visibility profile”, https://slateindex.ai/brand/pinecone, data of 2026-11-02. Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).