LanceDB vs Pinecone

Side-by-side comparison of LanceDB and Pinecone: pricing, features, API access, and community ratings.

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	LanceDB Multimodal Lakehouse for AI Visit	Pinecone The fully managed vector database built for knowledgeable AI — fast retrieval, accurate results, lower costs. Visit
Category	Vector databases	Vector databases
Pricing	Freemium	Freemium
Starting price		USD 20/mo
Free tier
Audience	All audiences	All audiences
API available
Open source
Self-hostable
Model provider
Founded		2019
Headquarters		San Francisco, USA
Key strengths	·Multimodal data curation and deduplication ·Unified vector, full-text, and hybrid search with SQL filters ·Feature engineering with Python UDFs and automatic updates ·Training directly from curated data with up to 70% MFU	·Fully managed vector database with automatic indexing ·Fast and scalable vector search (consistent p99 latency at any scale) ·Pinecone Nexus knowledge engine (85–97% fewer tokens per query than agentic RAG) ·Enterprise-grade security (SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO 27001)