--- title: "Guides" description: "Every guide in Pinecone Docs." --- # Guides Every guide in Pinecone Docs. - [APIs](./guides/apis-index.md) - [Account management](./guides/account-management-index.md) - [Admin](./guides/admin-2-index.md) - [Admin](./guides/admin-index.md) - [Architecture](./guides/architecture-index.md) - [Assistants](./guides/assistants-index.md) - [Bring Your Own Cloud](./guides/bring-your-own-cloud-index.md) - [Build an assistant](./guides/build-an-assistant-index.md) - [Build an integration](./guides/build-an-integration-index.md) - [CLI](./guides/cli-index.md) - [Changelog](./guides/changelog-index.md) - [Chat](./guides/chat-index.md) - [Chat with an assistant](./guides/chat-with-an-assistant-index.md) - [Common errors](./guides/common-errors-index.md) - [Connect an integration](./guides/connect-an-integration-index.md) - [Contact support](./guides/contact-support-index.md) - [Context snippets](./guides/context-snippets-index.md) - [Control plane](./guides/control-plane-index.md) - [Core concepts](./guides/core-concepts-index.md) - [Data](./guides/data-index.md) - [Data plane](./guides/data-plane-index.md) - [Database](./guides/database-index.md) - [Evaluate answers](./guides/evaluate-answers-index.md) - [Evaluation](./guides/evaluation-index.md) - [Examples](./guides/examples-index.md) - [Files](./guides/files-index.md) - [Get started](./guides/get-started-index.md) - [Index data](./guides/index-data-index.md) - [Indexes](./guides/indexes-index.md) - [Inference](./guides/inference-index.md) - [Integrate with AI agents](./guides/integrate-with-ai-agents-index.md) - [Manage cost](./guides/manage-cost-index.md) - [Manage data](./guides/manage-data-index.md) - [Miscellaneous](./guides/miscellaneous-index.md) - [More](./guides/more-index.md) - [Move to production](./guides/move-to-production-index.md) - [Operations](./guides/operations-2-index.md) - [Operations](./guides/operations-index.md) - [Optimize](./guides/optimize-index.md) - [Reference](./guides/reference-index.md) - [Retrieve context snippets](./guides/retrieve-context-snippets-index.md) - [SDKs](./guides/sdks-index.md) - [The knowledge engine](./guides/the-knowledge-engine-index.md) - [Tools](./guides/tools-2-index.md) - [Tools](./guides/tools-index.md) - [Upload your data](./guides/upload-your-data-index.md) - [Using pods](./guides/using-pods-index.md) - [AGENTS JAVASCRIPT](./guides/more-agents-javascript.md) - [API keys](./guides/admin-2-api-keys.md) - [List API keys](./guides/admin-2-2026-07-admin-api-keys-list-api-keys.md) - [Create an API key](./guides/admin-2-2026-07-admin-api-keys-create-an-api-key.md) - [Get API key details](./guides/admin-2-2026-07-admin-api-keys-get-api-key-details.md) - [Delete an API key](./guides/admin-2-2026-07-admin-api-keys-delete-an-api-key.md) - [Update an API key](./guides/admin-2-2026-07-admin-api-keys-update-an-api-key.md) - [Create an API key](./guides/admin-2-2026-04-admin-create-api-key.md) - [Create an API key](./guides/admin-2-2026-04-admin-assistant-create-api-key.md) - [List API keys](./guides/admin-2-2026-04-admin-assistant-list-api-keys.md) - [Get API key details](./guides/admin-2-2026-04-admin-assistant-fetch-api-key.md) - [Update an API key](./guides/admin-2-2026-04-admin-assistant-update-api-key.md) - [Delete an API key](./guides/admin-2-2026-04-admin-assistant-delete-api-key.md) - [Create an API key](./guides/admin-2-2025-10-admin-assistant-create-api-key.md) - [List API keys](./guides/admin-2-2025-10-admin-assistant-list-api-keys.md) - [Get API key details](./guides/admin-2-2025-10-admin-assistant-fetch-api-key.md) - [Update an API key](./guides/admin-2-2025-10-admin-assistant-update-api-key.md) - [Delete an API key](./guides/admin-2-2025-10-admin-assistant-delete-api-key.md) - [Get API key details](./guides/admin-2-2025-04-admin-fetch-api-key.md) - [Create an API key](./guides/admin-2-2025-04-admin-assistant-create-api-key.md) - [List API keys](./guides/admin-2-2025-04-admin-assistant-list-api-keys.md) - [Get API key details](./guides/admin-2-2025-04-admin-assistant-fetch-api-key.md) - [Update an API key](./guides/admin-2-2025-04-admin-assistant-update-api-key.md) - [Delete an API key](./guides/admin-2-2025-04-admin-assistant-delete-api-key.md) - [Assistant API reference](./guides/apis-assistant-introduction.md) — Assistant API reference overview covering document upload, chat, and RAG endpoints supported by the Pinecone Python and Node.js SDKs. - [Auth](./guides/data-plane-auth.md) - [Exchange a Pinecone API key for a session token](./guides/data-plane-auth-exchange-a-pinecone-api-key-for-a-session-token.md) — Exchange a Pinecone API key for the session token every other endpoint expects. Send the token as a bearer credential. - [Current identity (whoami)](./guides/data-plane-auth-current-identity-whoami.md) — Who the current credential authenticates, and which project and workspace it is scoped to. - [CLI quickstart](./guides/cli-quickstart.md) — Pinecone CLI quickstart for installing pc, authenticating, and managing indexes, vectors, and data imports directly from your terminal. - [Chat through the standard interface](./guides/chat-with-an-assistant-chat-with-assistant.md) — Chat with Pinecone Assistant through the standard interface with default, streaming, or JSON responses, plus citations and chat history support. - [Chat with an assistant](./guides/chat-2026-04-assistant-chat-assistant.md) - [Contact Support](./guides/contact-support-contact-support.md) — Contact Pinecone Support from the console Help center, check which billing and support plans include it, and find business hours and Sev-1 coverage. - [Context snippets overview](./guides/retrieve-context-snippets-context-snippets-overview.md) — Learn how Pinecone Assistant retrieves context snippets with relevancy scores and references for RAG applications and agentic workflows. - [Create an assistant](./guides/build-an-assistant-create-assistant.md) — Create a Pinecone Assistant with custom instructions, metadata, and region settings using the API, Python SDK, Node.js SDK, or console. - [Embedding values changed when upserted](./guides/data-embedding-values-changed-when-upserted.md) — Diagnose why Pinecone embedding values appear changed after upsert, including float32 precision rounding and how the API serializes numeric vector data. - [Evaluate an answer](./guides/evaluation-2026-04-assistant-metrics-alignment.md) - [Evaluation overview](./guides/evaluate-answers-evaluation-overview.md) — Overview of Pinecone Assistant response evaluation: measure correctness, completeness, and alignment scores to benchmark RAG system quality. - [Files in Pinecone Assistant](./guides/upload-your-data-files-overview.md) — Overview of Pinecone Assistant files: supported file types (PDF, DOCX, JSON, MD, TXT), metadata filters, storage, and signed URL access. - [How Nexus works](./guides/the-knowledge-engine-how-it-works.md) — Pinecone Nexus distills curated artifacts for retrieval, then answers with code over a retrieval SDK. - [Increase search relevance](./guides/optimize-increase-relevance.md) — Improve Pinecone search quality with reranking models, metadata filtering, and hybrid search that combines full-text and vector retrieval for RAG. - [Index creation error - missing spec parameter](./guides/common-errors-index-creation-error-missing-spec.md) — Fix the Pinecone create_index TypeError for a missing spec parameter by passing the spec argument that sets the index's deployment model, cloud, and region. - [Index data overview](./guides/index-data-indexing-overview.md) — Learn how indexing works in Pinecone: serverless indexes, schemas, namespaces, integrated embedding, and metadata filtering. - [Indexes](./guides/database-indexes.md) - [List indexes](./guides/database-2026-07-control-plane-list-indexes.md) - [Create an index](./guides/database-2026-07-control-plane-create-index.md) — Create a Pinecone index. Define the schema for your index — dense vector, sparse vector, and full-text search fields — and, optionally, the deployment infrastructure (managed serverless or BYOC). To create an index with an integrated embedding model, use Create an index with integrated embedding. - [Create an index with integrated embedding](./guides/database-2026-07-control-plane-create-for-model.md) - [Describe an index](./guides/database-2026-07-control-plane-describe-index.md) - [Delete an index](./guides/database-2026-07-control-plane-delete-index.md) - [Configure an index](./guides/database-2026-07-control-plane-configure-index.md) - [Get index stats](./guides/database-2026-07-data-plane-describeindexstats.md) - [List indexes](./guides/database-2026-04-control-plane-list-indexes.md) - [Create an index](./guides/database-2026-04-control-plane-create-index.md) - [Create an index with integrated embedding](./guides/database-2026-04-control-plane-create-for-model.md) - [Describe an index](./guides/database-2026-04-control-plane-describe-index.md) - [Delete an index](./guides/database-2026-04-control-plane-delete-index.md) - [Configure an index](./guides/database-2026-04-control-plane-configure-index.md) - [Get index stats](./guides/database-2026-04-data-plane-describeindexstats.md) - [List indexes](./guides/database-2025-10-control-plane-list-indexes.md) - [Create an index](./guides/database-2025-10-control-plane-create-index.md) - [Create an index with integrated embedding](./guides/database-2025-10-control-plane-create-for-model.md) - [Describe an index](./guides/database-2025-10-control-plane-describe-index.md) - [Delete an index](./guides/database-2025-10-control-plane-delete-index.md) - [Configure an index](./guides/database-2025-10-control-plane-configure-index.md) - [Get index stats](./guides/database-2025-10-data-plane-describeindexstats.md) - [List indexes](./guides/database-2025-04-control-plane-list-indexes.md) - [Create an index](./guides/database-2025-04-control-plane-create-index.md) - [Create an index with integrated embedding](./guides/database-2025-04-control-plane-create-for-model.md) - [Describe an index](./guides/database-2025-04-control-plane-describe-index.md) - [Delete an index](./guides/database-2025-04-control-plane-delete-index.md) - [Configure an index](./guides/database-2025-04-control-plane-configure-index.md) — Configure an existing index. For serverless indexes, you can configure index deletion protection, tags, and integrated inference embedding settings for the index. For pod-based indexes, you can configure the pod size, number of replicas, tags, and index deletion protection. - [Get index stats](./guides/database-2025-04-data-plane-describeindexstats.md) - [List indexes](./guides/database-2025-01-control-plane-list-indexes.md) - [Create an index](./guides/database-2025-01-control-plane-create-index.md) - [Create an index with integrated embedding](./guides/database-2025-01-control-plane-create-for-model.md) - [Describe an index](./guides/database-2025-01-control-plane-describe-index.md) - [Delete an index](./guides/database-2025-01-control-plane-delete-index.md) - [Configure an index](./guides/database-2025-01-control-plane-configure-index.md) - [Get index stats](./guides/database-2025-01-data-plane-describeindexstats.md) - [List indexes](./guides/database-2024-10-control-plane-list-indexes.md) - [Create an index](./guides/database-2024-10-control-plane-create-index.md) - [Describe an index](./guides/database-2024-10-control-plane-describe-index.md) - [Delete an index](./guides/database-2024-10-control-plane-delete-index.md) - [Configure an index](./guides/database-2024-10-control-plane-configure-index.md) - [Get index stats](./guides/database-2024-10-data-plane-describeindexstats.md) - [List indexes](./guides/database-2024-07-control-plane-list-indexes.md) - [Create an index](./guides/database-2024-07-control-plane-create-index.md) - [Describe an index](./guides/database-2024-07-control-plane-describe-index.md) - [Delete an index](./guides/database-2024-07-control-plane-delete-index.md) - [Configure an index](./guides/database-2024-07-control-plane-configure-index.md) - [Get index stats](./guides/database-2024-07-data-plane-describeindexstats.md) - [List indexes](./guides/database-2024-04-control-plane-list-indexes.md) - [Create an index](./guides/database-2024-04-control-plane-create-index.md) - [Describe an index](./guides/database-2024-04-control-plane-describe-index.md) - [Delete an index](./guides/database-2024-04-control-plane-delete-index.md) — This operation deletes an existing index. - [Configure an index](./guides/database-2024-04-control-plane-configure-index.md) — This operation configures the pod size and number of replicas for a pod-based index. - [Get index stats](./guides/database-2024-04-data-plane-describeindexstats.md) - [Inference](./guides/inference-inference.md) - [Generate vectors](./guides/inference-2026-07-generate-vectors.md) - [Rerank results](./guides/inference-2026-07-rerank-results.md) - [List available models](./guides/inference-2026-07-list-available-models.md) - [Describe a model](./guides/inference-2026-07-describe-a-model.md) - [Integrate with cloud storage](./guides/operations-integrate-with-cloud-storage.md) - [Integrate with Amazon S3](./guides/operations-integrations-integrate-with-amazon-s3.md) — Set up a Pinecone storage integration with an Amazon S3 bucket using an IAM role to bulk import data into indexes and export audit logs. - [Integrate with Google Cloud Storage](./guides/operations-integrations-integrate-with-google-cloud-storage.md) — Set up a Pinecone storage integration with a Google Cloud Storage bucket using a service account key to bulk import data into your indexes. - [Integrate with Azure Blob Storage](./guides/operations-integrations-integrate-with-azure-blob-storage.md) — Set up a Pinecone storage integration with an Azure Blob Storage container using a service principal to bulk import data into your indexes. - [Manage storage integrations](./guides/operations-integrations-manage-storage-integrations.md) — Update or delete existing Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, and Azure Blob storage integrations for your Pinecone project in the console. - [Integration ecosystem](./guides/build-an-integration-integration-ecosystem.md) — How Pinecone integrations are built with public SDKs and APIs and how listings on the Integrations hub are reviewed for partner support and quality. - [Integrations](./guides/connect-an-integration-overview.md) — Browse Pinecone integrations across vector embedding providers, data ingestion tools, frameworks, and infrastructure to ship AI apps faster. - [List Files](./guides/files-2026-04-assistant-list-files.md) - [List assistants](./guides/assistants-2026-04-assistant-list-assistants.md) - [List operations](./guides/operations-2-list-operations.md) — List all operations for an assistant. Returns operations that are in progress, as well as recently completed or failed operations. - [Login code issues](./guides/account-management-login-code-issues.md) — Fix a rejected Pinecone login code, which can expire after 10 hours or be invalidated by a shared inbox, a newer code request, or an offset system clock. - [MCP server](./guides/tools-mcp-server.md) — Query your Pinecone Nexus contexts from any Model Context Protocol client, such as Claude Desktop, over Streamable HTTP. - [Manage Workspaces](./guides/control-plane-manage-workspaces.md) - [List workspaces](./guides/control-plane-list-workspaces.md) — List the workspaces in the project. Results are paginated; the pagination object is omitted when there are no further results. - [Create a workspace](./guides/control-plane-create-a-workspace.md) — Create a Nexus workspace. The workspace name must be unique within the project. - [Describe a workspace](./guides/control-plane-describe-a-workspace.md) — Get a description of a workspace. - [Delete a workspace](./guides/control-plane-delete-a-workspace.md) — Delete an existing workspace. Deletion is asynchronous: the workspace transitions to the Terminating state and its contexts are deleted, after which the workspace itself is removed. - [Manage billing](./guides/admin-manage-billing.md) - [Account deactivation for non-payment](./guides/admin-organizations-manage-billing-non-payment-account-deactivation.md) — Learn what happens when a Pinecone account is deactivated for non-payment: 30-day data retention, permanent deletion, and how to reactivate. - [Pinecone Standard plan trial](./guides/admin-organizations-manage-billing-standard-trial.md) — Evaluate the Pinecone Standard plan with $300 in credits over 21 days, including bulk import, backup and restore, RBAC, and higher scale limits. - [Upgrade your plan](./guides/admin-assistant-upgrade-billing-plan.md) — Learn how Pinecone Assistant admins upgrade to a paid plan to unlock higher limits, more files, evaluations, and advanced access controls. - [Change your payment method](./guides/admin-assistant-change-payment-method.md) — Update the credit card or payment method on file for your Pinecone organization to keep billing details current and avoid failed charges. - [Downgrade your plan](./guides/admin-assistant-downgrade-billing-plan.md) — Downgrade your Pinecone subscription from a paid tier back to the free Starter plan, including steps to review usage limits before switching. - [Download a usage report](./guides/admin-assistant-download-usage-report.md) — Export a detailed Pinecone usage and cost report for your organization to analyze index consumption, credits, and monthly billing charges. - [Access your invoices](./guides/admin-assistant-access-your-invoices.md) — View, download, and manage your Pinecone billing invoices from the console, including past invoice history, payment status, and PDF exports. - [Nexus BYOC overview](./guides/bring-your-own-cloud-overview.md) — Learn what Nexus BYOC is, how it relates to Database BYOC, and its architecture. - [Node.js Troubleshooting](./guides/miscellaneous-nodejs-troubleshooting.md) — Troubleshoot Pinecone Node.js SDK issues that work locally but fail in deployment, including environment, network, and serverless runtime configuration. - [Notebooks](./guides/examples-notebooks.md) — Runnable Colab notebooks covering semantic search, lexical search, hybrid search, RAG, embeddings, reranking, and data ingestion with Pinecone. - [Pinecone 2026 changelog](./guides/changelog-2026.md) — Every change to Pinecone in 2026, including new features, API updates, deprecations, and pricing and plan changes. - [Pinecone Assistant architecture](./guides/architecture-assistant-architecture.md) — Pinecone Assistant architecture overview covering document ingestion, chunking, vector retrieval, and LLM response generation for RAG. - [Pinecone Nexus](./guides/get-started-nexus-overview.md) — Pinecone Nexus is the knowledge engine for agents. It compiles your data into queryable knowledge once, then serves grounded, cited answers to agents on every call. - [Pinecone Nexus API](./guides/reference-introduction.md) — Programmatic access to Nexus workspaces, contexts, sources, curation, and KnowQL queries. - [Pinecone SDKs overview](./guides/sdks-pinecone-sdks.md) — Browse official Pinecone SDKs for Python, Node.js, Java, and Go, including the version mappings between SDK releases and API versions. - [Pinecone key terms](./guides/core-concepts-key-terms.md) — The key terms and objects in Pinecone and how they relate to each other. - [Production checklist](./guides/move-to-production-production-checklist.md) — Prepare Pinecone indexes for production with best practices for project structure, security, scaling, API keys, and reliability across your workloads. - [Retrieve context from an assistant](./guides/context-snippets-2026-04-assistant-context-assistant.md) - [Spark-Pinecone connector](./guides/tools-2-pinecone-spark-connector.md) — Pinecone data tools: Use the connector to efficiently create, ingest, and update vector embeddings at scale with Databricks and Pinecone. - [Target an index](./guides/manage-data-target-an-index.md) — Target a Pinecone index by host URL (recommended for production) or by name for data operations like upsert, query, and fetch across SDKs. - [Understanding Pinecone cost](./guides/manage-cost-understanding-cost.md) — Understand how Pinecone bills read units, write units, storage, egress, and embedding for full-text search, semantic search, and hybrid search. - [Understanding pod-based indexes](./guides/using-pods-understanding-pod-based-indexes.md) — Understand Pinecone pod-based indexes, including pod types and sizing. Pod indexes are legacy and unavailable to new customers, and serverless is recommended. - [Use an Assistant MCP server](./guides/integrate-with-ai-agents-mcp-server.md) — Connect AI agents to a Pinecone Assistant MCP server via remote or local Model Context Protocol endpoints, including Cursor and Claude Desktop. - [Wait for index creation to be complete](./guides/indexes-wait-for-index-creation.md) — Wait for Pinecone index creation to finish using describe_index polling in the Python SDK before upserting to avoid 403 or 404 errors. - [AGENTS PYTHON](./guides/more-agents-python.md) - [Architecture](./guides/core-concepts-architecture.md) — Learn how Pinecone is built, from organizations, projects, indexes, and namespaces down to the infrastructure that stores and serves your data. - [Attribute usage to your integration](./guides/build-an-integration-attribute-usage-to-your-integration.md) — Attribute Pinecone SDK and REST usage to your integration with source tags and User-Agent values so support and analytics can trace traffic to your product. - [Authentication](./guides/apis-assistant-authentication.md) — Assistant API authentication with API keys, HTTP headers, and SDK client initialization for Pinecone Assistant requests and RAG apps. - [Authentication](./guides/reference-authentication.md) — Authenticate to the Nexus API with your Pinecone API key, sent directly or exchanged for a short-lived session token. - [Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC)](./guides/move-to-production-bring-your-own-cloud.md) — Deploy Pinecone BYOC in your own AWS, GCP, or Azure account for data sovereignty, network isolation, and regional data residency requirements. - [CLI command reference](./guides/cli-command-reference.md) — Complete Pinecone CLI command reference covering syntax, subcommands, flags, help output, and exit codes for auth, index, and project. - [CORS Issues](./guides/miscellaneous-cors-issues.md) — Troubleshoot Pinecone CORS errors and Access-Control-Allow-Origin issues when calling the API from localhost or browser-based web apps. - [Chat through an OpenAI-compatible interface](./guides/chat-2026-04-assistant-chat-completion-assistant.md) - [Chat through the OpenAI-compatible interface](./guides/chat-with-an-assistant-chat-through-the-openai-compatible-interface.md) — Chat with Pinecone Assistant using the OpenAI-compatible Chat Completion API for inline citations, streaming responses, and easy integration. - [Context design](./guides/the-knowledge-engine-context-design-2.md) - [Context design overview](./guides/the-knowledge-engine-context-design.md) — Learn how a Pinecone Nexus context's manifest turns your sources into queryable knowledge. - [Design your own manifest](./guides/the-knowledge-engine-design-your-own-manifest.md) — Author a Pinecone Nexus context's manifest through the API by defining custom artifact and edge types, then curating. - [Configure artifact formats](./guides/the-knowledge-engine-configure-artifact-formats.md) — Configure Pinecone Nexus artifact types as markdown prose or queryable SQLite tables through the manifest API. - [Create an assistant](./guides/assistants-2026-04-assistant-create-assistant.md) - [Create and configure](./guides/index-data-create-and-configure.md) - [Create an index](./guides/index-data-create-an-index.md) — Create a Pinecone serverless index for full-text (BM25), semantic (dense vector), sparse-vector, or hybrid search with a document schema. - [Configure metadata indexing](./guides/index-data-configure-metadata-indexing.md) — Limit metadata indexing in Pinecone to the fields you filter on, to keep index building and query execution fast. - [Custom data processing agreements](./guides/account-management-custom-data-processing-agreements.md) — Request a custom data processing agreement (DPA) with Pinecone if your team requires terms beyond the standard agreement available on the Pinecone website. - [Describe an operation](./guides/operations-2-describe-operation.md) — Get the status of an operation. - [Evaluate an answer](./guides/evaluation-2025-10-assistant-metrics-alignment.md) - [Evaluate answers](./guides/evaluate-answers-evaluate-answers.md) — Evaluate RAG system answers with Pinecone Assistant using correctness, completeness, and alignment metrics against a ground truth answer. - [How to work with Support](./guides/contact-support-how-to-work-with-support.md) — Get faster answers from Pinecone Support: try the AI support chatbot, use your account email, open tickets in the console, and pick an accurate severity. - [IDEs & CLIs](./guides/connect-an-integration-ides-clis.md) - [Agentic IDEs and CLIs](./guides/connect-an-integration-ai-coding-tools.md) — Use Pinecone with agentic IDEs and CLIs like Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and Cursor via MCP server, plugins, and agent skills for vector search. - [Agent Skills](./guides/connect-an-integration-agent-skills.md) — Install the Pinecone Agent Skills library in any agentic IDE to manage indexes, run semantic search, and build RAG assistants with natural language. - [Claude Code Plugin](./guides/connect-an-integration-claude-code.md) — Install the official Pinecone plugin for Claude Code to manage indexes, run vector search, and build RAG assistants from the terminal with slash commands. - [Cursor Plugin](./guides/connect-an-integration-cursor.md) — Install the official Pinecone plugin for Cursor to manage indexes, run vector search, and build RAG apps from the editor using MCP and slash commands. - [Gemini CLI Extension](./guides/connect-an-integration-gemini-cli.md) — Install the official Pinecone extension for Gemini CLI to manage indexes, run vector search, and build RAG assistants with natural-language commands. - [Increase throughput](./guides/optimize-increase-throughput.md) — Increase Pinecone throughput with bulk import from object storage, batch upserts, parallel requests, and the Python gRPC SDK for faster ingestion. - [Limitations of querying by ID](./guides/data-limitations-of-querying-by-id.md) — Understand why querying by record ID can omit that ID under ANN search, and when to use fetch or metadata filters to retrieve a specific vector reliably. - [Manage assistants](./guides/build-an-assistant-manage-assistants.md) — List, describe, update, and delete Pinecone assistants and check assistant status using the API, Python SDK, Node.js SDK, or Pinecone console. - [Manage cost](./guides/manage-cost-manage-cost.md) — Reduce Pinecone spend with strategies like spend alerts, ID-prefix listing, multitenant namespaces, prepaid credits, and support cost optimization help. - [Manage serverless indexes](./guides/manage-data-manage-indexes.md) — List, describe, configure, and delete serverless indexes in Pinecone, including tags, deletion protection, and metadata index configuration. - [Migrate a pod-based index to serverless](./guides/using-pods-migrate-a-pod-based-index-to-serverless.md) — Migrate a Pinecone pod-based index to serverless for automatic scaling, better performance, and usage-based pricing with no minimum spend commitment. - [Nexus BYOC data residency and limits](./guides/bring-your-own-cloud-reference.md) — See where your data lives and travels in Nexus BYOC, plus its authentication, encryption, cluster footprint, and limitations. - [Nexus quickstart](./guides/get-started-nexus-quickstart.md) — Deploy Pinecone Nexus with BYOC, curate a context from your own documents, and run KnowQL queries that return grounded, cited multi-document answers. - [Pinecone 2025 changelog](./guides/changelog-2025.md) — Every change to Pinecone in 2025, including new features, API updates, deprecations, and pricing and plan changes. - [Pinecone datasets](./guides/tools-2-pinecone-datasets.md) — Use the pinecone-datasets Python library to load public Pinecone example datasets and iterate over vectors to automate benchmark queries. - [Python](./guides/sdks-python.md) - [Pinecone Python SDK](./guides/sdks-python-overview.md) — Install and use the Pinecone SDK for Pinecone Python SDK: auth, typed clients, and API operations. For installation instructions, usage examples, and. - [Restrictions on index names](./guides/indexes-restrictions-on-index-names.md) — Learn the rules for Pinecone index names: lowercase alphanumeric Latin characters and dashes only, no dots, and 52 characters total with your project ID. - [Retrieve context from an assistant](./guides/context-snippets-2025-10-assistant-context-assistant.md) - [Retrieve context snippets](./guides/retrieve-context-snippets-retrieve-context-snippets.md) — Retrieve context snippets and citations from a Pinecone Assistant to power your own LLM, RAG application, or agentic workflow with signed URLs. - [Sample apps](./guides/examples-sample-apps.md) — Sample apps and tools built with Pinecone, including semantic search, multi-tenant RAG, multimodal search, Assistant chat, and pgvector migration. - [Serverless index creation error - max serverless indexes](./guides/common-errors-index-creation-error-max-serverless.md) — Resolve the Pinecone serverless index creation error caused by hitting the 20-index project limit by deleting unused indexes or upgrading your plan. - [Upload a file](./guides/files-2026-04-assistant-upload-file.md) - [Upload files](./guides/upload-your-data-upload-files.md) — Upload local files to a Pinecone assistant with Python, JavaScript, or curl, track ingestion operations, and see how uploads are billed as ingestion units. - [CLI authentication](./guides/cli-authentication.md) — Authenticate the Pinecone CLI using user login, service accounts, or API keys, including auth priority and Admin API access rules. - [CLIP-ViT-B-32-laion2B-s34B-b79K](./guides/more-models-clip-vit-b-32-laion2b-s34b-b79k.md) — It's particularly well-suited for tasks like: - Zero-Shot Image Classification: Classify images based on text descriptions without further training. - [Chat with an assistant](./guides/chat-2025-10-assistant-chat-assistant.md) - [Check assistant status](./guides/assistants-2026-04-assistant-describe-assistant.md) - [Choose a pod type and size](./guides/using-pods-choose-a-pod-type-and-size.md) — Choose a Pinecone pod type and size (s1, p1, p2). Pod indexes are legacy and unavailable to new customers, and serverless needs no capacity planning. - [Connect your users to Pinecone](./guides/build-an-integration-connect-your-users-to-pinecone.md) — Embed a Connect to Pinecone flow in your app or notebook so users can sign in, choose a project, and receive an API key without leaving your integration. - [Debug model vs. Pinecone recall issues](./guides/miscellaneous-debug-model-vs-pinecone-recall-issues.md) — Distinguish an embedding model problem from a Pinecone recall problem using a six-step evaluation that compares brute-force search against your index. - [Decrease latency](./guides/optimize-decrease-latency.md) — Reduce query and upsert latency in Pinecone using namespaces, metadata filters, targeting indexes by host, and regional colocation strategies. - [Delete your organization](./guides/account-management-delete-your-organization.md) — Delete a Pinecone organization by first deleting its indexes, collections, and projects, then downgrading to the Starter plan. This can't be undone. - [Deploy Nexus BYOC](./guides/bring-your-own-cloud-deploy.md) — Install and operate Pinecone Nexus in your own cloud account. - [Enforce security](./guides/move-to-production-enforce-security.md) - [Security overview](./guides/move-to-production-security-overview.md) — Overview of Pinecone security features for production: API keys, SSO, service accounts, audit logs, CMEK encryption, backups, and Private Endpoints. - [Manage roles and access](./guides/move-to-production-manage-rbac.md) — Assign and manage roles for users, service accounts, and API keys using the Pinecone console or the Admin API. - [Manage roles with Okta](./guides/move-to-production-configure-single-sign-on-okta-role-management.md) — Automatically assign Pinecone organization and project roles from SAML attributes with Okta. - [SCIM provisioning with Okta](./guides/move-to-production-configure-single-sign-on-okta-scim-provisioning.md) — Automatically provision members and roles from Okta to Pinecone over SCIM. - [Configure customer-managed encryption keys](./guides/move-to-production-configure-cmek.md) — Set up customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) with AWS KMS to encrypt Pinecone data with keys you control, using IAM roles and key policies. - [Configure Private Endpoints](./guides/move-to-production-configure-private-endpoints.md) — Configure Pinecone Private Endpoints with AWS PrivateLink or Azure Private Link to keep index traffic off the public internet and secure VPCs. - [Data deletion on Pinecone](./guides/move-to-production-data-deletion.md) — Learn how Pinecone permanently deletes customer data, including soft deletion, the 90-day retention window, and secure erasure of records and indexes. - [Configure audit logs](./guides/move-to-production-configure-audit-logs.md) — Enable Pinecone audit logging to an Amazon S3 bucket to track user, service account, and API actions for compliance, security review, and WORM retention. - [Evaluate an answer](./guides/evaluation-2025-04-assistant-metrics-alignment.md) - [Manage namespaces](./guides/manage-data-manage-namespaces.md) — Create, describe, list, and delete namespaces in Pinecone serverless indexes, including defining filterable metadata fields and schemas ahead of upsert. - [Monitor usage and costs](./guides/manage-cost-monitor-usage-and-costs.md) — Monitor Pinecone usage and costs at the organization, index, and operation level by tracking read units, write units, and storage consumption. - [Multimodal context for assistants](./guides/upload-your-data-multimodal.md) — Enable multimodal PDF context in Pinecone Assistant to analyze charts, images, and diagrams using OCR and visual understanding for RAG. - [Nexus key concepts](./guides/get-started-nexus-concepts.md) — Learn the core Pinecone Nexus concepts: sources, workspaces, contexts, manifests, artifacts, tasks, sessions, and queries, and how they connect. - [Pinecone 2024 changelog](./guides/changelog-2024.md) — Every change to Pinecone in 2024, including new features, API updates, deprecations, and pricing and plan changes. - [Pinecone Assistant limits](./guides/apis-assistant-assistant-limits.md) — Reference for Pinecone Assistant limits, including file size, storage, chat token, and rate limits across the Starter, Builder, Standard, and Enterprise plans. - [Pinecone Support SLAs](./guides/contact-support-pinecone-support-slas.md) — Look up Pinecone Support first-response SLAs by support plan and ticket severity, from 30 minutes on a Premium Sev-1 to business days at lower severities. - [Reference architectures](./guides/examples-reference-architectures.md) — Official AWS reference architecture for building high-scale production systems with Pinecone, including Pulumi IaC, documentation, and video tutorial. - [Retrieve context from an assistant](./guides/context-snippets-2025-04-assistant-context-assistant.md) - [Return all vectors in an index](./guides/indexes-return-all-vectors-in-an-index.md) — Learn why a single Pinecone query can't return every vector in an index, and how to page through record IDs with the list operation instead. - [Serverless index connection errors](./guides/common-errors-serverless-index-connection-errors.md) — Fix Pinecone serverless connection errors that fail to resolve a controller hostname by upgrading to a current version of the Python or Node.js SDK. - [Upsert a file](./guides/files-2026-04-assistant-upsert-file.md) — Create or replace a file in the specified assistant. If a file with the given assistant_file_id already exists, it will be replaced with the new file. If it doesn't exist, a new file will be created with that identifier. - [API reference](./guides/apis-introduction.md) — Pinecone API reference overview for Database, Inference, and Admin endpoints with supported SDKs including Python, Node.js, Java, and Go. - [Assistant examples](./guides/examples-assistant.md) — Notebooks and Next.js sample apps for Pinecone Assistant: quickstart, context snippet retrieval, and a full-stack chat UI with citations. - [CLI target context](./guides/cli-target-context.md) — Set the Pinecone CLI target context with pc target to control which organization and project your commands run against, including in CI/CD and JSON mode. - [Chat through an OpenAI-compatible interface](./guides/chat-2025-10-assistant-chat-completion-assistant.md) - [Create a pod-based index](./guides/using-pods-create-a-pod-based-index.md) — Create a Pinecone pod-based index. Pod indexes are legacy and unavailable to new customers, and serverless is the current option for new indexes. - [Delete your account](./guides/account-management-delete-your-account.md) — Delete your Pinecone account by removing your user from every organization and deleting any organization where you are the sole member. This is permanent. - [Describe a file](./guides/files-2026-04-assistant-describe-file.md) — Get the current status and metadata of a file uploaded to an assistant. - [Error: Handshake read failed when connecting](./guides/common-errors-error-handshake-read-failed.md) — Fix the Pinecone 'Handshake read failed' connection error by checking your firewall and network, then verifying your SDK setup and API key are correct. - [Evaluate an answer](./guides/evaluation-2025-01-assistant-metrics-alignment.md) - [Manage backups](./guides/manage-data-manage-backups.md) - [Backups overview](./guides/manage-data-backups-overview.md) — Learn how serverless index backups work in Pinecone, including scheduled backups, retention policies, and use cases for restoring or copying data. - [Back up an index](./guides/manage-data-back-up-an-index.md) — Create backups of serverless indexes to protect data, copy indexes, or experiment with configurations using the Pinecone SDK, API, or console. - [Restore an index](./guides/manage-data-restore-an-index.md) — Restore a Pinecone serverless index from a backup, change the index name, tags, or deletion protection, and preserve embedding model configuration. - [Manage files](./guides/upload-your-data-manage-files.md) — List files in your Pinecone assistant, check individual file ingestion status by ID, view metadata, and delete files using the API, SDKs, or console. - [Node.js](./guides/sdks-node-js.md) - [Pinecone Node.js SDK](./guides/sdks-node-overview.md) — Install and use the Pinecone Node.js and TypeScript SDK to manage indexes, upsert vectors, run semantic search, and call the Admin and Inference APIs. - [Pinecone 2023 changelog](./guides/changelog-2023.md) — Every change to Pinecone in 2023, including new features, API updates, deprecations, and pricing and plan changes. - [Pinecone Assistant](./guides/get-started-assistant-overview.md) — Overview of Pinecone Assistant, a managed service for building production-grade RAG chat and agent applications grounded in your data. - [Project](./guides/data-plane-project.md) - [Get the active project](./guides/data-plane-project-get-the-active-project.md) — The project the session is scoped to, plus whether this deployment requires a workspace host. - [Project-wide task stats](./guides/data-plane-project-project-wide-task-stats.md) — Aggregate task counters across the whole project (all contexts), broken down by state and workflow. The per-context equivalent is GET /contexts/{slug}/tasks/stats. - [Retrieve context from an assistant](./guides/context-snippets-2025-01-assistant-context-assistant.md) - [Save on Pinecone costs](./guides/optimize-save-on-costs.md) — Save on Pinecone costs by using bulk import over upsert, namespaces for multitenancy, and query patterns that reduce read unit consumption. - [Unable to pip install](./guides/miscellaneous-unable-to-pip-install.md) — Resolve install issues for the Pinecone Python SDK: pick the right Python 3.x command, install pinecone or pinecone with gRPC, and upgrade to the latest. - [Update an assistant](./guides/assistants-2026-04-assistant-update-assistant.md) - [all-MiniLM-L12-v2](./guides/more-models-all-minilm-l12-v2.md) — Use the all-MiniLM-L12-v2 embedding or reranking model with Pinecone: specs and index setup. all-MiniLM-L12-v2 is a sentence and short paragraph encoder. - [Authentication](./guides/apis-authentication.md) — Pinecone API authentication guide covering API key generation, SDK client setup, and HTTP header configuration for authorized requests. - [Billing disputes and refunds](./guides/account-management-billing-disputes-and-refunds.md) — Understand Pinecone's policy of not refunding unused indexes, and why migrating a pod-based index to serverless can lower a bill you'd otherwise dispute. - [Chat with an assistant](./guides/chat-2025-04-assistant-chat-assistant.md) - [Data modeling](./guides/index-data-data-modeling.md) — Model your data in Pinecone using documents with dense_vector, sparse_vector, full-text string, and metadata fields for efficient retrieval. - [Delete a file](./guides/files-2026-04-assistant-delete-file.md) - [Delete an assistant](./guides/assistants-2026-04-assistant-delete-assistant.md) - [Manage pod-based indexes](./guides/using-pods-manage-pod-based-indexes.md) — Manage Pinecone pod-based indexes. Pod indexes are legacy and unavailable to new customers, and serverless is recommended for new projects. - [Pinecone 2022 changelog](./guides/changelog-2022.md) — Every change to Pinecone in 2022, including new features, API updates, deprecations, and pricing and plan changes. - [Pinecone documentation](./guides/get-started-overview.md) — Pinecone is the vector database for AI agents and applications, built for semantic search, knowledge retrieval, and long-term memory at scale. - [PineconeAttribute errors with LangChain](./guides/common-errors-pinecone-attribute-errors-with-langchain.md) — Resolve PineconeAttribute errors in LangChain caused by outdated packages by upgrading langchain-pinecone and the Pinecone Python SDK to current releases. - [Semantic search](./guides/examples-sample-apps-legal-semantic-search.md) — Next.js sample app for semantic search over PDF legal documents using Pinecone serverless indexes and Voyage AI voyage-law-2 embeddings. - [Test Pinecone at scale](./guides/optimize-test-at-scale.md) — Benchmark Pinecone at production scale by importing 10M vectors and measuring semantic search throughput, query latency, and costs. - [all-mpnet-base-v2](./guides/more-models-all-mpnet-base-v2.md) — Use the all-mpnet-base-v2 embedding or reranking model with Pinecone: specs and index setup. all-mpnet-base-v2 is a sentence and short paragraph encoder. - [Chat through an OpenAI-compatible interface](./guides/chat-2025-04-assistant-chat-completion-assistant.md) - [Data ingestion](./guides/index-data-data-ingestion.md) - [Data ingestion overview](./guides/index-data-data-ingestion-overview.md) — Compare data ingestion options in Pinecone: bulk import from object storage, upsert operations, and hosted embedding via the Inference API. - [Upsert records](./guides/index-data-upsert-data.md) — Upsert dense, sparse, and text records into Pinecone indexes, batch upserts for higher throughput, and partition data with namespaces. - [Import records](./guides/index-data-import-data.md) — Import large datasets efficiently from Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, or Azure Blob Storage into Pinecone serverless indexes using object storage. - [Migrate from pgvector](./guides/index-data-migrate-from-pgvector.md) — Migrate vector data from pgvector to Pinecone Database, validate search results, synchronize incremental changes, and cut over application traffic. - [Check data freshness](./guides/index-data-check-data-freshness.md) — Check data freshness in Pinecone serverless indexes using log sequence numbers (LSNs) and vector counts to verify recent upserts and deletes. - [Embed](./guides/inference-embed.md) - [Generate vectors](./guides/inference-2026-04-generate-embeddings.md) - [Generate vectors](./guides/inference-2025-10-generate-embeddings.md) - [Generate vectors](./guides/inference-2025-04-generate-embeddings.md) - [Generate vectors](./guides/inference-2025-01-generate-embeddings.md) - [Error: Cannot import name 'Pinecone' from 'pinecone'](./guides/common-errors-error-cannot-import-name-pinecone.md) — Fix the Python ImportError 'cannot import name Pinecone from pinecone' by upgrading the Pinecone Python SDK to 3.0.0 or later, with or without gRPC. - [Integrate with AI agents](./guides/operations-integrate-with-ai-agents.md) - [Use the Pinecone MCP server](./guides/operations-mcp-server.md) — Connect AI agents to Pinecone through the MCP server to search docs, manage indexes, and query data from Claude, Cursor, Antigravity, or Claude Code. - [Build a knowledge retrieval agent](./guides/operations-build-a-knowledge-agent.md) — Build an AI agent that uses Pinecone to retrieve knowledge and answer questions accurately, with Pinecone as a tool inside the agent. - [Java](./guides/sdks-java.md) - [Pinecone Java SDK](./guides/sdks-java-overview.md) — Install and use the Pinecone Java SDK to manage indexes and namespaces, upsert vectors, run semantic search, and call the Admin and Inference APIs from Java. - [OpenTelemetry support](./guides/sdks-java-open-telemetry.md) — Monitor Pinecone Java SDK operations with OpenTelemetry metrics for client latency, server processing time, and errors via Prometheus. - [List Files](./guides/files-2025-10-assistant-list-files.md) - [List assistants](./guides/assistants-2025-10-assistant-list-assistants.md) - [Multi-tenant RAG](./guides/examples-sample-apps-namespace-notes.md) — Next.js multi-tenant RAG sample app that uses Pinecone namespaces to isolate document context and chatbot memory per workspace tenant. - [Nexus curation](./guides/the-knowledge-engine-how-curation-works.md) — Curation is the write path that turns sources into chunks and artifacts incrementally, driven by the manifest. - [Pinecone API versioning](./guides/apis-versioning.md) — Learn how Pinecone versions its APIs by release date, how long each stable version is supported, and how to set the X-Pinecone-Api-Version header. - [Pinecone feature availability](./guides/changelog-feature-availability.md) — Pinecone feature availability across public preview, general availability, and limited availability releases, with links to the relevant changelog entries. - [Quickstart](./guides/get-started-quickstart-2.md) - [Pinecone quickstart](./guides/get-started-quickstart.md) — Get started with Pinecone in minutes. Pick the path that matches what you're searching for and run your first search. - [Ingest your own files](./guides/get-started-quickstart-ingest-files.md) — Turn a folder of documents into a searchable index: extract text, chunk it, embed the chunks, and upsert. - [Bring your own vectors](./guides/get-started-quickstart-bring-your-own-vectors.md) — Create an index with a dense-vector field, upsert embeddings you already have, and run semantic search. - [Try full-text search](./guides/get-started-quickstart-full-text-search.md) — Create an index, load documents, and run your first full-text (keyword) search in about five minutes. - [Pinecone Assistant: SDK quickstart](./guides/get-started-assistant-quickstart-sdk-quickstart.md) — Quickstart for Pinecone Assistant using the Python or Node.js SDK to create an assistant, upload documents, and chat with your data via RAG. - [Pinecone Assistant: n8n quickstart](./guides/get-started-assistant-quickstart-n8n-quickstart.md) — Build an n8n workflow with Pinecone Assistant and OpenAI to download files via HTTP, upload documents, and chat with them from an automation. - [Scale pod-based indexes](./guides/using-pods-scale-pod-based-indexes.md) — Scale Pinecone pod-based indexes by adding pods or replicas. Pod indexes are legacy and unavailable to new customers, and serverless scales automatically. - [bge-reranker-v2-m3](./guides/more-models-bge-reranker-v2-m3.md) — Use the bge-reranker-v2-m3 embedding or reranking model with Pinecone: specs and index setup. This is an open source, high performance, multilingual model. - [Back up and restore](./guides/using-pods-back-up-and-restore.md) - [Understanding collections](./guides/using-pods-understanding-collections.md) — Legacy documentation for Pinecone collections, a pod-only feature for creating static index snapshots. Collections aren't available for serverless indexes. - [Back up a pod-based index](./guides/using-pods-back-up-a-pod-based-index.md) — Legacy guide for backing up Pinecone pod-based indexes using collections. Collections are a pod-only feature not available for serverless indexes. - [Restore a pod-based index](./guides/using-pods-restore-a-pod-based-index.md) — Legacy guide for restoring Pinecone pod-based indexes from collections. Pod indexes are no longer available to new customers as of August 2025. - [CLIP](./guides/more-models-clip.md) — CLIP (Contrastive Language–Image Pre-training) builds on a large body of work on zero-shot transfer, natural language supervision, and multimodal learning. - [Chat with an assistant](./guides/chat-2025-01-assistant-chat-assistant.md) - [Connectors](./guides/data-plane-connectors.md) - [List the project's linked connectors](./guides/data-plane-connectors-list-the-projects-linked-connectors.md) — The project's linked source providers. Filter by kind to those valid for a context kind. - [Get a connector](./guides/data-plane-connectors-get-a-connector.md) — One linked connector, secrets stripped. - [Unlink a connector](./guides/data-plane-connectors-unlink-a-connector.md) — Unlink the connector from the project. Sources it already imported stay in place. - [Start the OAuth link flow for a provider](./guides/data-plane-connectors-start-the-oauth-link-flow-for-a-provider.md) — Returns an authorize_url for the user to open in a browser. The connector is persisted by the provider's OAuth redirect callback once the user approves access. - [Link a connector with an API key](./guides/data-plane-connectors-link-a-connector-with-an-api-key.md) — Link a key-based provider by supplying its API key directly, instead of running the OAuth flow. - [Browse a connector's folders/files](./guides/data-plane-connectors-browse-a-connectors-foldersfiles.md) — Browse the provider's folders and files to find the ids to import. Omit folder for the root. - [List a context's connectors (with per-context enabled flag)](./guides/data-plane-connectors-list-a-contexts-connectors-with-per-context-enabled-flag.md) — The project's connectors, each with whether this context may import from it. - [Enable or disable a connector for a context](./guides/data-plane-connectors-enable-or-disable-a-connector-for-a-context.md) — Enable or disable one connector for this context. - [Create an assistant](./guides/assistants-2025-10-assistant-create-assistant.md) - [Database limits](./guides/apis-database-limits-2.md) - [Pinecone Database limits overview](./guides/apis-database-limits.md) — Reference for Pinecone Database rate, object, operation, and identifier limits, plus known index and serverless limitations. - [Rate limits](./guides/apis-database-limits-rate-limits.md) — Request-per-second, monthly usage, and model throughput limits for Pinecone Database serverless indexes, and the 429 errors returned when you exceed them. - [Object limits](./guides/apis-database-limits-object-limits.md) — Limits on the number and size of Pinecone Database projects, indexes, namespaces, storage, backups, and collections, by plan. - [Operation limits](./guides/apis-database-limits-operation-limits.md) — Fixed limits on Pinecone Database operations, including upsert, update, import, query, fetch, and delete batch sizes and metadata filter expressions. - [Identifier limits](./guides/apis-database-limits-identifier-limits.md) — Maximum length and allowed characters for Pinecone identifiers, including organization, project, index, namespace, and record names. - [Known limitations](./guides/apis-known-limitations.md) — Known limitations and feature restrictions for Pinecone indexes, including upsert consistency, metadata rules, and serverless caveats. - [Nexus model guidance](./guides/the-knowledge-engine-models.md) — Learn how Pinecone Nexus uses models for generation, curation, and retrieval, and how to choose the right one. - [Pinecone Assistant](./guides/examples-sample-apps-pinecone-assistant.md) — Next.js sample chat app that connects to a Pinecone Assistant for grounded answers over uploaded PDFs with citations and file references. - [Python AttributeError: module pinecone has no attribute init](./guides/common-errors-module-pinecone-has-no-attribute-init.md) — Fix the Python AttributeError 'module pinecone has no attribute init' by upgrading to Pinecone Python SDK 3.0 or later, which serverless indexes require. - [Upload file to assistant](./guides/files-2025-10-assistant-upload-file.md) - [Chat through an OpenAI-compatible interface](./guides/chat-2025-01-assistant-chat-completion-assistant.md) - [Check assistant status](./guides/assistants-2025-10-assistant-describe-assistant.md) - [Data sources](./guides/connect-an-integration-data-sources.md) - [Airbyte](./guides/connect-an-integration-airbyte.md) — Use the Airbyte Pinecone destination connector to build no-code ETL pipelines that embed source data and upsert vectors for semantic search and RAG. - [Apify](./guides/connect-an-integration-apify.md) — Use the Apify Pinecone integration to crawl and scrape websites, embed the results, and upsert vectors for RAG and semantic search over web content. - [Aryn](./guides/connect-an-integration-aryn.md) — Use Aryn Sycamore and the Partitioning Service with Pinecone to extract, chunk, and embed complex PDFs and documents for higher-accuracy RAG pipelines. - [Box](./guides/connect-an-integration-box.md) — Connect Box folders to Pinecone Database to embed documents with Pinecone Inference and build RAG agents and semantic search over Box content. - [Confluent](./guides/connect-an-integration-confluent.md) — Use the Pinecone Sink Connector for Confluent Kafka to stream events, embed them with LLMs, and upsert vectors for real-time semantic search and RAG. - [Databricks](./guides/connect-an-integration-databricks.md) — Use Databricks and the Pinecone Spark connector to distribute embedding jobs across a cluster and upsert vectors at scale for semantic search and RAG. - [Datavolo](./guides/connect-an-integration-datavolo.md) — Use Datavolo pipelines to source, transform, and enrich unstructured data into Pinecone for retrieval augmented generation and multimodal AI apps. - [Estuary](./guides/connect-an-integration-estuary.md) — Use the Estuary Pinecone connector to build real-time, millisecond-latency pipelines that incrementally embed source data for LLM search and RAG. - [Fleak](./guides/connect-an-integration-fleak.md) — Use Fleak's low-code workflows with Pinecone to combine SQL, LLM inference, and vector search in serverless APIs for RAG and data enrichment pipelines. - [FlowiseAI](./guides/connect-an-integration-flowise.md) — Use FlowiseAI with Pinecone to build low-code LLM apps that upsert documents and query vector indexes for RAG chatbots and semantic search flows. - [Gathr](./guides/connect-an-integration-gathr.md) — Use Gathr's no-code data-to-outcome platform with Pinecone to build enterprise RAG apps, chatbots, and vector pipelines from ingestion through deployment. - [Matillion](./guides/connect-an-integration-matillion.md) — Use Matillion Data Productivity Cloud to chunk, embed, and upsert data into Pinecone with low-code AI pipelines for RAG, ETL, and GenAI apps. - [Nexla](./guides/connect-an-integration-nexla.md) — Use Nexla no-code data pipelines to ingest from SharePoint, OneDrive, and 500+ sources into Pinecone for enterprise RAG and vector search apps. - [Redpanda](./guides/connect-an-integration-redpanda.md) — Stream events into Pinecone with Redpanda Connect's declarative YAML pipelines for real-time vector ingestion, at-least-once delivery, and RAG ETL. - [Snowflake](./guides/connect-an-integration-snowflake.md) — Deploy Pinecone on Snowpark Container Services to run vector search and GenAI apps inside Snowflake without moving data out of your warehouse. - [StreamNative](./guides/connect-an-integration-streamnative.md) — Pipe Apache Pulsar topics to Pinecone via the StreamNative sink connector for real-time vector ingestion, event streaming, and Kafka-compatible RAG. - [Unstructured](./guides/connect-an-integration-unstructured.md) — Use Unstructured to parse, chunk, and load PDFs, Word, and 25+ document types into Pinecone for LLM-ready RAG ETL pipelines and semantic search apps. - [Describe a file upload](./guides/files-2025-10-assistant-describe-file.md) - [Multimodal search](./guides/examples-sample-apps-shop-the-look.md) — Sample Next.js + FastAPI app for multimodal search across text, images, and videos using Pinecone and Google Vertex AI multimodal embeddings. - [Queries and sessions](./guides/the-knowledge-engine-queries-and-sessions.md) - [Nexus queries](./guides/the-knowledge-engine-how-queries-work.md) — Pinecone Nexus queries gather evidence and compose a grounded, cited answer. - [Query tracing](./guides/the-knowledge-engine-query-tracing.md) — Inspect a Pinecone Nexus query trace to see reasoning steps, retrieval tool calls, token usage, latency, cost breakdown, and cache savings. - [Update data](./guides/manage-data-update-data.md) — Patch fields on Pinecone documents by ID, update record metadata and vector values by ID, or update metadata across documents and records with a filter. - [embed-english-light-v3.0](./guides/more-models-cohere-embed-english-light-v3-0.md) — Cohere embed-english-light-v3.0 on Pinecone: 384-dim text embeddings, 512-token context, low-dimensional storage for fast semantic search. - [Delete an uploaded file](./guides/files-2025-10-assistant-delete-file.md) - [Delete data](./guides/manage-data-delete-data.md) — Delete Pinecone documents or records from a namespace by ID or metadata filter, or delete every document or record the namespace holds. - [Go](./guides/sdks-go.md) - [Pinecone Go SDK](./guides/sdks-go-overview.md) — Install and use the Pinecone Go SDK to manage indexes and namespaces, upsert vectors, run semantic search, and call the Admin and Inference APIs from Go. - [Local development with Pinecone Local](./guides/operations-local-development.md) — Run Pinecone Local, an in-memory Docker emulator, to develop and test apps offline without an account or usage fees. - [Manage security](./guides/admin-manage-security.md) - [Security overview](./guides/admin-assistant-security-overview.md) — Overview of Pinecone Assistant admin security features including API keys, single sign-on, service accounts, and audit logs across your organization. - [Manage roles and access](./guides/admin-assistant-manage-rbac.md) — Assign organization and project roles to users, service accounts, and API keys in Pinecone Assistant, with common role combinations for each scenario. - [Configure SSO with Okta](./guides/admin-assistant-configure-sso-with-okta.md) — Integrate Okta with Pinecone to enable single sign-on, configure SAML settings, and manage secure user authentication for your organization. - [Configure audit logs](./guides/admin-assistant-configure-audit-logs.md) — Set up Pinecone audit logs streamed to an Amazon S3 bucket to track user, service account, and API actions across the control plane. - [Update an assistant](./guides/assistants-2025-10-assistant-update-assistant.md) - [embed-english-v3.0](./guides/more-models-cohere-embed-english-v3-0.md) — Use Cohere embed-english-v3.0 with Pinecone for English embeddings: 1024 dimensions, cosine or dot product, and query vs document input types. - [Delete an assistant](./guides/assistants-2025-10-assistant-delete-assistant.md) - [Fetch data](./guides/manage-data-fetch-data.md) — Retrieve Pinecone documents or records from a namespace by ID or metadata filter to inspect their fields, vector values, and metadata. - [List Files](./guides/files-2025-04-assistant-list-files.md) - [embed-multilingual-v3.0](./guides/more-models-cohere-embed-multilingual-v3-0.md) — Use the embed-multilingual-v3.0 embedding or reranking model with Pinecone: specs and index setup. Multilingual embedding model ideal for easy to use text. - [List IDs](./guides/manage-data-list-record-ids.md) — List the IDs of Pinecone documents or records in a namespace of a serverless index, filter them by ID prefix, and paginate through the results. - [List assistants](./guides/assistants-2025-04-assistant-list-assistants.md) - [Rerank](./guides/inference-rerank.md) - [Rerank results](./guides/inference-2026-04-rerank.md) - [Rerank results](./guides/inference-2025-10-rerank.md) - [Rerank documents](./guides/inference-2025-04-rerank.md) - [Rerank results](./guides/inference-2025-01-rerank.md) — Rerank query results according to their relevance to a query. This endpoint uses Pinecone Inference. - [Upload file to assistant](./guides/files-2025-04-assistant-upload-file.md) - [cohere-rerank-3.5](./guides/more-models-cohere-rerank-3-5.md) — Rerank has improved dramatically in cases where the user is expressing explicitly or implicitly constraints on what they would like returned. - [Create an assistant](./guides/assistants-2025-04-assistant-create-assistant.md) - [Describe a file upload](./guides/files-2025-04-assistant-describe-file.md) - [Error handling](./guides/move-to-production-error-handling.md) — Handle Pinecone API errors with retry logic, exponential backoff, and best practices for 4xx client errors, 5xx server errors, and rate limit responses. - [Multitenancy](./guides/index-data-multitenancy.md) - [Design for multitenancy](./guides/index-data-design-for-multitenancy.md) — Design multitenancy in Pinecone by choosing between namespace-per-tenant isolation and metadata filtering, with their cost and performance tradeoffs. - [Implement multitenancy](./guides/index-data-implement-multitenancy.md) — Implement multitenancy in Pinecone with one namespace per tenant on a serverless index to isolate customer data for SaaS RAG or semantic search apps. - [cohere-rerank-4-fast](./guides/more-models-cohere-rerank-4-fast.md) — Cohere Rerank 4.0 Fast is Cohere's latest reranking model, providing high-quality relevance scoring across enterprise search workloads. - [Check assistant status](./guides/assistants-2025-04-assistant-describe-assistant.md) - [Delete an uploaded file](./guides/files-2025-04-assistant-delete-file.md) - [Monitor performance](./guides/move-to-production-monitoring.md) — Monitor Pinecone index performance metrics (query latency, throughput, and errors) in the Pinecone console or via Prometheus and Datadog. - [Pinecone Assistant pricing and limits](./guides/get-started-assistant-pricing-and-limits.md) — Understand Pinecone Assistant pricing for ingestion units, chat tokens, and storage, plus plan-based service limits for file uploads and knowledge size. - [e5-base-v2](./guides/more-models-e5-base-v2.md) — Use the e5-base-v2 embedding or reranking model with Pinecone: specs and index setup. Ideal model for good performance while keeping with open source and. - [CI/CD with Pinecone Local and GitHub Actions](./guides/move-to-production-automated-testing.md) — Build a GitHub Actions CI/CD workflow with Pinecone Local to run automated integration tests against an in-memory emulator without touching production. - [Errors](./guides/apis-errors.md) — Look up the HTTP status codes the Pinecone API returns, what each 2xx success and 4xx or 5xx error means, and where to handle them in production. - [List Files](./guides/files-2025-01-assistant-list-files.md) - [Manage organizations](./guides/admin-manage-organizations.md) - [Understanding organizations](./guides/admin-organizations-understanding-organizations.md) — Learn how Pinecone organizations group projects, share billing, and use organization roles to control member permissions and access to resources. - [Manage organization members](./guides/admin-organizations-manage-organization-members.md) — Add, invite, and manage members in your Pinecone organization, including assigning organization roles, changing permissions, and removing users. - [Manage service accounts at the organization-level](./guides/admin-organizations-manage-service-accounts.md) — Create and manage service accounts at the organization level in Pinecone for programmatic Admin API access, including client secrets and role assignment. - [Organizations overview](./guides/admin-assistant-organizations-overview.md) — Learn how Pinecone organizations group projects under shared billing, and how organization owners, members, and roles control access and permissions. - [Monitor usage and cost](./guides/admin-assistant-monitor-spend-and-usage.md) — Monitor Pinecone Assistant usage and cost, set monthly spend alerts, and track token usage across chat, context retrieval, and evaluation. - [Manage organization members](./guides/admin-assistant-manage-organization-members.md) — Invite new members to your Pinecone organization, change their organization roles, and remove users to control access across all projects. - [Manage organization-level service accounts](./guides/admin-assistant-manage-organization-service-accounts.md) — Create and manage organization-level Pinecone service accounts, retrieve access tokens, and grant programmatic access to the Admin API. - [Monitor assistants](./guides/get-started-assistant-monitor-assistants.md) — Track Pinecone Assistant performance in the console with time-series metrics for requests, error counts, chat and context latency, and file processing. - [Update an assistant](./guides/assistants-2025-04-assistant-update-assistant.md) - [e5-large-v2](./guides/more-models-e5-large-v2.md) — Use the e5-large-v2 embedding or reranking model with Pinecone: specs and index setup. Ideal model for high performance while keeping with open source. Works. - [Create and load private datasets](./guides/get-started-data-create-and-load-private-datasets.md) — Create custom Pinecone datasets with the pinecone-datasets library, define metadata schema, and upload to your own S3, GCS, or local storage bucket. - [Dedicated read nodes](./guides/index-data-dedicated-read-nodes.md) - [Dedicated read nodes overview](./guides/index-data-dedicated-read-nodes-overview.md) — Dedicated read nodes give a Pinecone index its own provisioned read hardware for predictable, low-latency performance at high query volumes. - [Dedicated read nodes concepts](./guides/index-data-dedicated-read-nodes-concepts.md) — Node types, shards, replicas, and index fullness are the building blocks of a Pinecone dedicated read nodes index. - [Create a dedicated read nodes index](./guides/index-data-dedicated-read-nodes-create.md) — Create a Pinecone dedicated read nodes index from scratch or from a backup of an existing index. - [Migrate to dedicated read nodes](./guides/index-data-dedicated-read-nodes-migrate.md) — Migrate an existing on-demand or pod-based Pinecone index to dedicated read nodes. - [Size and test a dedicated read nodes index](./guides/index-data-dedicated-read-nodes-size-and-test.md) — Calculate how many shards and replicas a Pinecone dedicated read nodes index needs, and load-test your workload to validate the configuration. - [Tune queries on dedicated read nodes](./guides/index-data-dedicated-read-nodes-tune-queries.md) — Tune scan_factor and max_candidates on a Pinecone dedicated read nodes index to trade recall for lower latency and higher throughput. - [Scale a dedicated read nodes index](./guides/index-data-dedicated-read-nodes-scale.md) — Scale a Pinecone dedicated read nodes index by adding replicas for query throughput and shards for storage capacity. - [Manage a dedicated read nodes index](./guides/index-data-dedicated-read-nodes-manage.md) — Add a hosted embedding model, monitor fullness, change node types, pause, or convert a Pinecone dedicated read nodes index back to on-demand. - [Delete an assistant](./guides/assistants-2025-04-assistant-delete-assistant.md) - [Upload file to assistant](./guides/files-2025-01-assistant-upload-file.md) - [gte-base](./guides/more-models-gte-base.md) — Use the gte-base embedding or reranking model with Pinecone: specs and index setup. Ideal model for good performance while keeping with open source and. - [Contexts](./guides/data-plane-contexts.md) - [List contexts (newest first, with stats)](./guides/data-plane-contexts-list-contexts-newest-first-with-stats.md) — Every context in the active project, newest first, each with its aggregate task counters. - [Create a context](./guides/data-plane-contexts-create-a-context.md) — Created empty, and not queryable until you import sources and curate them — curate is explicit. Optionally seed a manifest. A work context is the exception: queryable from day zero, built from traces of work rather than documents. - [Get a context](./guides/data-plane-contexts-get-a-context.md) — One context and its derived lifecycle flags. - [Update a context](./guides/data-plane-contexts-update-a-context.md) — All fields optional; an absent one is left untouched. An empty string clears description/guide, and {} clears the manifest back to defaults. - [Delete a context (and its Pinecone indexes)](./guides/data-plane-contexts-delete-a-context-and-its-pinecone-indexes.md) — Delete the context, its sources, its curated knowledge, and its Pinecone indexes. Not reversible. - [Per-context task statistics](./guides/data-plane-contexts-per-context-task-statistics.md) — Aggregate counters over every task this context has run. The project-wide equivalent is GET /stats. - [Trigger an on-demand self-tuning optimize](./guides/data-plane-contexts-trigger-an-on-demand-self-tuning-optimize.md) — Tunes the manifest from real query traffic, then chains a forced re-curate. Every field of the required body is optional, so {} is valid — and a no-op without candidate_queries. The context must be curated, and only one optimize runs at a time. - [Run the Design-flow explore agent (propose a manifest)](./guides/data-plane-contexts-run-the-design-flow-explore-agent-propose-a-manifest.md) — Inspects the uploaded source and proposes manifest-template matches in the task's output (see ExploreOutput). Persists nothing — review the proposal, then apply it with a manifest update and a forced curate. Body is optional. - [Estimate the token + time cost of curating the in-progress manifest](./guides/data-plane-contexts-estimate-the-token-time-cost-of-curating-the-in-progress-manifest.md) — Estimates the token and time cost of curating the sources under the manifest in the request body, reported as the task's output (see ProfileEstimateOutput). Persists nothing. Body is optional. - [Describe a file upload](./guides/files-2025-01-assistant-describe-file.md) - [List assistants](./guides/assistants-2025-01-assistant-list-assistants.md) - [Models](./guides/inference-models.md) - [List available models](./guides/inference-2026-04-list-models.md) - [Describe a model](./guides/inference-2026-04-describe-model.md) - [List available models](./guides/inference-2025-10-list-models.md) - [Describe a model](./guides/inference-2025-10-describe-model.md) - [List available models](./guides/inference-2025-04-list-models.md) - [Describe a model](./guides/inference-2025-04-describe-model.md) - [Use public Pinecone datasets](./guides/get-started-data-use-public-pinecone-datasets.md) — Browse Pinecone's catalog of public benchmark datasets like ANN, MSMARCO, and Quora, then load and upsert them with the pinecone-datasets Python library. - [gte-large](./guides/more-models-gte-large.md) — Use the gte-large embedding or reranking model with Pinecone: specs and index setup. Larger GTE variant for more high quality embeddings. Ideal model for. - [Create an assistant](./guides/assistants-2025-01-assistant-create-assistant.md) - [Delete an uploaded file](./guides/files-2025-01-assistant-delete-file.md) - [Use sample datasets](./guides/get-started-data-use-sample-datasets.md) — Load a pre-built movies sample dataset from the Pinecone console to quickly test indexing, similarity search, and quickstart workflows without uploading your own data. - [instructor-large](./guides/more-models-instructor-large.md) — Use the instructor-large embedding or reranking model with Pinecone: specs and index setup. An instruction-finetuned text embedding model that can generate. - [Check assistant status](./guides/assistants-2025-01-assistant-describe-assistant.md) - [instructor-xl](./guides/more-models-instructor-xl.md) — Use the instructor-xl embedding or reranking model with Pinecone: specs and index setup. An instruction-finetuned text embedding model that can generate text. - [Update an assistant](./guides/assistants-2025-01-assistant-update-assistant.md) - [jina-clip-v2](./guides/more-models-jina-clip-v2.md) — Use the jina-clip-v2 embedding or reranking model with Pinecone: specs and index setup. Jina CLIP v2 is a state-of-the-art multilingual and multimodal. - [Delete an assistant](./guides/assistants-2025-01-assistant-delete-assistant.md) - [jina-embeddings-v2-base-en](./guides/more-models-jina-embeddings-v2-base-en.md) — Use the jina-embeddings-v2-base-en embedding or reranking model with Pinecone: specs and index setup. Ideal for text embeddings where short queries are. - [jina-embeddings-v3](./guides/more-models-jina-embeddings-v3.md) — Jina embeddings v3 on Pinecone: multilingual text embeddings with 1024/512 dims, 8192-token context, task adapters, and Matryoshka support. - [Manage projects](./guides/admin-manage-projects.md) - [Understanding projects](./guides/admin-projects-understanding-projects.md) — Learn how Pinecone projects organize indexes, cloud environments, API keys, and members, including project roles and per-role permission summaries. - [Create a project](./guides/admin-projects-create-a-project.md) — Create a new Pinecone project in your organization using the console or Admin API, including project name, tags, and customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK). - [Manage projects](./guides/admin-projects-manage-projects.md) — View project details, rename projects, and delete projects in your Pinecone organization using the console or Admin API with owner permissions. - [Manage project members](./guides/admin-projects-manage-project-members.md) — Add, remove, and update Pinecone project members using role-based access control (RBAC) to manage permissions and project owner roles. - [Manage API keys](./guides/admin-projects-manage-api-keys.md) — Create, view, update, and delete Pinecone API keys with custom permissions per project, including scoped roles and data plane access controls. - [Manage service accounts at the project-level](./guides/admin-projects-manage-service-accounts.md) — Add service accounts to a Pinecone project and assign project roles to enable programmatic API access for automated workflows and CI pipelines. - [Projects overview](./guides/admin-assistant-projects-overview.md) — Understand how Pinecone projects contain assistants, indexes, and users, and review project owner and project user roles and their permissions. - [Create a project](./guides/admin-assistant-create-a-project.md) — Create a new Pinecone project in the console or through the Admin API, add tags, and optionally enable a customer-managed encryption key (CMEK). - [Manage projects](./guides/admin-assistant-manage-projects.md) — View project details, rename projects, add project tags, and delete Pinecone projects using the console or the Admin API with an access token. - [Manage project members](./guides/admin-assistant-manage-project-members.md) — Add users to a Pinecone project, assign project owner or user roles, edit permissions, and remove members to control access to indexes and API keys. - [Manage API keys](./guides/admin-assistant-manage-api-keys.md) — Create, view, update, and delete Pinecone API keys for a project, plus assign custom permission roles to control data plane and control plane access. - [Manage service accounts at the project-level](./guides/admin-assistant-manage-project-service-accounts.md) — Add and manage project-level service accounts in Pinecone Assistant to enable programmatic Admin API access, roles, and permissions. - [jina-embeddings-v4](./guides/more-models-jina-embeddings-v4.md) — Jina embeddings v4 on Pinecone: multimodal text and image embeddings with 32k tokens, flexible 128-2048 dims, and multi-vector retrieval. - [Generate vectors](./guides/inference-2024-10-generate-embeddings.md) - [llama-text-embed-v2](./guides/more-models-llama-text-embed-v2.md) — Developed by NVIDIA Research, it's built on the Llama 3.2 1B architecture and optimized for high retrieval quality with low-latency inference. - [Adopt the Documents API](./guides/index-data-adopt-the-documents-api.md) — Learn what changes in API version 2026-07, whether your existing code is affected, and how to move to schema-based indexes. - [Marengo-retrieval-2.6](./guides/more-models-marengo-retrieval-2-6.md) — Use the Marengo-retrieval-2.6 embedding or reranking model with Pinecone: specs and index setup. The video understanding engine generates embeddings for all. - [Projects](./guides/admin-2-projects.md) - [List projects](./guides/admin-2-2026-07-admin-projects-list-projects.md) - [Create a new project](./guides/admin-2-2026-07-admin-projects-create-a-new-project.md) - [Get project details](./guides/admin-2-2026-07-admin-projects-get-project-details.md) - [Delete a project](./guides/admin-2-2026-07-admin-projects-delete-a-project.md) - [Update a project](./guides/admin-2-2026-07-admin-projects-update-a-project.md) - [Create a new project](./guides/admin-2-2026-04-admin-assistant-create-project.md) - [List projects](./guides/admin-2-2026-04-admin-assistant-list-projects.md) - [Get project details](./guides/admin-2-2026-04-admin-assistant-fetch-project.md) - [Update a project](./guides/admin-2-2026-04-admin-assistant-update-project.md) - [Delete a project](./guides/admin-2-2026-04-admin-assistant-delete-project.md) - [Create a new project](./guides/admin-2-2025-10-admin-assistant-create-project.md) - [List projects](./guides/admin-2-2025-10-admin-assistant-list-projects.md) - [Get project details](./guides/admin-2-2025-10-admin-assistant-fetch-project.md) - [Update a project](./guides/admin-2-2025-10-admin-assistant-update-project.md) - [Delete a project](./guides/admin-2-2025-10-admin-assistant-delete-project.md) - [Create a new project](./guides/admin-2-2025-04-admin-assistant-create-project.md) - [List projects](./guides/admin-2-2025-04-admin-assistant-list-projects.md) - [Get project details](./guides/admin-2-2025-04-admin-assistant-fetch-project.md) - [Update a project](./guides/admin-2-2025-04-admin-assistant-update-project.md) - [Delete a project](./guides/admin-2-2025-04-admin-assistant-delete-project.md) - [Rerank results](./guides/inference-2024-10-rerank.md) — Rerank query results according to their relevance to a query. This endpoint uses Pinecone Inference. - [Search overview](./guides/index-data-search-search-overview.md) — Compare Pinecone search types and choose the right retrieval approach: full-text (BM25), semantic (dense vector), sparse-vector, and hybrid. - [Full-text search overview](./guides/index-data-search-full-text-search.md) — Upsert and search typed JSON documents in Pinecone with BM25 scoring, Lucene query syntax, dense and sparse vector ranking, and metadata filters. - [Full-text search query syntax](./guides/index-data-search-full-text-search-query-syntax.md) — Write Pinecone full-text search queries with Lucene query_string syntax, including boolean, phrase, prefix, boosting, and fuzzy operators. - [Full-text search text processing](./guides/index-data-search-full-text-search-text-processing.md) — Control how Pinecone full-text search tokenizes and analyzes text, including tokens and analyzers, stemming, language options, and substring (n-gram) matching. - [mistral-embed](./guides/more-models-mistral-embed.md) — Use the mistral-embed embedding or reranking model with Pinecone: specs and index setup. High performance embedding model from Mistral AI, with a context. - [Frameworks](./guides/connect-an-integration-frameworks.md) - [AI Engine](./guides/connect-an-integration-ai-engine.md) — Use the AI Engine WordPress plugin with Pinecone to power chatbots, semantic search, and RAG over site content directly from your WordPress dashboard. - [Amazon Bedrock](./guides/connect-an-integration-amazon-bedrock.md) — Select Pinecone as a Knowledge Base for Amazon Bedrock to ground LLMs with your enterprise data and build accurate, low-latency RAG applications on AWS. - [Amazon SageMaker](./guides/connect-an-integration-amazon-sagemaker.md) — Combine Amazon SageMaker with Pinecone to host LLMs and embedding models for scalable retrieval augmented generation and vector search workloads. - [Cloudera AI](./guides/connect-an-integration-cloudera.md) — Integrate Cloudera AI with Pinecone to run distributed Spark and Python embedding pipelines and power scalable RAG and vector search on enterprise data. - [Context Data](./guides/connect-an-integration-context-data.md) — Use Context Data with Pinecone to build no-code flows from Postgres, S3, Salesforce, and more, embedding data and querying indexes in Query Studio. - [Genkit](./guides/connect-an-integration-genkit.md) — Use the Genkit Pinecone plugin with Firebase to build AI features with type-safe indexers, embedders, and retrievers for RAG and semantic search apps. - [Haystack](./guides/connect-an-integration-haystack.md) — Use Deepset Haystack's PineconeDocumentStore to build production NLP pipelines that index, embed, and query documents for question answering and RAG. - [Instill AI](./guides/connect-an-integration-instill.md) — Wire Pinecone into Instill AI no-code pipelines to upsert, query, and power RAG agents, chatbots, and knowledge bases with vector similarity. - [LangChain](./guides/connect-an-integration-langchain.md) — Build LangChain RAG apps, agents, and chatbots on Pinecone: manage embeddings, vector stores, retrievers, and chains for LLM-powered search. - [LlamaIndex](./guides/connect-an-integration-llamaindex.md) — Build LlamaIndex RAG pipelines on Pinecone: ingest documents, structure private data, and run semantic search and question-answering over LLMs. - [n8n](./guides/connect-an-integration-n8n.md) — Automate Pinecone vector store and Assistant workflows in n8n: build RAG pipelines, semantic search, and no-code AI automations with 400+ apps. - [Nuclia](./guides/connect-an-integration-nuclia.md) — Power Nuclia RAG-as-a-Service with Pinecone: index documents, customize retrieval and chunking strategies, and deploy LLM knowledge boxes at scale. - [OctoAI](./guides/connect-an-integration-octoai.md) — Combine OctoAI's GTE Large embeddings and open-source LLMs with Pinecone and Canopy for cost-effective RAG, semantic search, and generative AI apps. - [VoltAgent](./guides/connect-an-integration-voltagent.md) — Build TypeScript AI agents with VoltAgent and Pinecone: automatic embeddings, semantic search, metadata filtering, and observable RAG in production. - [Manifest](./guides/data-plane-manifest.md) - [Get the context's manifest](./guides/data-plane-manifest-get-the-contexts-manifest.md) — The context's pinned manifest document. A context that pins nothing returns null — the runtime fills defaults. Writes go through the manifest field on PUT /contexts/{slug}. - [List the built-in manifest templates](./guides/data-plane-manifest-list-the-built-in-manifest-templates.md) — The templates a new context can be seeded from. - [Semantic search](./guides/index-data-search-semantic-search.md) — Search a Pinecone index of dense vectors to find semantically similar records using text or vector queries, top_k results, and nearest neighbor lookup. - [Hybrid search overview](./guides/index-data-search-hybrid-search.md) — Combine keyword and semantic retrieval in Pinecone with a text-match filter on a dense search, or by fusing separate searches with reciprocal rank fusion. - [Run hybrid search on a single index](./guides/index-data-search-hybrid-search-single-index.md) — Run hybrid search on one Pinecone index storing a dense and a sparse vector per record, weighting the two signals client-side with an alpha value. - [Run hybrid search on separate indexes](./guides/index-data-search-hybrid-search-separate-indexes.md) — Store dense and sparse vectors in two Pinecone indexes linked by ID, query each, and merge the results client-side with reciprocal rank fusion. - [Reciprocal rank fusion](./guides/index-data-search-reciprocal-rank-fusion.md) — Combine results from separate Pinecone searches into a single ranking with reciprocal rank fusion (RRF), a client-side method that fuses rankings, not scores. - [multilingual-e5-large](./guides/more-models-multilingual-e5-large.md) — Use the multilingual-e5-large embedding or reranking model with Pinecone: specs and index setup. Ideal multilingual model for high performance while keeping. - [Pinecone model gallery](./guides/more-models-overview.md) — Browse Pinecone's hosted embedding and reranking model gallery with details on dimensions, sequence length, pricing, and supported tasks. - [pinecone-rerank-v0](./guides/more-models-pinecone-rerank-v0.md) — Pinecone rerank v0 on Pinecone Inference: reranking model for RAG relevance scoring with 512-token context and query-document pair scores. - [Curation](./guides/data-plane-curation.md) - [Get the curation ledger](./guides/data-plane-curation-get-the-curation-ledger.md) — What the last curate recorded: the per-source hash and timestamp map, artifact edges, corpus groups, the live version pin, delete tombstones, artifact-reclaim intents, and the pointer and glossary resume cursors. Chunk ids are tracked too but not served — an internal retrieval unit. - [Build or rebuild the context's index from its sources](./guides/data-plane-curation-build-or-rebuild-the-contexts-index-from-its-sources.md) — Curate the staged sources under the active manifest. Required before querying — there is no auto-curate. Body is optional; force: true rebuilds fully, which is what a manifest edit needs. Search contexts only: a work context builds via work/groom. - [Drop named sources from the index + ledger](./guides/data-plane-curation-drop-named-sources-from-the-index-ledger.md) — Drop named sources from the index and the curation ledger without re-reading the rest of the corpus. - [pinecone-sparse-english-v0](./guides/more-models-pinecone-sparse-english-v0.md) — Use the pinecone-sparse-english-v0 embedding or reranking model with Pinecone: specs and index setup. Built on the innovations of the DeepImpact. - [rerank-2-lite](./guides/more-models-rerank-2-lite.md) — Voyage AI rerank-2-lite on Pinecone: multilingual reranker balancing latency and quality with 8000-token context for RAG search results. - [rerank-2](./guides/more-models-rerank-2.md) — Voyage AI rerank-2 on Pinecone: quality-focused multilingual reranker with 16000-token context for RAG relevance scoring and search reorder. - [rerank-english-v2](./guides/more-models-rerank-english-v2.md) — Use the rerank-english-v2 embedding or reranking model with Pinecone: specs and index setup. Good reranking model, consumes both a query and a list of. - [Source Files](./guides/data-plane-source-files.md) - [Import source documents from a project connector](./guides/data-plane-source-files-import-source-documents-from-a-project-connector.md) — Pull source documents from a linked project connector (Box, ...) into the context. Supply either folder or files. Stages the source only — curate explicitly before querying. - [Upload a source file or archive](./guides/data-plane-source-files-upload-a-source-file-or-archive.md) — One file per request, max 2 GiB; archives (.zip, .tar, .tar.gz, .tgz) are expanded by the import runtime. Stages the source without indexing it — curate explicitly before querying. - [List the source file tree (root)](./guides/data-plane-source-files-list-the-source-file-tree-root.md) — The root of the source tree — what has been staged but not necessarily curated. - [Source file/dir/size counts](./guides/data-plane-source-files-source-filedirsize-counts.md) — Aggregate counts. Where source limits apply, five more fields carry the caps and usage against them (max_files_per_context, max_bytes_per_context, max_bytes_per_file, used_files, used_bytes); they are absent otherwise. - [Flat manifest of source files (path, size, last_modified)](./guides/data-plane-source-files-flat-manifest-of-source-files-path-size-last-modified.md) — Flat source-object inventory. Excludes the inbox/ staging directory. - [List the source file tree under a path](./guides/data-plane-source-files-list-the-source-file-tree-under-a-path.md) — One directory of the source tree. - [Read a source file (raw bytes)](./guides/data-plane-source-files-read-a-source-file-raw-bytes.md) — The raw bytes of one staged source file. - [Delete a source file](./guides/data-plane-source-files-delete-a-source-file.md) — Remove one file from the source tree. Its index entries survive until the next curate. - [text-embedding-3-large](./guides/more-models-text-embedding-3-large.md) — Use the text-embedding-3-large embedding or reranking model with Pinecone: specs and index setup. Most powerful OpenAI embedding model, with a larger. - [Sparse-vector search](./guides/index-data-search-lexical-search.md) — Run sparse-vector search in Pinecone with custom sparse encoders like pinecone-sparse-english-v0 for token-weighted keyword retrieval. - [text-embedding-3-small](./guides/more-models-text-embedding-3-small.md) — Use the text-embedding-3-small embedding or reranking model with Pinecone: specs and index setup. Most cost effective OpenAI embedding model, great for. - [Filter by metadata](./guides/index-data-search-filter-by-metadata.md) — Narrow Pinecone search results by adding metadata filter expressions to your query, using operators like $eq, $in, $gt, and $and for precise retrieval. - [text-embedding-ada-002](./guides/more-models-text-embedding-ada-002.md) — Use the text-embedding-ada-002 embedding or reranking model with Pinecone: specs and index setup. Legacy embedding model from OpenAI, great for general. - [Rerank results](./guides/index-data-search-rerank-results.md) — Improve retrieval quality by reranking initial search results with a hosted or external model to surface the most relevant matches for RAG. - [voyage-01](./guides/more-models-voyage-01.md) — Use the voyage-01 embedding or reranking model with Pinecone: specs and index setup. The highest-quality text embedding model from the first generation of. - [voyage-2](./guides/more-models-voyage-02.md) — Use the voyage-2 embedding or reranking model with Pinecone: specs and index setup. The base-size text embedding model from the second generation of Voyage. - [voyage-3-large](./guides/more-models-voyage-3-large.md) — Voyage AI voyage-3-large on Pinecone: top-quality multilingual text embeddings with 32k context and flexible 256/512/1024/2048 dimensions. - [voyage-3-lite](./guides/more-models-voyage-3-lite.md) — Voyage AI voyage-3-lite on Pinecone: cost- and latency-optimized 512-dim text embeddings with 32k-token context for high-throughput search. - [voyage-3](./guides/more-models-voyage-3.md) — Voyage AI voyage-3 on Pinecone: general-purpose multilingual text embeddings with 1024 dimensions and 32k-token context for retrieval RAG. - [Infrastructure](./guides/connect-an-integration-infrastructure.md) - [AWS Marketplace](./guides/connect-an-integration-aws-marketplace.md) — Subscribe to Pinecone through AWS Marketplace for centralized procurement, pay-as-you-go billing, and consolidated invoicing on your AWS account. - [GitHub Copilot](./guides/connect-an-integration-github-copilot.md) — Install the Pinecone GitHub Copilot Extension to query your indexes, get coding assistance for the Pinecone API, and debug RAG apps from your editor. - [Google Cloud Marketplace](./guides/connect-an-integration-google-cloud-marketplace.md) — Subscribe to Pinecone through Google Cloud Marketplace for centralized procurement, pay-as-you-go billing, and consolidated GCP invoicing. - [Microsoft Marketplace](./guides/connect-an-integration-microsoft-marketplace.md) — Buy and manage Pinecone through Microsoft Marketplace with pay-as-you-go billing, centralized SaaS procurement, and simplified Azure licensing. - [Pulumi](./guides/connect-an-integration-pulumi.md) — Provision Pinecone indexes and collections as code with Pulumi in Python, TypeScript, Go, or C# for infrastructure-as-code vector database DevOps. - [Terraform](./guides/connect-an-integration-terraform.md) — Manage Pinecone indexes, collections, API keys, and projects with the Terraform provider for repeatable infrastructure-as-code and DevOps workflows. - [Vercel](./guides/connect-an-integration-vercel.md) — Deploy AI apps on Vercel with Pinecone as long-term memory: one-click setup, scalable vector search, and RAG for Next.js and edge-deployed frontends. - [Zapier](./guides/connect-an-integration-zapier.md) — Automate Pinecone with Zapier: trigger workflows on index changes, upsert data from spreadsheets, and connect vector search to 6,000+ no-code apps. - [voyage-code-2](./guides/more-models-voyage-code-2.md) — Voyage AI voyage-code-2 on Pinecone: 1536-dim code embeddings with 16k-token context, optimized for source code search and code retrieval. - [Knowledge](./guides/data-plane-knowledge.md) - [List curated knowledge (root)](./guides/data-plane-knowledge-list-curated-knowledge-root.md) — The root of the curated knowledge tree — chunks and artifacts the last curate wrote. - [Knowledge file/dir/size counts](./guides/data-plane-knowledge-knowledge-filedirsize-counts.md) — File, directory, and byte counts over the curated knowledge tree. - [List curated knowledge under a path](./guides/data-plane-knowledge-list-curated-knowledge-under-a-path.md) — One directory of the curated knowledge tree. - [Read a curated knowledge file (raw bytes)](./guides/data-plane-knowledge-read-a-curated-knowledge-file-raw-bytes.md) — The raw bytes of one curated knowledge file. - [voyage-code-3](./guides/more-models-voyage-code-3.md) — Voyage AI voyage-code-3 on Pinecone: code embeddings with 32k context and flexible 256/512/1024/2048 dims for source code search and RAG. - [voyage-finance-2](./guides/more-models-voyage-finance-2.md) — Voyage AI voyage-finance-2 on Pinecone: 1024-dim finance-domain embeddings with 32k-token context for financial RAG and document retrieval. - [voyage-large-2](./guides/more-models-voyage-large-2.md) — Use the voyage-large-2 embedding or reranking model with Pinecone: specs and index setup. The highest-quality text embedding model from the second generation. - [Organizations](./guides/admin-2-organizations.md) - [List organizations](./guides/admin-2-2026-07-admin-organizations-list-organizations.md) — List all organizations associated with an account. - [Get organization details](./guides/admin-2-2026-07-admin-organizations-get-organization-details.md) — Get an organization's details. - [Delete an organization](./guides/admin-2-2026-07-admin-organizations-delete-an-organization.md) — Delete an organization and all its configuration; delete all its projects first. - [Update an organization](./guides/admin-2-2026-07-admin-organizations-update-an-organization.md) — Update an organization's name. - [voyage-law-2](./guides/more-models-voyage-law-2.md) — Voyage AI voyage-law-2 on Pinecone: 1024-dim legal-domain embeddings with 16k-token context for legal document retrieval and contract RAG. - [voyage-lite-02-instruct](./guides/more-models-voyage-lite-02-instruct.md) — Use the voyage-lite-02-instruct embedding or reranking model with Pinecone: specs and index setup. The base-size text embedding model from the second. - [Query](./guides/data-plane-query.md) - [Run one KnowQL query turn](./guides/data-plane-query-run-one-knowql-query-turn.md) — Send ask and, on a new session, a scope of 1–10 contexts; continue an existing one with - [Fetch one query (turn)](./guides/data-plane-query-fetch-one-query-turn.md) — One turn, including its steps, citations, and usage. This is what a background run is polled with. - [Cancel an in-progress query turn](./guides/data-plane-query-cancel-an-in-progress-query-turn.md) — Idempotent — an already-terminal query is returned unchanged. On success the turn's status becomes cancelled. - [Fetch the recorded trace for a query turn](./guides/data-plane-query-fetch-the-recorded-trace-for-a-query-turn.md) — The per-turn debug trace (steps, tool calls, strategy, cost, rollup). Trace persistence is unconditional — every turn lands a trace blob — so this is available once the turn is terminal. - [Stream a query turn's events (SSE)](./guides/data-plane-query-stream-a-query-turns-events-sse.md) — The turn's events as they land — the same type-named events POST /query emits with stream: true, as a standalone resumable subscription. Reconnect with Last-Event-ID to replay from where the stream dropped. - [Record thumbs-up/down feedback on a query turn](./guides/data-plane-query-record-thumbs-updown-feedback-on-a-query-turn.md) — Record a thumbs-up or thumbs-down on a turn. The rating is returned on the turn thereafter. - [List the selectable query models](./guides/data-plane-query-list-the-selectable-query-models.md) — What the model field on POST /query draws from: the default, every catalog entry, the tier → model-id map, per-phase defaults, and the curate-capable ids. Only entries with available: true are selectable; the rest are rejected with 400. - [List project-wide query sessions (newest first)](./guides/data-plane-query-list-project-wide-query-sessions-newest-first.md) — Every conversation thread in the project, newest first. - [Get a session with its queries (conversation order)](./guides/data-plane-query-get-a-session-with-its-queries-conversation-order.md) — One session with its turns in conversation order. - [Delete a session and its queries](./guides/data-plane-query-delete-a-session-and-its-queries.md) — Delete a session and every turn belonging to it. - [voyage-multimodal-3](./guides/more-models-voyage-multimodal-3.md) — Voyage AI voyage-multimodal-3 on Pinecone: 1024-dim embeddings for interleaved text and images like PDFs, slides, tables, and screenshots. - [Models](./guides/connect-an-integration-models.md) - [Anyscale](./guides/connect-an-integration-anyscale.md) — Pair Anyscale Endpoints with Canopy and Pinecone to build RAG apps on managed open-source LLMs, with vector search and semantic retrieval out of the box. - [Cohere](./guides/connect-an-integration-cohere.md) — Connect Pinecone and Cohere to ship vector search and RAG applications: generate Cohere embeddings, index them in Pinecone, and rerank results. - [Voyage AI](./guides/connect-an-integration-voyage.md) — Generate top-ranked Voyage AI embeddings and rerankers, then index them in Pinecone for high-accuracy RAG, semantic search, and code retrieval apps. - [Hugging Face Inference Endpoints](./guides/connect-an-integration-hugging-face-inference-endpoints.md) — Generate embeddings with Hugging Face Inference Endpoints and index them in Pinecone for semantic search, RAG, and transformer model deployment. - [Jina AI](./guides/connect-an-integration-jina.md) — Use Jina AI long-context embeddings with Pinecone for multilingual semantic search, RAG chatbots, and domain-specific retrieval up to 8K tokens. - [OpenAI](./guides/connect-an-integration-openai.md) — Pair OpenAI embeddings and completion models with Pinecone for semantic search, long-term memory, RAG, and context-aware LLM question-answering. - [Twelve Labs](./guides/connect-an-integration-twelve-labs.md) — Store Twelve Labs multimodal video embeddings in Pinecone to power video search, recommendations, and content moderation with fast similarity retrieval. - [Service accounts](./guides/admin-2-service-accounts.md) - [List service accounts](./guides/admin-2-2026-07-admin-service-accounts-list-service-accounts.md) — List service accounts in the caller's organization. - [Create a service account](./guides/admin-2-2026-07-admin-service-accounts-create-a-service-account.md) — Create a service account with optional initial role bindings; the client secret is returned only once. - [Get service account details](./guides/admin-2-2026-07-admin-service-accounts-get-service-account-details.md) — Get a service account by ID; the client secret is returned only from create and rotate-secret requests. - [Delete a service account](./guides/admin-2-2026-07-admin-service-accounts-delete-a-service-account.md) — Delete a service account and its role bindings; tokens it minted are revoked within a few seconds. - [Update a service account](./guides/admin-2-2026-07-admin-service-accounts-update-a-service-account.md) — Update a service account's name; role bindings are managed through the role-binding endpoints. - [Rotate a service account's OAuth client secret](./guides/admin-2-2026-07-admin-service-accounts-rotate-a-service-accounts-oauth-client-secret.md) — Rotate a service account's OAuth client secret; the previous secret and its tokens are revoked within seconds and the new secret is returned only once. - [Create a service account](./guides/admin-2-2026-04-admin-create-service-account.md) — Create a service account with optional initial role bindings; the client secret is returned only once. - [List service accounts](./guides/admin-2-2026-04-admin-list-service-accounts.md) — List service accounts in the caller's organization. - [Get service account details](./guides/admin-2-2026-04-admin-fetch-service-account.md) — Get a service account by ID; the client secret is returned only from create and rotate-secret requests. - [Update a service account](./guides/admin-2-2026-04-admin-update-service-account.md) — Update a service account's name; role bindings are managed through the role-binding endpoints. - [Delete a service account](./guides/admin-2-2026-04-admin-delete-service-account.md) — Delete a service account and its role bindings; tokens it minted are revoked within a few seconds. - [Rotate a service account's OAuth client secret](./guides/admin-2-2026-04-admin-rotate-service-account-secret.md) — Rotate a service account's OAuth client secret; the previous secret and its tokens are revoked within seconds and the new secret is returned only once. - [Create an access token](./guides/admin-2-2026-04-admin-assistant-get-token.md) - [Create an access token](./guides/admin-2-2025-10-admin-get-token.md) - [Create an access token](./guides/admin-2-2025-10-admin-assistant-get-token.md) - [Get an access token](./guides/admin-2-2025-04-admin-get-token.md) - [Get an access token](./guides/admin-2-2025-04-admin-assistant-get-token.md) - [Namespaces](./guides/database-namespaces.md) - [List namespaces](./guides/database-2026-07-data-plane-listnamespaces.md) - [Create a namespace](./guides/database-2026-07-data-plane-createnamespace.md) - [Describe a namespace](./guides/database-2026-07-data-plane-describenamespace.md) - [Delete a namespace](./guides/database-2026-07-data-plane-deletenamespace.md) - [List namespaces](./guides/database-2026-04-data-plane-listnamespaces.md) - [Create a namespace](./guides/database-2026-04-data-plane-createnamespace.md) - [Describe a namespace](./guides/database-2026-04-data-plane-describenamespace.md) - [Delete a namespace](./guides/database-2026-04-data-plane-deletenamespace.md) - [List namespaces](./guides/database-2025-10-data-plane-listnamespaces.md) - [Create a namespace](./guides/database-2025-10-data-plane-createnamespace.md) - [Describe a namespace](./guides/database-2025-10-data-plane-describenamespace.md) - [Delete a namespace](./guides/database-2025-10-data-plane-deletenamespace.md) - [List namespaces](./guides/database-2025-04-data-plane-listnamespaces.md) - [Describe a namespace](./guides/database-2025-04-data-plane-describenamespace.md) - [Delete a namespace](./guides/database-2025-04-data-plane-deletenamespace.md) - [Observability](./guides/connect-an-integration-observability.md) - [Datadog](./guides/connect-an-integration-datadog.md) — Monitor Pinecone with the Datadog integration to track request latency, index fullness, and usage trends, and alert on anomalies in vector workloads. - [Langtrace](./guides/connect-an-integration-langtrace.md) — Trace Pinecone API calls with Langtrace's OpenTelemetry SDK to debug RAG pipelines, monitor vector DB latency, and ship LLM observability. - [New Relic](./guides/connect-an-integration-new-relic.md) — Monitor Pinecone with New Relic's Prometheus quickstart: dashboards, alerts, and AI observability for vector database latency and RAG performance. - [Traceloop](./guides/connect-an-integration-traceloop.md) — Instrument Pinecone with Traceloop's OpenLLMetry SDK to emit OpenTelemetry traces and metrics for LLM observability in Datadog, Grafana, and more. - [TruLens](./guides/connect-an-integration-trulens.md) — Evaluate and track Pinecone RAG apps with TruLens: measure grounding, relevance, and hallucinations to iterate on vector search configurations fast. - [Tasks](./guides/data-plane-tasks.md) - [List tasks (project-wide, paginated)](./guides/data-plane-tasks-list-tasks-project-wide-paginated.md) — Task records across the project, newest first. Filter by workflow, state, or context, and page with limit plus page or offset. - [Get a task (with steps)](./guides/data-plane-tasks-get-a-task-with-steps.md) — Unlike the listing, this carries the task's steps — every one by default, or the newest N with steps_limit, where steps_total reports the true count. - [Cancel/terminate a task](./guides/data-plane-tasks-cancelterminate-a-task.md) — Body is optional. Max body 1 MiB. - [Task Files](./guides/data-plane-task-files.md) - [Read a task file (raw bytes)](./guides/data-plane-task-files-read-a-task-file-raw-bytes.md) — Serves a task's files while it runs and after it finishes. This is how a finished pack's .context.zip is downloaded. - [Stat a task file](./guides/data-plane-task-files-stat-a-task-file.md) — Stat one file in the task container without reading its bytes. - [List a task's files under a path](./guides/data-plane-task-files-list-a-tasks-files-under-a-path.md) — One directory inside the task's working directory. - [List a task's working-directory files](./guides/data-plane-task-files-list-a-tasks-working-directory-files.md) — The root of the task's working directory. - [Delete a task file](./guides/data-plane-task-files-delete-a-task-file.md) — Delete one file from a running task container. - [HoneyHive](./guides/connect-an-integration-honeyhive.md) — Use HoneyHive with Pinecone to capture OpenTelemetry traces of SDK calls and visualize spans for observability and evaluation of RAG pipelines. - [Users](./guides/admin-2-users.md) - [List users in the organization](./guides/admin-2-2026-07-admin-users-list-users-in-the-organization.md) — List users in the caller's organization, optionally filtered by email address. - [Get user details](./guides/admin-2-2026-07-admin-users-get-user-details.md) — Get a user in the caller's organization by ID. - [Remove a user from the organization](./guides/admin-2-2026-07-admin-users-remove-a-user-from-the-organization.md) — Remove a user from the organization and revoke their role bindings; their Pinecone account is not deleted. - [List users in the organization](./guides/admin-2-2026-04-admin-list-users.md) — List users in the caller's organization, optionally filtered by email address. - [Get user details](./guides/admin-2-2026-04-admin-fetch-user.md) — Get a user in the caller's organization by ID. - [Remove a user from the organization](./guides/admin-2-2026-04-admin-delete-user.md) — Remove a user from the organization and revoke their role bindings; their Pinecone account is not deleted. - [Vectors](./guides/database-vectors.md) - [Search with a vector](./guides/database-2026-07-data-plane-query.md) - [Search with text](./guides/database-2026-07-data-plane-search-records.md) - [Upsert records](./guides/database-2026-07-data-plane-upsert.md) — Upsert records into a namespace. If a new value is upserted for an existing record ID, it will overwrite the previous value. - [Upsert text](./guides/database-2026-07-data-plane-upsert-records.md) - [Fetch records](./guides/database-2026-07-data-plane-fetch.md) — Look up and return records by ID from a single namespace. The returned records include the vector data and/or metadata. - [Fetch records by metadata](./guides/database-2026-07-data-plane-fetch-by-metadata.md) — Look up and return records by metadata from a single namespace. The returned records include the vector data and metadata. - [Update a record](./guides/database-2026-07-data-plane-update.md) — Update records by ID or by metadata in a namespace. Updating by ID changes the vector and/or metadata of a single record. Updating by metadata changes metadata across multiple records using a metadata filter. - [Delete records](./guides/database-2026-07-data-plane-delete.md) — Delete records by id or by metadata from a single namespace. - [List record IDs](./guides/database-2026-07-data-plane-list.md) — List the IDs of records in a single namespace of a serverless index. An optional prefix can be passed to limit the results to IDs with a common prefix. - [Search with a vector](./guides/database-2026-04-data-plane-query.md) - [Search with text](./guides/database-2026-04-data-plane-search-records.md) - [Upsert records](./guides/database-2026-04-data-plane-upsert.md) — Upsert records into a namespace. If a new value is upserted for an existing record ID, it will overwrite the previous value. - [Upsert text](./guides/database-2026-04-data-plane-upsert-records.md) - [Fetch records](./guides/database-2026-04-data-plane-fetch.md) — Look up and return records by ID from a single namespace. The returned records include the vector data and/or metadata. - [Fetch records by metadata](./guides/database-2026-04-data-plane-fetch-by-metadata.md) — Look up and return records by metadata from a single namespace. The returned records include the vector data and metadata. - [Update a record](./guides/database-2026-04-data-plane-update.md) — Update records by ID or by metadata in a namespace. Updating by ID changes the vector and/or metadata of a single record. Updating by metadata changes metadata across multiple records using a metadata filter. - [Delete records](./guides/database-2026-04-data-plane-delete.md) — Delete records by id or by metadata from a single namespace. - [List record IDs](./guides/database-2026-04-data-plane-list.md) — List the IDs of records in a single namespace of a serverless index. An optional prefix can be passed to limit the results to IDs with a common prefix. - [Search with a vector](./guides/database-2025-10-data-plane-query.md) - [Search with text](./guides/database-2025-10-data-plane-search-records.md) - [Upsert vectors](./guides/database-2025-10-data-plane-upsert.md) - [Upsert text](./guides/database-2025-10-data-plane-upsert-records.md) - [Fetch vectors](./guides/database-2025-10-data-plane-fetch.md) — Look up and return vectors by ID from a single namespace. The returned vectors include the vector data and/or metadata. - [Fetch vectors by metadata](./guides/database-2025-10-data-plane-fetch-by-metadata.md) — Look up and return vectors by metadata filter from a single namespace. The returned vectors include the vector data and/or metadata. - [Update a vector](./guides/database-2025-10-data-plane-update.md) - [Delete vectors](./guides/database-2025-10-data-plane-delete.md) — Delete vectors by id from a single namespace. - [List vector IDs](./guides/database-2025-10-data-plane-list.md) - [Search with a vector](./guides/database-2025-04-data-plane-query.md) - [Search with text](./guides/database-2025-04-data-plane-search-records.md) - [Upsert vectors](./guides/database-2025-04-data-plane-upsert.md) - [Upsert text](./guides/database-2025-04-data-plane-upsert-records.md) - [Fetch vectors](./guides/database-2025-04-data-plane-fetch.md) — Look up and return vectors by ID from a single namespace. The returned vectors include the vector data and/or metadata. - [Update a vector](./guides/database-2025-04-data-plane-update.md) - [Delete vectors](./guides/database-2025-04-data-plane-delete.md) — Delete vectors by id from a single namespace. - [List vector IDs](./guides/database-2025-04-data-plane-list.md) - [Search with a vector](./guides/database-2025-01-data-plane-query.md) — Search a namespace with a query vector or record ID and return the IDs of the most similar records, along with their similarity scores. - [Search with text](./guides/database-2025-01-data-plane-search-records.md) - [Upsert vectors](./guides/database-2025-01-data-plane-upsert.md) - [Upsert text](./guides/database-2025-01-data-plane-upsert-records.md) - [Fetch vectors](./guides/database-2025-01-data-plane-fetch.md) — Look up and return vectors, by ID, from a single namespace. The returned vectors include the vector data and/or metadata. - [Update a vector](./guides/database-2025-01-data-plane-update.md) - [Delete vectors](./guides/database-2025-01-data-plane-delete.md) — Delete vectors, by id, from a single namespace. - [List vector IDs](./guides/database-2025-01-data-plane-list.md) - [Upsert vectors](./guides/database-2024-10-data-plane-upsert.md) - [Search with a vector](./guides/database-2024-10-data-plane-query.md) — The query operation searches a namespace, using a query vector. It retrieves the ids of the most similar items in a namespace, along with their similarity scores. - [Fetch vectors](./guides/database-2024-10-data-plane-fetch.md) - [Update a vector](./guides/database-2024-10-data-plane-update.md) - [Delete vectors](./guides/database-2024-10-data-plane-delete.md) - [List vector IDs](./guides/database-2024-10-data-plane-list.md) - [Upsert vectors](./guides/database-2024-07-data-plane-upsert.md) - [Search with a vector](./guides/database-2024-07-data-plane-query.md) — Search a namespace with a query vector or record ID and return the IDs of the most similar records, along with their similarity scores. - [Fetch vectors](./guides/database-2024-07-data-plane-fetch.md) - [Update a vector](./guides/database-2024-07-data-plane-update.md) - [Delete vectors](./guides/database-2024-07-data-plane-delete.md) - [List vector IDs](./guides/database-2024-07-data-plane-list.md) - [Upsert vectors](./guides/database-2024-04-data-plane-upsert.md) - [Search with a vector](./guides/database-2024-04-data-plane-query.md) — The query operation searches a namespace, using a query vector. It retrieves the ids of the most similar items in a namespace, along with their similarity scores. - [Fetch vectors](./guides/database-2024-04-data-plane-fetch.md) - [Update a vector](./guides/database-2024-04-data-plane-update.md) - [Delete vectors](./guides/database-2024-04-data-plane-delete.md) - [List vector IDs](./guides/database-2024-04-data-plane-list.md) - [Invites](./guides/admin-2-invites.md) - [List invites](./guides/admin-2-2026-07-admin-invites-list-invites.md) — List pending and expired invites in the caller's organization. - [Invite a user to the organization](./guides/admin-2-2026-07-admin-invites-invite-a-user-to-the-organization.md) — Invite a user to the organization by email and grant their initial role bindings. - [Get invite details](./guides/admin-2-2026-07-admin-invites-get-invite-details.md) — Get an invite in the caller's organization by ID. - [Delete an invite](./guides/admin-2-2026-07-admin-invites-delete-an-invite.md) — Delete a pending or expired invite and its role bindings; to remove an accepted user, delete the user instead. - [Resend an invite email](./guides/admin-2-2026-07-admin-invites-resend-an-invite-email.md) — Resend the invite email and extend its expiration to 7 days from now; limited to 100 emails per hour per organization. - [Invite a user to the organization](./guides/admin-2-2026-04-admin-create-invite.md) — Invite a user to the organization by email and grant their initial role bindings. - [List invites](./guides/admin-2-2026-04-admin-list-invites.md) — List pending and expired invites in the caller's organization. - [Get invite details](./guides/admin-2-2026-04-admin-fetch-invite.md) — Get an invite in the caller's organization by ID. - [Delete an invite](./guides/admin-2-2026-04-admin-delete-invite.md) — Delete a pending or expired invite and its role bindings; to remove an accepted user, delete the user instead. - [Resend an invite email](./guides/admin-2-2026-04-admin-resend-invite.md) — Resend the invite email and extend its expiration to 7 days from now; limited to 100 emails per hour per organization. - [Role bindings](./guides/admin-2-role-bindings.md) - [List role bindings](./guides/admin-2-2026-07-admin-role-bindings-list-role-bindings.md) — List role bindings in the caller's organization, optionally filtered by principal, resource, and role. - [Create a role binding](./guides/admin-2-2026-07-admin-role-bindings-create-a-role-binding.md) — Grant a role to a principal at an organization or project scope. - [Get role binding details](./guides/admin-2-2026-07-admin-role-bindings-get-role-binding-details.md) — Get a role binding in the caller's organization by ID. - [Delete a role binding](./guides/admin-2-2026-07-admin-role-bindings-delete-a-role-binding.md) — Delete a role binding; permissions are revoked when the deletion completes. - [Create a role binding](./guides/admin-2-2026-04-admin-create-role-binding.md) — Grant a role to a principal at an organization or project scope. - [List role bindings](./guides/admin-2-2026-04-admin-list-role-bindings.md) — List role bindings in the caller's organization, optionally filtered by principal, resource, and role. - [Get role binding details](./guides/admin-2-2026-04-admin-fetch-role-binding.md) — Get a role binding in the caller's organization by ID. - [Delete a role binding](./guides/admin-2-2026-04-admin-delete-role-binding.md) — Delete a role binding; permissions are revoked when the deletion completes. - [Documents](./guides/database-documents.md) - [Upsert documents](./guides/database-2026-07-data-plane-upsert-documents.md) — Upsert documents into a namespace. - [Search documents](./guides/database-2026-07-data-plane-search-documents.md) — Search for documents in a namespace using one or more scoring methods (dense vector, sparse vector, text, or query string similarity). - [Fetch documents](./guides/database-2026-07-data-plane-fetch-documents.md) — Fetch documents from a namespace. Returns the specified fields for each document. Exactly one of ids or filter must be specified. - [List documents](./guides/database-2026-07-data-plane-list-documents.md) — List documents in a namespace. - [Update documents](./guides/database-2026-07-data-plane-update-documents.md) — Apply partial updates to documents in a namespace. Documents are selected either per ID with documents, or in bulk with filter. - [Delete documents](./guides/database-2026-07-data-plane-delete-documents.md) — Delete documents from a namespace. Exactly one of ids, filter, or delete_all must be specified. - [Imports](./guides/database-imports.md) - [Start import](./guides/database-2026-07-data-plane-start-import.md) - [List imports](./guides/database-2026-07-data-plane-list-imports.md) - [Describe an import](./guides/database-2026-07-data-plane-describe-import.md) - [Cancel an import](./guides/database-2026-07-data-plane-cancel-import.md) - [Start import](./guides/database-2026-04-data-plane-start-import.md) - [List imports](./guides/database-2026-04-data-plane-list-imports.md) - [Describe an import](./guides/database-2026-04-data-plane-describe-import.md) - [Cancel an import](./guides/database-2026-04-data-plane-cancel-import.md) - [Start import](./guides/database-2025-10-data-plane-start-import.md) - [List imports](./guides/database-2025-10-data-plane-list-imports.md) - [Describe an import](./guides/database-2025-10-data-plane-describe-import.md) - [Cancel an import](./guides/database-2025-10-data-plane-cancel-import.md) - [Start import](./guides/database-2025-04-data-plane-start-import.md) - [List imports](./guides/database-2025-04-data-plane-list-imports.md) - [Describe an import](./guides/database-2025-04-data-plane-describe-import.md) - [Cancel an import](./guides/database-2025-04-data-plane-cancel-import.md) - [Start import](./guides/database-2025-01-data-plane-start-import.md) - [List imports](./guides/database-2025-01-data-plane-list-imports.md) - [Describe an import](./guides/database-2025-01-data-plane-describe-import.md) - [Cancel an import](./guides/database-2025-01-data-plane-cancel-import.md) - [Start import](./guides/database-2024-10-data-plane-start-import.md) — The start_import operation starts an asynchronous import of vectors from object storage into an index. - [List imports](./guides/database-2024-10-data-plane-list-imports.md) — The list_imports operation lists all recent and ongoing import operations. - [Describe an import](./guides/database-2024-10-data-plane-describe-import.md) — The describe_import operation returns details of a specific import operation. - [Cancel an import](./guides/database-2024-10-data-plane-cancel-import.md) — The cancel_import operation cancels an import operation if it is not yet finished. It has no effect if the operation is already finished. - [Backups](./guides/database-backups.md) - [Create a backup of an index](./guides/database-2026-07-control-plane-create-backup.md) - [List backups for all indexes in a project](./guides/database-2026-07-control-plane-list-project-backups.md) - [List backups for an index](./guides/database-2026-07-control-plane-list-index-backups.md) — When include_deleted is false (or omitted), index_name must resolve to an active index in the project. If no active index by that name exists—including the case where only deleted indexes have used the name—the API returns 404, not an empty list. - [Describe a backup](./guides/database-2026-07-control-plane-describe-backup.md) - [Delete a backup](./guides/database-2026-07-control-plane-delete-backup.md) - [Create an index from a backup](./guides/database-2026-07-control-plane-create-index-from-backup.md) - [List restore jobs](./guides/database-2026-07-control-plane-list-restore-jobs.md) - [Describe a restore job](./guides/database-2026-07-control-plane-describe-restore-job.md) - [List collections](./guides/database-2026-07-control-plane-list-collections.md) - [Create a collection](./guides/database-2026-07-control-plane-create-collection.md) - [Describe a collection](./guides/database-2026-07-control-plane-describe-collection.md) - [Delete a collection](./guides/database-2026-07-control-plane-delete-collection.md) - [Create a backup of an index](./guides/database-2026-04-control-plane-create-backup.md) - [List backups for all indexes in a project](./guides/database-2026-04-control-plane-list-project-backups.md) - [List backups for an index](./guides/database-2026-04-control-plane-list-index-backups.md) — When include_deleted is false (or omitted), index_name must resolve to an active index in the project. If no active index by that name exists—including the case where only deleted indexes have used the name—the API returns 404, not an empty list. - [Describe a backup](./guides/database-2026-04-control-plane-describe-backup.md) - [Delete a backup](./guides/database-2026-04-control-plane-delete-backup.md) - [Create an index from a backup](./guides/database-2026-04-control-plane-create-index-from-backup.md) — Create an index from a backup. For serverless backups, you can optionally set read_capacity so the restored index is created with dedicated read nodes (DRN) instead of defaulting to on-demand capacity. - [List restore jobs](./guides/database-2026-04-control-plane-list-restore-jobs.md) - [Describe a restore job](./guides/database-2026-04-control-plane-describe-restore-job.md) - [List collections](./guides/database-2026-04-control-plane-list-collections.md) - [Create a collection](./guides/database-2026-04-control-plane-create-collection.md) - [Describe a collection](./guides/database-2026-04-control-plane-describe-collection.md) - [Delete a collection](./guides/database-2026-04-control-plane-delete-collection.md) - [Create a backup of an index](./guides/database-2025-10-control-plane-create-backup.md) - [List backups for all indexes in a project](./guides/database-2025-10-control-plane-list-project-backups.md) - [List backups for an index](./guides/database-2025-10-control-plane-list-index-backups.md) — List all backups for an index. - [Describe a backup](./guides/database-2025-10-control-plane-describe-backup.md) - [Delete a backup](./guides/database-2025-10-control-plane-delete-backup.md) - [Create an index from a backup](./guides/database-2025-10-control-plane-create-index-from-backup.md) - [List restore jobs](./guides/database-2025-10-control-plane-list-restore-jobs.md) - [Describe a restore job](./guides/database-2025-10-control-plane-describe-restore-job.md) - [List collections](./guides/database-2025-10-control-plane-list-collections.md) - [Create a collection](./guides/database-2025-10-control-plane-create-collection.md) - [Describe a collection](./guides/database-2025-10-control-plane-describe-collection.md) - [Delete a collection](./guides/database-2025-10-control-plane-delete-collection.md) - [Create a backup of an index](./guides/database-2025-04-control-plane-create-backup.md) - [List backups for all indexes in a project](./guides/database-2025-04-control-plane-list-project-backups.md) - [List backups for an index](./guides/database-2025-04-control-plane-list-index-backups.md) — List all backups for an index. - [Describe a backup](./guides/database-2025-04-control-plane-describe-backup.md) - [Delete a backup](./guides/database-2025-04-control-plane-delete-backup.md) - [Create an index from a backup](./guides/database-2025-04-control-plane-create-index-from-backup.md) - [List restore jobs](./guides/database-2025-04-control-plane-list-restore-jobs.md) - [Describe a restore job](./guides/database-2025-04-control-plane-describe-restore-job.md) - [List collections](./guides/database-2025-04-control-plane-list-collections.md) - [Create a collection](./guides/database-2025-04-control-plane-create-collection.md) - [Describe a collection](./guides/database-2025-04-control-plane-describe-collection.md) - [Delete a collection](./guides/database-2025-04-control-plane-delete-collection.md) - [List collections](./guides/database-2025-01-control-plane-list-collections.md) - [Create a collection](./guides/database-2025-01-control-plane-create-collection.md) - [Describe a collection](./guides/database-2025-01-control-plane-describe-collection.md) - [Delete a collection](./guides/database-2025-01-control-plane-delete-collection.md) - [List collections](./guides/database-2024-10-control-plane-list-collections.md) - [Create a collection](./guides/database-2024-10-control-plane-create-collection.md) - [Describe a collection](./guides/database-2024-10-control-plane-describe-collection.md) - [Delete a collection](./guides/database-2024-10-control-plane-delete-collection.md) - [List collections](./guides/database-2024-07-control-plane-list-collections.md) - [Create a collection](./guides/database-2024-07-control-plane-create-collection.md) - [Describe a collection](./guides/database-2024-07-control-plane-describe-collection.md) - [Delete a collection](./guides/database-2024-07-control-plane-delete-collection.md) - [List collections](./guides/database-2024-04-control-plane-list-collections.md) - [Create a collection](./guides/database-2024-04-control-plane-create-collection.md) - [Describe a collection](./guides/database-2024-04-control-plane-describe-collection.md) - [Delete a collection](./guides/database-2024-04-control-plane-delete-collection.md) - [Backup schedules](./guides/database-backup-schedules.md) - [Create backup schedule](./guides/database-2026-07-control-plane-create-backup-schedule.md) — Create a recurring backup schedule for a Pinecone serverless or BYOC index using the API, including daily, weekly, or monthly frequency and retention policy. - [List backup schedules](./guides/database-2026-07-control-plane-list-backup-schedules.md) — List all backup schedules configured for a Pinecone serverless index, including schedule IDs, frequency, retention, and next scheduled run times. - [Describe backup schedule](./guides/database-2026-07-control-plane-describe-backup-schedule.md) — Retrieve details for a Pinecone backup schedule by schedule ID, including frequency, retention days, next scheduled run, and enabled status. - [Update backup schedule](./guides/database-2026-07-control-plane-update-backup-schedule.md) — Update a Pinecone backup schedule using the API, including pausing with enabled, changing frequency, and adjusting the retention expire_after_days. - [Delete backup schedule](./guides/database-2026-07-control-plane-delete-backup-schedule.md) — Delete a backup schedule for a Pinecone serverless index using the API by schedule ID, while preserving all previously created backup snapshots. - [List backup schedule history](./guides/database-2026-07-control-plane-list-backup-schedule-history.md) — List execution history for a Pinecone backup schedule, including scheduled runs, completed backups, statuses, and cursor-based pagination support. - [Create backup schedule](./guides/database-2026-04-control-plane-create-backup-schedule.md) — Create a recurring backup schedule for a Pinecone serverless index using the API, including daily, weekly, or monthly frequency and retention policy. - [List backup schedules](./guides/database-2026-04-control-plane-list-backup-schedules.md) — List all backup schedules configured for a Pinecone serverless index, including schedule IDs, frequency, retention, and next scheduled run times. - [Describe backup schedule](./guides/database-2026-04-control-plane-describe-backup-schedule.md) — Retrieve details for a Pinecone backup schedule by schedule ID, including frequency, retention days, next scheduled run, and enabled status. - [Update backup schedule](./guides/database-2026-04-control-plane-update-backup-schedule.md) — Update a Pinecone backup schedule using the API, including pausing with enabled, changing frequency, and adjusting the retention expire_after_days. - [Delete backup schedule](./guides/database-2026-04-control-plane-delete-backup-schedule.md) — Delete a backup schedule for a Pinecone serverless index using the API by schedule ID, while preserving all previously created backup snapshots. - [List backup schedule history](./guides/database-2026-04-control-plane-list-backup-schedule-history.md) — List execution history for a Pinecone backup schedule, including scheduled runs, completed backups, statuses, and cursor-based pagination support. # Agent Instructions Cite this page’s canonical URL and keep its documentation version. 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