# List indexes

```shell curl theme={null}
PINECONE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"

curl -i -X GET "https://api.pinecone.io/indexes" \
-H "Api-Key: $PINECONE_API_KEY" \
-H "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2025-10"
```

```json curl theme={null}
{
  "indexes": [
    {
      "name": "example-serverless-dedicated-index",
      "vector_type": "dense",
      "metric": "cosine",
      "dimension": 1536,
      "status": {
        "ready": true,
        "state": "Ready"
      },
      "host": "example-serverless-dedicated-index-bhnyigt.svc.aped-4627-b74a.pinecone.io",
      "spec": {
        "serverless": {
          "region": "us-east-1",
          "cloud": "aws",
          "read_capacity": {
            "mode": "Dedicated",
            "dedicated": {
              "node_type": "b1",
              "scaling": "Manual",
              "manual": {
                "shards": 1,
                "replicas": 2
              }
            },
            "status": {
              "state": "Scaling",
              "current_shards": 1,
              "current_replicas": 1
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "deletion_protection": "enabled",
      "tags": {
        "tag0": "value0",
        "tag1": "value1"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "example-serverless-ondemand-index",
      "vector_type": "dense",
      "metric": "cosine",
      "dimension": 1024,
      "status": {
        "ready": true,
        "state": "Ready"
      },
      "host": "example-serverless-ondemand-index-bhnyigt.svc.aped-4627-b74a.pinecone.io",
      "spec": {
        "serverless": {
          "region": "us-east-1",
          "cloud": "aws",
          "read_capacity": {
            "mode": "OnDemand",
            "status": {
              "state": "Ready",
              "current_shards": null,
              "current_replicas": null
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "deletion_protection": "enabled",
      "tags": {
        "tag1": "value1",
        "tag2": "value2"
      },
      "embed": {
        "model": "llama-text-embed-v2",
        "field_map": {
          "text": "text"
        },
        "dimension": 1024,
        "metric": "cosine",
        "write_parameters": {
          "dimension": 1024,
          "input_type": "passage",
          "truncate": "END"
        },
        "read_parameters": {
          "dimension": 1024,
          "input_type": "query",
          "truncate": "END"
        },
        "vector_type": "dense"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "example-pod-index",
      "vector_type": "dense",
      "metric": "cosine",
      "dimension": 768,
      "status": {
        "ready": true,
        "state": "Ready"
      },
      "host": "example-pod-index-bhnyigt.svc.us-east-1-aws.pinecone.io",
      "spec": {
        "pod": {
          "replicas": 1,
          "shards": 1,
          "pods": 1,
          "pod_type": "s1.x1",
          "environment": "us-east-1-aws"
        }
      },
      "deletion_protection": "disabled",
      "tags": null
    }
  ]
}
```

`GET /indexes`

:::code-group
```bash title="cURL"
curl --request GET \
  --url https://api.pinecone.io/indexes \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'
```

```json title="200"
{
  "indexes": [
    {
      "name": "example-index",
      "dimension": 1536,
      "metric": "<string>",
      "host": "semantic-search-c01b5b5.svc.us-west1-gcp.pinecone.io",
      "private_host": "semantic-search-c01b5b5.svc.private.us-west1-gcp.pinecone.io",
      "deletion_protection": "<string>",
      "tags": {
        "tag0": "val0",
        "tag1": "val1"
      },
      "embed": {
        "field_map": {
          "text": "your-text-field"
        },
        "metric": "cosine",
        "model": "multilingual-e5-large",
        "read_parameters": {
          "input_type": "query",
          "truncate": "NONE"
        },
        "write_parameters": {
          "input_type": "passage"
        }
      },
      "spec": {
        "pod": {
          "environment": "us-east-1-aws",
          "metadata_config": {
            "indexed": [
              "genre",
              "title",
              "imdb_rating"
            ]
          },
          "pod_type": "p1.x1",
          "pods": 1,
          "replicas": 1,
          "shards": 1
        }
      },
      "status": {
        "ready": true,
        "state": "ScalingUpPodSize"
      },
      "vector_type": "<string>"
    }
  ]
}
```
:::

## Authorizations

- `Authorization` (header, string, required) — Bearer authentication header of the form `Bearer <token>`.

## Headers

- `X-Pinecone-Api-Version` (header, string, required) — Required date-based version header

## Response

- `200` — This operation returns a list of all the indexes that you have previously created, and which are associated with the given project
- `401` — Unauthorized. Possible causes: Invalid API key.
- `500` — Internal server error.

## Related pages

- [List indexes](./database-2026-07-control-plane-list-indexes.md)
- [Create an index](./database-2026-07-control-plane-create-index.md)
- [Create an index with integrated embedding](./database-2026-07-control-plane-create-for-model.md)
- [Describe an index](./database-2026-07-control-plane-describe-index.md)
- [Delete an index](./database-2026-07-control-plane-delete-index.md)
- [Configure an index](./database-2026-07-control-plane-configure-index.md)
- [Get index stats](./database-2026-07-data-plane-describeindexstats.md)
- [List indexes](./database-2026-04-control-plane-list-indexes.md)
- [Create an index](./database-2026-04-control-plane-create-index.md)
- [Create an index with integrated embedding](./database-2026-04-control-plane-create-for-model.md)

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