# List collections

Collections are supported only for pod-based indexes. Pod-based indexes cannot be created with API version `2026-07`, so this operation applies to pod-based indexes created with an earlier API version.

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

curl -i -X GET "https://api.pinecone.io/collections" \
  -H "Api-Key: $PINECONE_API_KEY" \
  -H "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2026-07"
```

`GET /collections`

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

```json title="200"
{
  "collections": [
    {
      "name": "example-collection",
      "size": 10000000,
      "status": "Initializing",
      "dimension": 1536,
      "vector_count": 120000,
      "environment": "us-east1-gcp"
    }
  ]
}
```
:::

## 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` — List all the collections in your current project.
- `401` — Unauthorized. Possible causes: missing or invalid API key.
- `500` — Internal server error.

## Related pages

- [Create a backup of an index](./database-2026-07-control-plane-create-backup.md)
- [List backups for all indexes in a project](./database-2026-07-control-plane-list-project-backups.md)
- [List backups for an index](./database-2026-07-control-plane-list-index-backups.md)
- [Describe a backup](./database-2026-07-control-plane-describe-backup.md)
- [Delete a backup](./database-2026-07-control-plane-delete-backup.md)
- [Create an index from a backup](./database-2026-07-control-plane-create-index-from-backup.md)
- [List restore jobs](./database-2026-07-control-plane-list-restore-jobs.md)
- [Describe a restore job](./database-2026-07-control-plane-describe-restore-job.md)
- [Create a collection](./database-2026-07-control-plane-create-collection.md)
- [Describe a collection](./database-2026-07-control-plane-describe-collection.md)

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