# Manage cost

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Understand how Pinecone bills read units, write units, storage, egress, and embedding for full-text search, semantic search, and hybrid search.
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:::card{title="Manage cost" href="/guides/manage-cost-manage-cost"}
Reduce Pinecone spend with strategies like spend alerts, ID-prefix listing, multitenant namespaces, prepaid credits, and support cost optimization help.
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:::card{title="Monitor usage and costs" href="/guides/manage-cost-monitor-usage-and-costs"}
Monitor Pinecone usage and costs at the organization, index, and operation level by tracking read units, write units, and storage consumption.
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## Related pages

- [Account management](./account-management-index.md)
- [Admin](./admin-2-index.md)
- [Admin](./admin-index.md)
- [APIs](./apis-index.md)
- [Architecture](./architecture-index.md)
- [Assistants](./assistants-index.md)
- [Bring Your Own Cloud](./bring-your-own-cloud-index.md)
- [Build an assistant](./build-an-assistant-index.md)
- [Build an integration](./build-an-integration-index.md)
- [Changelog](./changelog-index.md)

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