Manage cost

For the latest pricing details, see our pricing page.

For help estimating total cost, see Understanding cost. To view or download a detailed report of your current usage and costs, see Monitor usage and costs.

To lower your bill, see Ways to reduce cost and Save on costs, which cover available credits and discounts plus ways to optimize your workload.

You can set up email alerts to monitor your organization's monthly spending. These alerts notify designated recipients when spending reaches specified thresholds. The alerts automatically reset at the start of each monthly billing cycle.

To set a spend alert:

1. Go to Settings > Spend alerts in the Pinecone console
2. Click + Add Alert.
3. Enter the dollar amount for the spend alert.
4. Enter the email addresses to send the alert to. Organization owners are listed by default.
5. Click Create.

To edit a spend alert:

1. In the row of the spend alert you want to edit, click ellipsis (...) menu > Edit.
2. Change the dollar amount and/or email addresses for the spend alert.
3. Click Update.

By using a hierarchical ID schema, you can retrieve records without performing a query. To do so, you can use list to retrieve records by ID prefix, then use fetch to retrieve the records you need. This can reduce costs, because query consumes more RUs when scanning a larger namespace, while fetch consumes a fixed ratio of RUs to records retrieved.

If your application requires you to isolate the data of each customer/user, consider implementing multitenancy with serverless indexes and namespaces. With serverless indexes, you pay only for the amount of data stored and operations performed. For queries in particular, the cost is partly based on the total number of records that must be scanned, so using namespaces can significantly reduce query costs.

Pinecone offers an incentive for customers who purchase prepaid credits with an upfront payment. Customers may purchase between $8,000 and $25,000 in prepaid credits.

Customers who purchase prepaid credits can unlock additional usage capacity at no extra cost. The available benefits vary based on the selected plan and prepaid amount.

Prepaid credits apply to Pinecone services at List Price. Any usage that exceeds the available prepaid credits will be billed at full List Price.

Customers on Standard and Enterprise pay-as-you-go plans can purchase prepaid credits directly by navigating in the Pinecone console to Settings > Billing > Plans.

Users on Standard and Enterprise plans can contact Support for help in optimizing costs.

• Understanding cost
• Monitor usage and costs
• Save on costs