# Optimize

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:::card{title="Increase search relevance" href="/guides/optimize-increase-relevance"}
Improve Pinecone search quality with reranking models, metadata filtering, and hybrid search that combines full-text and vector retrieval for RAG.
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:::card{title="Increase throughput" href="/guides/optimize-increase-throughput"}
Increase Pinecone throughput with bulk import from object storage, batch upserts, parallel requests, and the Python gRPC SDK for faster ingestion.
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:::card{title="Decrease latency" href="/guides/optimize-decrease-latency"}
Reduce query and upsert latency in Pinecone using namespaces, metadata filters, targeting indexes by host, and regional colocation strategies.
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:::card{title="Save on Pinecone costs" href="/guides/optimize-save-on-costs"}
Save on Pinecone costs by using bulk import over upsert, namespaces for multitenancy, and query patterns that reduce read unit consumption.
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:::card{title="Test Pinecone at scale" href="/guides/optimize-test-at-scale"}
Benchmark Pinecone at production scale by importing 10M vectors and measuring semantic search throughput, query latency, and costs.
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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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