Packaging change·Oct 4 → Jan 2, 2026·Q4 2025·Data & Analytics

Pinecone Introduces Dedicated Read Nodes for Enhanced Query Performance in Standard and Enterprise Plans

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What changed

Feature change

Dedicated plan description updated from 'Bring-your-own-cloud (BYOC)' to 'Deploy Pinecone to your private cloud environment'

Threshold added

Document Limit metric added to Assistant section: 100 for Starter plan, 10,000/assistant for Standard and Enterprise plans

Feature added

Dedicated Read Nodes (DRN) added to Standard and Enterprise plans - exclusive infrastructure for queries with provisioned nodes reserved for indexes

Feature added

DRN product section added to 'Explore products' - Dedicated Read Nodes with exclusive infrastructure for queries, no noisy neighbors, no shared queues, no read rate limits

Plan renamed

Plan renamed from 'Dedicated' to 'Bring your own cloud'

Feature change

Product renamed from 'Pinecone Serverless' to 'Pinecone Database On-Demand'

Before and after

Oct 4, 2025 vs Jan 2, 2026

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Dedicated plan description updated from 'Bring-your-own-cloud (BYOC)' to 'Deploy Pinecone to your private cloud environment'

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