Pinecone launches $20 Builder plan with 1M token promo offer
What changed
New Builder plan launched at $20/month flat for solo developers and small teams, sitting between Starter and Standard. Includes increased usage limits, multi-cloud (coming soon), and Free support.
Starter plan reranking models access restricted from 'All except cohere-rerank-3.5' to 'bge-reranker-v2-m3 only', removing access to pinecone-rerank-v0 for Starter users.
Limited-time promotional offer added for Starter plan: input tokens temporarily increased from 500k/mo to 1M/mo until June 30, 2026, with link to Pinecone Marketplace.
Before and after
May 4, 2026 vs May 11, 2026New Builder plan launched at $20/month flat for solo developers and small teams, sitting between Starter and Standard. Includes increased usage limits, multi-cloud (coming soon), and Free support.
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