Pinecone slashes storage costs 75%, expands Builder to multi-cloud
What happened
Between the Jun 1, 2026 and Jun 8, 2026 captures of Pinecone's pricing page, Pulse recorded 2 changes: Import from object storage price decreased from $1/GB to $0.25/GB for Standard and Enterprise plans (75% reduction); Builder plan cloud and region availability expanded from 'coming soon' to full multi-cloud support (AWS, Azure, GCP) with all available regions. Pulse files it as a pricing change (price decrease, feature change) with a downward direction. Pulse's latest capture (Oct 3, 2026) lists Builder at $20, Standard at $4 Write Units (M) + $0.15 Restore from Backup (GB), Enterprise at $0.1 GB egress per month + $500 subscription, HIPAA Compliance at $190 and Developer Support at $29.
It lands 28 days after Pinecone's previous change, "Pinecone launches $20 Builder plan with 1M token promo offer" (May 12, 2026). Before that Pulse recorded "Pinecone Shifts to Region-Variable Pricing for Database Operations" (Apr 14, 2026), "Pinecone lifts assistant document caps" (Apr 6, 2026) and "Pinecone Downgrades BYOC Support Tier, Rebrands as Cloud-Native Option" (Apr 3, 2026). Pinecone has been tracked since 2023-12-22.
In the same window Zilliz and Qdrant also changed their Data & Analytics pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- Standard, Enterprise · Price−75%$1/GB$0.25/GB
- Builder · FeatureChanged'coming soon'full multi-cloud support
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard, Enterprise | Price | $1/GB | $0.25/GB | −75% |
| Builder | Feature | 'coming soon' | full multi-cloud support | Changed |
Values as written on Pinecone's public pricing page in the two captures Pulse compared; where the page states no number, the cells give the wording before and after.
Evidence
The two captures Pulse comparedFull-page captures of Pinecone's pricing page (pinecone.io) from Jun 1, 2026 and Jun 8, 2026; the change is marked around the middle of the page, where standard, enterprise price reads $1/GB and then $0.25/GB.
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Pinecone, the last 90 days
Full history- Sep 21, 2026packagingPinecone launches Nexus, an agent knowledge engine, via request-only trial
- Jul 17, 2026improvedPinecone: Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) added to Enterprise plan
- Jul 6, 2026packagingPinecone adds egress pricing: $0.10/GB overage past 100GB on top plans
- Jun 9, 2026improvedPinecone slashes storage costs 75%, expands Builder to multi-cloud · this change
- May 12, 2026improvedPinecone launches $20 Builder plan with 1M token promo offer
- Apr 14, 2026packagingPinecone Shifts to Region-Variable Pricing for Database Operations
- Apr 6, 2026packagingPinecone lifts assistant document caps
- Apr 3, 2026improvedPinecone Downgrades BYOC Support Tier, Rebrands as Cloud-Native Option
Across Data & Analytics in the same window
All Data & Analytics changes- ZillizMay 19Zilliz cuts vector storage prices up to 38% while boosting capacity
- QdrantApr 24Qdrant Splits Premium SLA into Single and Multi-AZ Uptime Tiers
- ZillizMay 13Zilliz raises dedicated plan prices 27%, adds on-demand compute tier
- QdrantApr 13Qdrant Adds GPU Indexing and CLI Automation Across All Tiers
- QdrantApr 3Qdrant launches three-tier cloud pricing with free inference models
Questions about this change
Did Pinecone raise prices in June 2026?
No — prices went down. Between Jun 1, 2026 and Jun 8, 2026 Pinecone's pricing page showed 1 price cut: Standard, Enterprise: $1/GB → $0.25/GB (−75%).
What changed on Pinecone's pricing page between Jun 1, 2026 and Jun 8, 2026?
Standard, Enterprise price: $1/GB → $0.25/GB (−75%); Builder feature: 'coming soon' → full multi-cloud support, changed. Pulse compared the captures it took on Jun 1, 2026 and Jun 8, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Pinecone change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 4 other pricing-page changes for Pinecone in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Pinecone launches $20 Builder plan with 1M token promo offer" on May 12, 2026; Pinecone has been tracked since 2023-12-22.