Pinecone

Summary

Pinecone is a managed vector database service for storing and querying high-dimensional embeddings at scale.

Release history

1. docs update Aug 26, 2026 · issue 008

   Pinecone BYOC reaches GA on AWS, GCP, and Azure; Pinecone Nexus knowledge engine for agents also now generally available

   • ›Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) is now generally available on the Enterprise plan across AWS, GCP, and Azure — runs the Pinecone data plane inside your own cloud account so vectors, metadata, and queries never leave your environment, with an in-cluster agent pulling operations from Pinecone without requiring inbound network access.
   • ›Pinecone Nexus, a knowledge engine for agents, is now generally available — point it at your sources, curate them into a context, and query that context to receive grounded, cited answers.
2. docs update Aug 26, 2026 · issue 008

   Pinecone Assistant gains MCP server support, OpenAI-compatible chat, answer evaluation, context snippet retrieval, and a new upsert_file API in the 2026-04 API version.

   • ›New upsert_file API endpoint (2026-04): creates or replaces a file in an assistant by assistant_file_id, enabling idempotent file uploads.
   • ›New list_operations API endpoint (2026-04): lists all in-progress, completed, and failed ingestion operations for an assistant, filterable by operation_type and status query parameters; operations are retained for 30 days.
   • ›New metrics_alignment API endpoint evaluates RAG answer correctness, completeness, and alignment (harmonic mean of correctness and completeness) against a ground-truth answer.
   • ›Adds an OpenAI-compatible Chat Completion API interface for Pinecone Assistant, enabling inline citations, streaming responses, and drop-in integration with OpenAI-compatible clients.
   • ›Adds a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Pinecone Assistant, supporting both remote and local MCP endpoints for connecting AI agents (including Cursor and Claude Desktop).
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   • ›Adds context snippet retrieval from Pinecone Assistant to power external LLMs, RAG pipelines, or agentic workflows, returning citations with signed URLs.
   • ›Adds answer evaluation capability measuring correctness, completeness, and alignment scores to benchmark RAG system quality.
   • ›Adds an n8n workflow quickstart for Pinecone Assistant integrating with OpenAI to download files via HTTP, upload documents, and chat with them from an automation.
   • ›Supports spend alerts and per-dimension usage monitoring (chat tokens, context retrieval, evaluation) for Pinecone Assistant organizations.
   • ›Adds customer-managed encryption key (CMEK) option when creating a new Pinecone project via console or Admin API.
3. docs update Aug 25, 2026 · issue 007

   Pinecone adds Nexus (BYOC RAG with query tracing), S3/GCS/Azure Blob storage integrations, API versioning via X-Pinecone-Api-Version, and CLI target context via pc target.

   └──▷ TRY IT
   Pin API requests to a specific stable Pinecone API version to avoid unintended behaviour from version upgrades.
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   $ curl -X GET 'https://api.pinecone.io/indexes' \
     -H 'Api-Key: <PINECONE_API_KEY>' \
     -H 'X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2024-07'

   • ›New pc target CLI subcommand sets the target organization and project context for all commands, including CI/CD pipelines.
   • ›New X-Pinecone-Api-Version header controls which stable API version your requests use, with documented support windows.
   • ›New storage integrations enable bulk import of vector data into indexes and export of audit logs from Amazon S3 (via IAM role), Google Cloud Storage (via service account key), and Azure Blob Storage (via service principal).
   • ›New Pinecone Nexus product supports BYOC (Bring Your Own Compute) deployment, KnowQL queries that return grounded multi-document answers with citations, and per-query tracing showing reasoning steps, retrieval tool calls, token usage, latency, cost breakdown, and cache savings.
   • ›New Standard plan trial provides $300 in credits over 21 days, including bulk import, backup and restore, RBAC, and higher scale limits.
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   • ›New API errors reference documents all HTTP 2xx, 4xx, and 5xx status codes returned by the Pinecone API.
4. snapshot-20260831 Aug 6, 2026 · issue 012

   Pinecone Nexus, a knowledge engine for agents that delivers grounded, cited answers, is now generally available.

   • ›Pinecone Nexus is now generally available — point it at your sources, curate them into a context, and query that context to receive grounded, cited answers for agent workflows.
5. snapshot-20260829 Aug 1, 2026 · issue 010
   • ›Adds Terraform resources for managing service accounts, role bindings, organization invites, and removing organization members in Pinecone.
6. snapshot-20260828 Aug 1, 2026 · issue 009

   Pinecone Terraform Provider v4.0.0 adds service account, role binding, and org-invite resources plus full import support.

   • ›Adds pinecone_service_account resource to the Terraform Provider for managing service accounts.
   • ›Adds pinecone_role_binding resource for managing role bindings via Terraform.
   • ›Adds resources for managing organization invites and removing organization members.
   • ›Adds data sources for reading existing indexes, collections, projects, service accounts, role bindings, invites, and users.
   • ›Adds terraform import support for every resource in the Pinecone Terraform Provider.
7. snapshot-20260825 Aug 1, 2026 · issue 007
   • ›Adds Terraform resources for managing service accounts, role bindings, organization invites, and removing organization members in Pinecone.
8. snapshot-20260824 Aug 1, 2026 · issue 006

   Pinecone Terraform Provider v4.0.0 adds service account, role binding, invite, and member management resources plus data sources for all major objects.

   • ›Adds resources for managing organization invites and removing organization members via Terraform.
   • ›Adds data sources for reading existing indexes, collections, projects, service accounts, role bindings, invites, and users in Terraform.
   • ›Adds terraform import support for every resource in the Pinecone Terraform Provider.
9. snapshot-20260821 Aug 1, 2026 · issue 003
   • ›Adds resources for managing organization invites and removing organization members via Terraform.
10. snapshot-20260820 Aug 1, 2026 · issue 002

    Pinecone Terraform Provider v4.0.0 adds service account, role binding, and org invite resources plus data sources for all major resource types.

    • ›Adds resource blocks for managing service accounts, role bindings, organization invites, and removing organization members in the Pinecone Terraform Provider v4.0.0.
    • ›Adds data sources for reading existing indexes, collections, projects, service accounts, role bindings, invites, and users via the Terraform Provider.
    • ›Adds terraform import support for every resource in the Pinecone Terraform Provider.