Pinecone, a serverless vector database provider, has made its new product, Pinecone Serverless, available to the public. It was initially released in Public Preview mode in January 2024 .

Over 20,000 organizations have used the product in the beta stage. Select customers, including Gong, Help Scout, New Relic, Notion, TaskUs, and You.com, are already running large, critical workloads with billions of vectors.

Analyst QuickTake: Pinecone Serverless is a serverless vector database designed for production deployments, enabling complex AI applications while reducing costs by up to 10x–100x by decoupling storage and computation and charging only for CPU time. It features advanced indexing, retrieval algorithms, and a multi-tenant compute layer, integrating with services like Anthropic and Vercel. Its key functions include vector search, RAG, knowledge extraction, and context generation, with "Private Endpoints" for secure connections to Amazon's virtual private clouds.