Pinecone

Observed profile

Managed vector database for semantic search and AI applications.

As of , AIIStack tracks Pinecone's Innovation score at 26.43/100, down 5.71 points.

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Founded
Founded year not disclosed
Official website
pinecone.io

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Innovation score
26.43/100
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5.71 pts
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Momentum score
26.43/100
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Popularity score
26.43/100
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9 new attributable Hacker News discussions were observed in the last seven days.

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6 new attributable Hacker News discussions were observed in the last seven days.

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Pricing page changed: free · Starter · Enterprise · $20/month

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8 new attributable Hacker News discussions were observed in the last seven days.

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4 new attributable Hacker News discussions were observed in the last seven days.

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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)

Location: Yerevan, Armenia Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: React, Node, Nest.js, Python, React Native, Expo, Tauri, Docker, Inngest, Pinecone, Qdrant, OpenAI API, LangChain, LangGraph Résumé/CV: https://github.com/oogxdd Email: ignatif@gmail.com

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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)

Location: La Center, WA, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Python, FastAPI, Node.js, React, Next.js, TypeScript, LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, RAG, Agentic AI, Vector Databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS, pgvector), AWS (Bedrock, SageMaker, ECS, Lambda, EC2, S3), GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka, WebSockets, LiveKit, Deepgram, Whisper, ElevenLabs Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16OnzHA6ljIFV0jh4TCLdAMgB5__... Email: benjaminkrueger1@outlook.com Summary: Senior AI Engineer with 9+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years building production AI applications. I've developed multimodal AI systems, RAG platforms, AI agents, real-time voice assistants, an…

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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)

Location: College Park, MD, USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes (Anywhere in the US) Technologies: Python, SQL, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, Hugging Face, QLoRA, DPO, RAG, LangChain, LangGraph, Ollama, Pandas, NumPy, PostgreSQL, Redis, Pinecone, Qdrant, FAISS, FastAPI, Docker, AWS Résumé/CV: https://www.sahil-chordia.com/resume.pdf Email: chordiasahil24@gmail.com MS in Data Science from University of Maryland - College Park (graduated in May 2026, 3.77 GPA). Recently, during internship at Raising the Floor, I built an LLM pipeline that cut metadata audit time by 96 percent and a Qdrant-backed Gemma2 chatbot for assistive technology recommendations. Recent Projects: 1. Clippy Vision, a local-first AI memory assistant with a 3-stage classification pipeline; 2. Launchway -…

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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)

Location: Dallas, TX, 75223 Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Possibly Technologies: Languages: Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, Java, SQL Frontend: React, Next.js Backend: FastAPI, Django, Node.js, Express AI: OpenAI, Claude, LangChain, LangGraph, RAG, AI Agents Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Pinecone Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions Tools: Git, Postman, Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18E9AC0QPsuSKA4y8A1YdKWSRbc5... Email: iansmith1095@gmail.com

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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)

Location: India Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Node.js, Express.js, Next.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, BullMQ, Prisma, Socket.io, React, Docker, AWS, RAG Pipelines, agentic AI, LangChain, LangGraph, Pinecone, LLM Integration Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TQtVpiRiStBEMlSMkjr6o7hZaDp... Portfolio: https://praveen-portfolio-dev.vercel.app/ Email: praveenprabhakarkumar@gmail.com I keep turning single-tenant hacks into systems that scale to N — without a rewrite. In my last role, I took a Fortune 50 telecom client's warehouse platform from a hardcoded single-store system to a config-driven multi-store architecture, taking daily EDI throughput from ~200 to 500-600+ transactions/day with …

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Competitive context

Pinecone alternatives and competitors to monitor

weaviate.io

Open-source vector database and hybrid-search platform for AI applications.

Vector databases
Momentum score
66.43/100
Score change
5.72

qdrant.tech

Vector database and search engine for AI applications.

Vector databases
Popularity score
72.14/100
Score change
0