Pinecone vs Weaviate
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Pinecone
Serverless vector database with pay-per-use pricing
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Weaviate
Open-source vector database with hybrid search built in
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8.1 / 10 | 8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Open Source |
| Free tier | Starter: free, up to 5 serverless indexes, AWS us-east-1 only | Always-free Weaviate Cloud sandbox (100,000 objects, 1 GB memory, 10 GB disk, 1 collection); BSD-3-Clause core free to self-host |
| Paid from | From $20/mo (Builder, flat); Standard $50/mo minimum usage; Enterprise $500/mo minimum usage | Flex from $45/mo pay-as-you-go; Premium prepaid contract, minimum from $400/mo |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — |
| Founded | 2019 | 2019 |
| Maker | — | — |
| Verdict | Pinecone remains the reference point for managed vector databases: serverless architecture that auto-scales without index-sizing decisions, low-latency queries, and SDKs across Python, TypeScript, Java and Go that make i... |
Weaviate pairs vector similarity with BM25 keyword search in a single query, and its built-in vectorizer modules mean you are not always wiring your own embedding pipeline. G2 reviewers rate it 4.4 out of 5 across 49 rev... |
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