Pinecone Alternatives

Pinecone is described as 'Fully-managed, scalable vector database offering fast, relevant search with developer-friendly APIs, transparent pricing, metadata filtering, and no infrastructure hassle' and is a Vector Database in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Pinecone for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Web-based, Self-Hosted, SaaS and Docker apps. The best Pinecone alternative is AnythingLLM, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Pinecone are Marqo, Lantern Database, txtai and FalkorDB.

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  1. AnythingLLM icon
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    A multi-user ChatGPT for any LLMs and vector database. Unlimited documents, messages, and storage in one privacy-focused app. Now available as a desktop application!.

    155 AnythingLLM alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • Linux
     
    • AnythingLLM is the most popular Windows, Mac, Linux & Self-Hosted alternative to Pinecone.

    • AnythingLLM is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Pinecone.

    • AnythingLLM is Free and Open SourcePinecone is Freemium and Open Source
  2. Marqo icon
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    Marqo is more than a vector database, it's an end-to-end vector search engine. Vector generation, storage and retrieval are handled out of the box through a single API. No need to bring your own embeddings.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • Marqo is the most popular SaaS alternative to Pinecone.

    • Marqo is Freemium and Open SourcePinecone is also Freemium and Open Source
  3. PostgreSQL vector database extension for building AI applications.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  4. txtai icon
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    Embeddings databases are a union of vector indexes (sparse and dense), graph networks and relational databases. This enables vector search with SQL, topic modeling, retrieval augmented generation and more.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  5. FalkorDB icon
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    A super fast Graph Database uses GraphBLAS under the hood for its sparse adjacency matrix graph representation. Our goal is to provide the best Knowledge Graph for LLM (GraphRAG).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  6. LanceDB icon
     1 like

    LanceDB is an open-source database for vector-search built with persistent storage, which greatly simplifies retrieval, filtering and management of embeddings.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. Orama icon
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    A complete search engine and RAG pipeline in your browser, server or edge network with support for full-text, vector, and hybrid search in less than 2kb.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • Orama is the most popular Web-based alternative to Pinecone.

    • Orama is the most popular commercial alternative to Pinecone.

    • Orama is Paid and Open SourcePinecone is Freemium and Open Source
  8. SeaGOAT icon
     1 like

    SeaGOAT is an "AI-based" code search engine that you can run on your local computer, or you can run it on your server as a REST API. It can be considered an alternative to grep.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  9. Qdrant icon
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    Qdrant (read: quadrant) is a vector similarity search engine and vector database. It provides a production-ready service with a convenient API to store, search, and manage points—vectors with an additional payload Qdrant is tailored to extended filtering support.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. Milvus icon
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    Milvus is an open-source vector database built to power embedding similarity search and AI applications. Milvus makes unstructured data search more accessible, and provides a consistent user experience regardless of the deployment environment.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Docker
     
  11. vecr.io icon
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    API-first search platform that enables developers to implement intelligent search capabilities without the complexity of managing ML infrastructure. Through its RESTful API, it automatically indexes and updates website content, leveraging vector databases and AI embeddings to...

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  12. Chroma DB icon
     Like

    Open-source search and retrieval database for AI applications.

    52 Chroma DB alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Open Source (Apache-2.0)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Python
     
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