Pinecone vs Supabase Vector (pgvector) pricing
Both are in vector database apis. Pinecone is billed per read/write unit + storage; Supabase Vector (pgvector) is billed bundled in postgres plan (storage-based). Numbers below are copied from each vendor's pricing page.
PineconeFree tier or trial
- Free tier
- Starter: 2GB storage (~350K vectors), 1 index, no SLA
- Billed
- Per read/write unit + storage
- Best for
- Serverless vector search for production RAG
- Verified
- Jun 27, 2026
Supabase Vector (pgvector)Free tier or trial
- Free tier
- Free project: 500MB DB, pgvector included
- Billed
- Bundled in Postgres plan (storage-based)
- Best for
- Postgres-native embeddings, no separate service
- Verified
- Jun 27, 2026
Pinecone plans
| Plan | Price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | $0/month | Free on-demand serverless database, Inference, Assistant, dense/sparse/full-text indexes, console metrics, community Discord support. |
| Builder | $20/month flat | Everything in Starter plus higher usage limits, multiple projects/users, and Prometheus + Datadog monitoring. |
| Standard | $50/month minimum usage | Pay-as-you-go pricing, Dedicated Read Nodes, backup/restore, RBAC, SAML SSO; 3-week trial with $300 credits. |
| Enterprise | $500/month minimum usage | Adds 99.95% uptime SLA, private networking, customer-managed encryption keys, audit logs, and Pro support. |
| Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) | Custom | Pinecone deployed in your own cloud account with zero-access operations and Pro support. |
- Consumption-based pricing is hard to predict; multiple reports of bills running 2.5-4x over budget at scale
- Serverless cold starts add 200-800ms latency on idle indexes and cannot be disabled on that tier
- $50/month minimum on Standard (introduced late 2025) and opaque capacity-fee mechanics surfacing after the fact
Source: https://www.pinecone.io/pricing/
Supabase Vector (pgvector) plans
| Plan | Price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 2 active projects, 500 MB database storage each, 50,000 MAU; pgvector available; projects paused after 1 week of inactivity. No uptime SLA. |
| Pro | $25/mo per org | 8 GB database, 100 GB storage, 100K MAU included; includes $10/mo compute credits (covers one Micro instance); usage-based overages; daily backups. |
| Team | $599/mo per org | Pro features plus SOC2 / ISO 27001, SSO, audit logs, 14-day PITR backup retention, and priority support. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom pricing with designated support, HIPAA, BYO-cloud options, and the 99.9% uptime SLA with service credits. |
- Good query latency requires the index to fit in RAM, pushing you to larger, costlier compute add-ons
- Performance degrades and p99 tail latency grows beyond roughly 5–50M vectors on a single node, not ideal for billion-scale search
- A real 99.9% uptime SLA is Enterprise-only; lower tiers get no contractual guarantee
Source: https://supabase.com/pricing