Pinecone new features in September 2026

Everything Pinecone shipped in September 2026: 8 releases, grouped by product, each linked to Pinecone's release notes.

August 2026

GA 1Deprecation 1Pricing 1Update 5

Pinecone Database5

Pinecone DatabaseSep 15, 2026

Pod-to-serverless migration supports up to 500 million records

Migrating a pod-based index to serverless now supports indexes with up to 500 million records, up from 50 million. If you need to migrate a larger index, contact Support before you start.

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Pinecone DatabaseSep 13, 2026

Higher namespace limit on the Enterprise plan

The Enterprise limit for namespaces per serverless index is now 1,000,000. Pinecone can accommodate more for specific use cases. Contact Support to request a higher limit.

UpdatePricingSource

Pinecone DatabaseSep 2, 2026

General availability: Full-text search and the Documents API

Full-text search is now generally available on API version 2026-07, built on the new Documents API. Create schema-based document indexes that combine full-text (BM25), dense-vector, and sparse-vector ranking fields in a single index. Query them with BM25 token matching, Lucene query syntax, or vector similarity, narrowed by metadata and text-match filters.

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Pinecone DatabaseSep 1, 2026

BYOC stores cluster metadata in FoundationDB

BYOC deployments run FoundationDB inside your Kubernetes cluster to store cluster metadata, with no managed database to operate.

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Pinecone DatabaseSep 1, 2026

Egress metering and monthly egress allowances

Pinecone now meters egress, the data returned to you on reads. Each plan includes a monthly egress allowance: 1 GB on Starter, 10 GB on Builder, and 100 GB on Standard and Enterprise. Egress is metered on reads that return record data, such as query, fetch, list, and search. Writes, index statistics, and index management requests aren't metered.

UpdateSQLPricingSource

Pinecone Assistant2

Pinecone AssistantSep 15, 2026

Gemini 2.5 Pro and o4-mini deprecations for Assistant

Google has deprecated the Gemini 2.5 Pro model, and OpenAI has deprecated o4-mini. Pinecone Assistant automatically routes all chat requests that specify gemini-2.5-pro to Gemini 3.5 Flash, and all chat requests that specify o4-mini to GPT-5, at the same price. No code changes are required.

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Pinecone AssistantSep 15, 2026

Gemini 3.5 Flash now available for Assistant chat

Pinecone Assistant now supports Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash model. To use this model, set model: "gemini-3.5-flash" in your chat requests. For more information, see Choose a model.

UpdateLLMsSource

Pinecone platform1

Pinecone platformSep 1, 2026

Bulk import credit is no longer offered

New Standard and Enterprise subscriptions no longer receive the one-time \$250 bulk import credit (1 TB). Imports from object storage are billed at the standard \$0.25/GB rate. Credits already granted stay usable until they expire, 60 days after they were granted. The last balances expire by November 1, 2026. For details, see Understanding cost.

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