Expanded role-based access controls (RBAC)

UpdateJul 13, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

Pinecone now offers an expanded set of roles for managing access to organizations and projects. New Organization member and Project member roles grant more restricted access than the owner and manager roles, and projects now support granular editor and viewer roles (project, control plane, and data plane) that you can assign to users, service accounts, and...

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