Pinecone Serverless vs Neon Serverless Postgres (pgvector) pricing
Across 3 benchmark workloads, Pinecone Serverless prices lower in 2 of 3 — by up to ~89% at parity scenarios. It bills serverless capacity, so small workloads stay cheap. Both are compared on identical USD-normalized footprints; verify current rates via each row's provenance date in the full tool.
Monthly Cost Across Realistic Benchmarks
RAG Prototype · 100k×1536 fp32
Pinecone Serverless: $2.17/mo Neon Serverless Postgres (pgvector): $19.00/mo
Cheaper: Pinecone ServerlessMid Scale · 1M×768 INT8
Pinecone Serverless: $9.00/mo Neon Serverless Postgres (pgvector): $19.00/mo
Cheaper: Pinecone ServerlessLarge · 5M×768 INT8 10M queries
Pinecone Serverless: $85.43/mo Neon Serverless Postgres (pgvector): $19.00/mo
Cheaper: Neon Serverless Postgres (pgvector)