Pinecone vs Weaviate
Weaviate shines for hybrid search (BM25+vector) and GraphQL. Pinecone shines for pure vector simplicity and managed scale. At 20M vectors, Weaviate Dedicated with INT8 is ~2× cheaper.
Monthly Cost Across Realistic Benchmarks
RAG Prototype · 100k×1536 fp32
Pinecone Serverless: $2.17/mo Weaviate Cloud (WCS): $25.00/mo
Cheaper: Pinecone ServerlessMid Scale · 1M×768 INT8
Pinecone Serverless: $9.00/mo Weaviate Cloud (WCS): $25.00/mo
Cheaper: Pinecone ServerlessLarge · 5M×768 INT8 10M queries
Pinecone Serverless: $85.43/mo Weaviate Cloud (WCS): $62.30/mo
Cheaper: Weaviate Cloud (WCS)