Pinecone vs Weaviate vs Qdrant
These three are vector databases used under AI apps. Each line is from that product's own pricing page or repository. This is not a scored ranking.
The date under each fact is the day that source page was read. Newest check 19 Oct 2026 on AgentAtlas.
Pinecone
Plans include Starter free, Builder at $20 per month flat, Standard with a $50 per month minimum, Enterprise with a $500 per month minimum, and BYOC by contacting sales.
Pinecone pricing · Checked 19 Oct 2026
Starter includes up to 2 GB storage, and lists Inference and Assistant among products available on that plan.
Pinecone pricing · Checked 19 Oct 2026
Weaviate
Cloud pricing lists Free at $0, Flex from $45 per month pay-as-you-go, and Premium as contact sales, with an FAQ noting Premium from $400 per month.
Weaviate pricing · Checked 19 Oct 2026
The free cloud tier lists 100,000 objects, 1 GB memory, and 10 GB disk. The GitHub repository shows a BSD-3-Clause licence with some files under a commercial licence.
Weaviate pricing · Checked 19 Oct 2026
Qdrant
Cloud pricing is usage-based by the hour on vCPU, memory, and storage, with Free, Standard, and Premium tiers.
Qdrant pricing · Checked 19 Oct 2026
The free tier lists 1 node, 0.5 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, and 4 GB disk. The repository describes a Rust vector search engine under Apache-2.0.
Qdrant pricing · Checked 19 Oct 2026