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Pinecone
A hosted vector database: it stores embeddings (lists of numbers that represent the meaning of text) and returns the stored items most similar to a query.
Price: From US$20 a month flat for the Builder plan; the Standard plan is pay per use with a US$50 monthly minimum (read 13 October 2026)
Free plan: yes, limited
www.pinecone.io
Who uses it, and for what
One row per story. The grade is for the claim that the business uses this tool, not for its revenue.
| Story | What it does there | When | Cost stated | Grade | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| My AskAI | Vector database that stores the pieces of customer content and returns the ones that match a question. | A | Pinecone blog, 14 June 2024: RAG Brag with My AskAI founders, Mike Heap and Alex Rainey | ||
| Chatbase | Vector database that stored the document embeddings at launch, before they moved into Postgres. | replaced by pgvector | B | Supabase customer story, 2026: The consolidation play that took a single founder from zero to 10 million in ARR | |
| SiteGPT | Vector database that stores the crawled website text for retrieval when a visitor asks a question. | C | Starter Story, 8 October 2023: How my AI side project grew to $15K MRR in just a few months | ||
| fastwrite.io | Vector database that stores the uploaded documents so that passages can be found by meaning. | C | fastwrite.io Datenschutzerklärung (privacy policy), version of September 2026 |
Grade A: the tool's maker or a payment processor confirms the use. Grade B: an independent report, or the tool is visible in public code. Grade C: the founder or the company says so.
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