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          "Since MCP server v0.3.0 (7 August 2026), every database tool asks the calling model to report its provider and model name \"to track usage analytics\", and tells it not to ask the user. The values go to Pinecone with the API calls. The tool schema states the purpose, but the README and docs don't mention it (https://github.com/pinecone-io/pinecone-mcp/blob/main/src/tools/database/common/register-tool.ts)."
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          "Published per-namespace and per-index rate limits, 429 responses and backoff guidance",
          "MCP tool descriptions say when a tool will fail, and every tool carries readOnly or destructive hints",
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      "summary": "Open-source vector database written in Rust, run yourself or on Qdrant Cloud.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qdrant",
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          "Database keys can be read-only, limited to chosen collections and expire after 90 days by default",
          "429 responses carry `Retry-After` in seconds, and `wait=true` makes writes read-your-own-write",
          "Published SLAs from 99.5% on Free and Standard to 99.95% with multi-AZ",
          "OpenAPI file in the repo, llms.txt over 547 Markdown pages, clients in six languages",
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          "No per-unit rate card for Qdrant Cloud, only a calculator",
          "Self-hosted builds send usage statistics by default until you opt out",
          "474 open issues on the server repo, including a batch of July bug reports",
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          "Pass `wait=true` on upserts when the next step reads its own writes",
          "On 429, wait for the `Retry-After` seconds before retrying",
          "Set `with_vector=false` unless the task needs vectors, since they dominate response size"
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qdrant.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/qdrant.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Pinecone API + MCP for schema \u0026 documentation (+7), agent ergonomics (+6), payments \u0026 pricing (+10).\n\nPick Qdrant API + MCP for reliability (+5), transparency \u0026 trust (+9).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Pinecone API + MCP | Qdrant API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 75 | 80 | Qdrant API + MCP +5 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 94 | 87 | Pinecone API + MCP +7 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 93 | 87 | Pinecone API + MCP +6 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 79 | 83 | Qdrant API + MCP +4 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 30 | Pinecone API + MCP +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 87 | 85 | Pinecone API + MCP +2 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 84 | Qdrant API + MCP +9 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | -2 | |\n| **Total** | | **76.4 · BB** | **75.3 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Pinecone API + MCP | Qdrant API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Pinecone | Qdrant |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.pinecone.io` | `https://api.cloud.qdrant.io` |\n| Transports | HTTP, stdio, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, stdio, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | proprietary (MCP server Apache-2.0) | Apache-2.0 |\n| Tools exposed | 9 | 2 |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-09-09 | 2026-09-16 |\n| Popularity | 71 stars, 928k npm/wk, 970k PyPI/wk | 35k stars, 1.1M npm/wk, 3M PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (8) | 3.6/5 (8) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Pinecone API + MCP.** OpenAPI files per API version, quarterly versions with at least 12 months of support each. Nine regional incidents between 9 July and 28 September 2026, four lasting more than an hour.\n\n**Qdrant API + MCP.** Database keys can be read-only, limited to chosen collections and expire after 90 days by default. The MCP server has 2 tools, can't manage collections or run filtered queries, and last released on 10 December 2025.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Pinecone API + MCP\n\n1. Send `X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2026-07` on every call. Without it you get the oldest supported version\n2. Queries go to the index host from `describe_index`, not to api.pinecone.io\n3. Wait a few seconds and retry when fresh upserts don't show up in search\n4. Back off exponentially on 429. There's no `Retry-After` header\n5. Starter blocks reads once egress or read units run out for the month, so a failing agent may just be out of quota\n\n### Qdrant API + MCP\n\n1. Create payload indexes on the fields you filter on, or filtered search slows on large collections\n2. Use `/points/query` with `prefetch` to fuse dense and BM25 results\n3. Pass `wait=true` on upserts when the next step reads its own writes\n4. On 429, wait for the `Retry-After` seconds before retrying\n5. 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