{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "pinecone", "name": "Pinecone API + MCP", "vendor": "Pinecone", "vendorUrl": "https://www.pinecone.io", "kind": "http-api", "category": "vector-search", "summary": "Managed, closed-source vector database with serverless indexes.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pinecone", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pinecone.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pinecone.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pinecone.json", "repo": "https://github.com/pinecone-io/pinecone-mcp", "license": "proprietary (MCP server Apache-2.0)", "transports": [ "http", "stdio", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.pinecone.io", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@pinecone-database/pinecone" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "pinecone" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@pinecone-database/mcp" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Project API key in the `Api-Key` header, plus `X-Pinecone-Api-Version` to pin the API version. Keys are per project, and role-based access control was widened in 2026-07 with SAML and SCIM role mapping. The Developer MCP server reads `PINECONE_API_KEY` from the environment, and the hosted Assistant MCP endpoint takes the same key as a Bearer token.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Starter is free with no card, 2 GB storage, 2M write units, 1M read units, 1 GB egress and 5 indexes a month, in us-east-1 only. Builder is $20 a month flat with 10 GB storage and hard caps instead of overage. Standard has a $50 a month minimum and a 3-week trial with $300 of credit. Enterprise has a $500 minimum and a 99.95% uptime SLA. Storage $0.33 per GB a month, write units $4 to $4.50 per million on Standard ($6 to $6.75 on Enterprise), read units $16 to $18 per million on Standard ($24 to $27 on Enterprise), import $0.25 per GB, backup $0.10 per GB a month, egress $0.10 per GB over a 100 GB allowance. Embedding from $0.08 per million tokens, reranking $2 per 1,000 requests. Hosted only, there's no free self-hosted edition (https://www.pinecone.io/pricing/).", "priceSummary": "$20 / mo", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402 or per-call payment support in the docs or pricing (checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 9, "popularity": { "githubStars": 71, "npmWeekly": 927707, "pypiWeekly": 970217, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.pinecone.io", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.pinecone.io/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pinecone-io/pinecone-api/refs/heads/main/2026-07/db_data_2026-07.oas.yaml", "capabilities": [ "db.vector", "db.hybrid", "db.fulltext", "db.filters", "db.serverless" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "free-tier", "no-card", "closed-source", "mcp", "llms-txt", "openapi", "python", "typescript", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-09", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 76.4, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 28, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 452, "categoryRank": 1, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 93, "maintenance": 87, "payments": 40, "reliability": 75, "schema": 94, "security": 79, "transparency": 75 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "high", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": -2, "negativeNotes": [ "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)." ], "verdict": "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.", "strengths": [ "OpenAPI files per API version, quarterly versions with at least 12 months of support each", "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", "SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA with a BAA, audit logs and role-scoped API keys", "Free Starter plan with no card" ], "weaknesses": [ "Nine regional incidents between 9 July and 28 September 2026, four lasting more than an hour", "Every MCP database tool asks the model for its provider and model name for analytics, which the README doesn't mention", "The Developer MCP server only works with integrated-embedding indexes and has no read-only mode", "Closed source, with BYOC on Enterprise as the only self-managed option", "Read units, write units, storage and egress are each metered, and Starter stops serving reads at its caps" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send `X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2026-07` on every call. Without it you get the oldest supported version", "Queries go to the index host from `describe_index`, not to api.pinecone.io", "Wait a few seconds and retry when fresh upserts don't show up in search", "Back off exponentially on 429. 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"terms": "https://www.pinecone.io/terms/", "privacy": "https://www.pinecone.io/privacy/", "statusPage": "https://status.pinecone.io", "changelog": "https://docs.pinecone.io/release-notes", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-09-30", "score": 86 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pinecone.json", "live": { "slug": "pinecone", "probe": { "target": "https://api.pinecone.io", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-05T03:17:30.733884233Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 40, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 41, "p95ms24h": 92, "samples24h": 273, "samples30d": 1140, "days": [ { "date": "2026-09-30", "probes": 35, "ok": 35 }, { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 276, "ok": 276 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 38, "ok": 38 } ] }, 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"checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:18:06.567751285Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "pinecone.io", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:05:10.320553533Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.pinecone.io/release-notes", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:43:53.547301589Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-02T15:20:15.909473495Z", "fingerprint": "dbe2b886af2a" }, { "url": "https://docs.pinecone.io/release-notes/2026.md", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:43:55.759270586Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-02T15:20:18.225718539Z", "fingerprint": "eed337dae9b9" }, { "url": "https://www.pinecone.io/pricing/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:51:38.420010854Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-03T15:39:29.335944004Z", "fingerprint": "b277c6900a1f" }, { "url": "https://www.pinecone.io/privacy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:51:40.912574741Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "68c298724ada" }, { "url": "https://www.pinecone.io/terms/", "kind": "terms", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:51:42.742827598Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "32dd0db29edb" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-05T03:19:14.569953831Z" } }, "b": { "slug": "weaviate", "name": "Weaviate API + MCP", "vendor": "Weaviate", "vendorUrl": "https://weaviate.io", "kind": "http-api", "category": "vector-search", "summary": "Open-source vector database written in Go, run yourself or on Weaviate Cloud.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/weaviate", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/weaviate.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/weaviate.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/weaviate.json", "repo": "https://github.com/weaviate/weaviate", "license": "BSD-3-Clause (some parts under the Weaviate License)", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "weaviate-client" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "weaviate-client" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Weaviate Cloud clusters take an API key as a Bearer token, with RBAC roles scoping collections and operations. Self-hosted instances can run with API keys, OIDC or anonymous access. The built-in MCP endpoint uses the same Bearer key and honours RBAC.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Weaviate Cloud Free is $0 with no card, one cluster with 100,000 objects, 1 GB memory, 10 GB disk and one collection. Flex starts at $45 a month pay-as-you-go, billed on vector dimensions (from $0.00465 per million), storage (from $0.12 per GiB) and backups (from $0.029 per GiB). Premium starts at $400 a month on a prepaid contract, shared or dedicated. Weaviate Embeddings from $0.025 per million tokens, and Query Agent $30 a month per organisation with 4,000 requests. Self-hosting the open-source database is free, you pay for your own servers (https://weaviate.io/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$45 / mo", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402 or per-call payment support in the docs or pricing (checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 4, "popularity": { "githubStars": 16859, "npmWeekly": 406164, "pypiWeekly": 2334531, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.weaviate.io/weaviate", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.weaviate.io/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.weaviate.io/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "db.vector", "db.hybrid", "db.fulltext", "db.filters" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "self-hosted", "local", "hosted", "freemium", "free-tier", "no-card", "mcp", "llms-txt", "openapi", "python", "typescript", "read-only-mode", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-01", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 68.2, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 131, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 452, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 92, "maintenance": 90, "payments": 40, "reliability": 35, "schema": 82, "security": 79, "transparency": 71 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Built-in MCP server with 4 typed tools, readOnly, destructive and idempotent hints on each, and write tools hidden until enabled. No public status page or incident history.", "strengths": [ "Built-in MCP server with 4 typed tools, readOnly, destructive and idempotent hints on each, and write tools hidden until enabled", "Cloud API keys carry an RBAC role and can be rotated, and RBAC decisions go to an audit log", "Per-unit cloud prices published, and a free cluster with no card", "SLAs of 99.5% on Flex up to 99.95% on dedicated Premium", "v1.39.8 on 1 October 2026, with patch releases on three supported minors every week or two" ], "weaknesses": [ "No public status page or incident history", "No request limits or 429 guidance published for the database API", "Self-hosted telemetry is on by default, and the docs say it may be shared with third parties to find customers", "The OpenAPI file covers REST only. Search and bulk import lean on gRPC and the client libraries", "On Weaviate Cloud the MCP endpoint is always on and allows writes until someone flips the read-only toggle" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call `weaviate-collections-get-config` first so the model sees property names before it writes a filter", "`weaviate-query-hybrid` defaults `alpha` to 0.75, so lower it for keyword-heavy queries", "Turn on the read-only toggle in Weaviate Cloud before giving an agent the MCP endpoint", "Set object IDs with `generate_uuid5` so a retried import doesn't create duplicates", "Free clusters hold one collection. Use tenants rather than extra collections" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.3", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 68.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 92, "maintenance": 90, "payments": 40, "reliability": 35, "schema": 82, "security": 79, "transparency": 69 }, "provenanceScore": 72 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install weaviate-client", "http": "curl -s \"$WEAVIATE_URL/v1/meta\" -H \"Authorization: Bearer $WEAVIATE_API_KEY\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http weaviate \"$WEAVIATE_URL/v1/mcp\" --header \"Authorization: Bearer $WEAVIATE_API_KEY\"", "config": { "mcpServers": { "weaviate": { "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer ${WEAVIATE_API_KEY}" }, "url": "${WEAVIATE_URL}/v1/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/db.vector", "tool": "https://letme.dev/weaviate" }, "area": "developer", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Flex plan minimum", "unit": "month", "usd": 45, "note": "pay-as-you-go" }, { "item": "Premium plan minimum", "unit": "month", "usd": 400, "note": "prepaid contract" }, { "item": "Storage on Flex", "unit": "gb", "usd": 0.12, "note": "from, per GiB" }, { "item": "Backup on Flex", "unit": "gb", "usd": 0.029, "note": "from, per GiB" }, { "item": "Query Agent", "unit": "month", "usd": 30, "note": "per organisation, 4,000 requests included" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Weaviate B.V.", "domain": "weaviate.io", "domainRegistered": "2022-01-30", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://weaviate.io/service/weaviate-cloud-agreement", "privacy": "https://weaviate.io/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://docs.weaviate.io/weaviate/release-notes", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-01", "notes": [ "Weaviate Cloud clusters are served from weaviate.cloud subdomains, a second Weaviate domain", "status.weaviate.io doesn't resolve, and status.weaviate.cloud is titled Weaviate Enterprise Status but shows no public components or incidents, so no status page is listed" ], "score": 72 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/weaviate.json", "live": { "slug": "weaviate", "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "weaviate/weaviate", "version": "v1.39.8", "released": "2026-10-01", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:43:58.726857238Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "weaviate-client", "version": "3.14.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:43:57.79951805Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "weaviate-client", "version": "4.23.1", "released": "2026-09-07", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:43:57.688754343Z" } ], "githubStars": 16864, "npmWeekly": 414077, "pypiWeekly": 1458935, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://weaviate.io/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:56.832670491Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.weaviate.io/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:18:22.447314466Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "weaviate.io", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:09:39.916758632Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.weaviate.io/weaviate/release-notes", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:44:14.800946796Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "55bfaa2c1cca" }, { "url": "https://weaviate.io/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:48:48.141151382Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-03T15:36:44.348306002Z", "fingerprint": "a02720b950fd" }, { "url": "https://weaviate.io/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:48:50.39279699Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "3d44aa9f6157" }, { "url": "https://weaviate.io/service/weaviate-cloud-agreement", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:48:52.7044723Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "dc33f8756d3d" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T16:43:58.726857238Z" } }, "summary": "Pinecone API + MCP has a score of 76.4 (BB) against Weaviate API + MCP's 68.2 (B). Both do db vector. The largest gap is reliability, 40 points." }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pinecone-vs-weaviate", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pinecone-vs-weaviate.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pinecone-vs-weaviate.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pinecone-vs-weaviate.min.md" }, "markdown": "Pinecone API + MCP has a score of 76.4 (BB) against Weaviate API + MCP's 68.2 (B). Both do db vector. The largest gap is reliability, 40 points.\n\n- Pinecone API + MCP: grade BB, 76.4/100, rank #28 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pinecone.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pinecone.json\n- Weaviate API + MCP: grade B, 68.2/100, rank #131 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/weaviate.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/weaviate.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Pinecone API + MCP for reliability (+40), schema \u0026 documentation (+12).\n\nPick Weaviate API + MCP for nothing in particular (no category where it leads by five points or more).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Pinecone API + MCP | Weaviate API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 75 | 35 | Pinecone API + MCP +40 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 94 | 82 | Pinecone API + MCP +12 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 93 | 92 | Pinecone API + MCP +1 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 79 | 79 | even |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 40 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 87 | 90 | Weaviate API + MCP +3 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 71 | Pinecone API + MCP +4 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **76.4 · BB** | **68.2 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Pinecone API + MCP | Weaviate API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Pinecone | Weaviate |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.pinecone.io` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP, stdio, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | proprietary (MCP server Apache-2.0) | BSD-3-Clause (some parts under the Weaviate License) |\n| Tools exposed | 9 | 4 |\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 | 2026-10-01 |\n| Popularity | 71 stars, 928k npm/wk, 970k PyPI/wk | 17k stars, 406k npm/wk, 2.3M PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (8) | 3.5/5 (2) |\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**Weaviate API + MCP.** Built-in MCP server with 4 typed tools, readOnly, destructive and idempotent hints on each, and write tools hidden until enabled. No public status page or incident history.\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### Weaviate API + MCP\n\n1. Call `weaviate-collections-get-config` first so the model sees property names before it writes a filter\n2. `weaviate-query-hybrid` defaults `alpha` to 0.75, so lower it for keyword-heavy queries\n3. Turn on the read-only toggle in Weaviate Cloud before giving an agent the MCP endpoint\n4. Set object IDs with `generate_uuid5` so a retried import doesn't create duplicates\n5. Free clusters hold one collection. 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