+Twice the included embedding tokens through December 31
From November 4 through December 31, 2026, Starter and Builder organizations get twice the included tokens on every embedding model. Starter includes 10,000,000 tokens per month per model (5,000,000 before the promotion), and Builder includes 20,000,000 (10,000,000 before).
+Document indexes can now embed text with three more hosted models: gemini-embedding-2 from Google, and text-embedding-3-small and text-embedding-3-large from OpenAI. Each takes any dimension in a range, up to 3,072, and embeds up to 8,192 tokens per value.
Terraform Provider v5.0.0 major version removes pod-based index creation support
Users cannot create new pod-based indexes with v5.0.0. Requires migration steps for affected configurations. Breaking change requiring upgrade planning.
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+This is a major version. New pod-based indexes can't be created, and a few configurations that earlier versions accepted are now rejected at plan time.
+Cross-region transfer fee for restores
Restoring a backup into a different region now incurs a cross-region transfer fee on top of the standard restore price. The fee is charged per GB and depends on the cloud provider and the backup's region. Restoring into the same region as the backup is billed as before.The fee appears on your invoice as Serverless Cross-Region Transfer.
寻求 Pinecone Local 替代方案的开发者现在明确建议使用 API 模拟，而无需创建单独的项目账户。
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−Pinecone Local, the in-memory Docker emulator for local development and testing, has reached end of life and is no longer available. Its documentation has been removed.To develop and test your applications, use a separate project in your Pinecone account.
+Pinecone Local, the in-memory Docker emulator for local development and testing, has reached end of life and is no longer available. Its documentation has been removed.To develop and test your applications, use a separate project in your Pinecone account. To test your client code without an account, mock the Pinecone API instead.
使用 Pinecone Local 进行本地开发和测试的开发者必须改为使用单独的 Pinecone 项目。这会影响本地开发和自动化测试的开发工作流。
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−Pinecone Local (local development emulator) — Local development
Automated testing with Pinecone Local — Automated testing
+End of life: Pinecone Local
Pinecone Local, the in-memory Docker emulator for local development and testing, has reached end of life and is no longer available. Its documentation has been removed.To develop and test your applications, use a separate project in your Pinecone account.
Pinecone Go SDK v7.0.0 发布，支持基于 schema 的文档索引和 Documents API
Go SDK 用户必须升级并迁移代码，因为有破坏性更改，包括模块路径变更、移除基于 pod 的索引创建、枚举常量前缀添加和 API 参数变更。
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+Released v7.0.0 of the Pinecone Go SDK. This version uses the latest stable API version, 2026-07, and adds support for schema-based document indexes and the Documents API, which brings full-text search to the Go SDK.
+Namespace aliases
A namespace alias is a stable, repointable name that points at a namespace. Your application reads through the alias, and you can swap the data it reads by atomically repointing the alias to a different namespace in the same index, with no redeploy. Manage aliases through the REST API on version 2026-07 or later.
+Gemini 2.5 Pro and o4-mini deprecations for Assistant
Google has deprecated the Gemini 2.5 Pro model, and OpenAI has deprecated o4-mini. Pinecone Assistant automatically routes all chat requests that specify gemini-2.5-pro to Gemini 3.5 Flash, and all chat requests that specify o4-mini to GPT-5, at the same price.
+Higher namespace limit on the Enterprise plan
The Enterprise limit for namespaces per serverless index is now 1,000,000. Pinecone can accommodate more for specific use cases. Contact Support to request a higher limit.
+General availability: Full-text search and the Documents API
Full-text search is now generally available on API version 2026-07, built on the new Documents API.Create schema-based document indexes that combine full-text (BM25), dense-vector, and sparse-vector ranking fields in a single index.
新的 Standard 和 Enterprise 客户将不再获得一次性 $250 批量导入积分，对象存储的所有导入将按 $0.25/GB 计费。
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+Bulk import credit is no longer offered
New Standard and Enterprise subscriptions no longer receive the one-time $250 bulk import credit (1 TB). Imports from object storage are billed at the standard $0.25/GB rate.
−Through July 31, 2026: cohere-rerank-3.5 continues to serve requests as before.
August 1, 2026: requests to cohere-rerank-3.5 are automatically served by cohere-rerank-4-fast.
+Through August 30, 2026: cohere-rerank-3.5 continues to serve requests as before.
August 31, 2026: requests to cohere-rerank-3.5 are automatically served by cohere-rerank-4-fast.
+Index fullness metrics for dedicated read nodes
Indexes that use dedicated read nodes now emit index fullness as time-series metrics. Monitor fullness over time via the Prometheus or Datadog integration.
−2026-08-11
Search
New guide: reciprocal rank fusion (RRF)
Added a guide on reciprocal rank fusion, a client-side method for combining the results of separate searches (for example, full-text and semantic) into one ranking without normalizing scores. RRF fuses rankings rather than raw scores, so it needs no per-signal weighting.
+New guide: reciprocal rank fusion (RRF)
Added a guide on reciprocal rank fusion, a client-side method for combining the results of separate searches (for example, full-text and semantic) into one ranking without normalizing scores. RRF fuses rankings rather than raw scores, so it needs no per-signal weighting.
+Released Pinecone Terraform Provider v4.0.0
Released v4.0.0 of the Terraform Provider for Pinecone. This version adds resources for managing service accounts, role bindings, organization invites, and removing organization members. It also adds data sources for reading existing indexes, collections, projects, service accounts, role bindings, invites, and users, and terraform import support for every resource.
+Fuzzy matching (typo tolerance) — In a query_string search, append ~ to a term to match indexed terms within a small edit distance: body:(compxter~1) matches computer. Use term~ for an automatic distance based on term length, or term~N for a fixed distance (N is 0–2). Fuzzy works on existing indexes with no reindex.
现有角色分配会自动迁移。组织级 User 角色现为 Organization manager，项目级 User 角色现为 Project manager。权限保持不变。
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+If you used the previous role model, the User role has been renamed to Manager: the organization-level User role is now Organization manager, and the project-level User role is now Project manager. This is a name change only—permissions are unchanged and existing assignments are migrated automatically.