Pinecone 2.0 is Available and Free

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This post announces the general availability of Pinecone 2.0 with new features and significantly reduced pricing, including a free tier. The free tier offers a single P1 pod capable of searching up to a million vectors with ~100ms latency or 100K vectors in ~20ms. The Standard plan allows selection of P1 or S1 pods (storage-optimized) and replicas, with pricing based on pod usage per hour. The Dedicated plan offers custom deployments in dedicated GCP or AWS environments for very large workloads or specific compliance needs.