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Do AI agents pick Pinecone?

How often agents choose Pinecone when a developer needs vector database — measured across Claude, GPT, Gemini.

Pinecone

#1 of 5 vector db
30%Pick Rate
95% CI 24%37%

When developers ask an AI agent for vector db, Pinecone is picked 30% of the time — ranking #1 of 5 measured across Claude, GPT, Gemini.

Picked 30% Named, not picked 44% Never surfaced 26%

Top pick in the category. 🟢

Awareness

0 docs in FineWeb (10BT sample) · 274 URLs in Common Crawl

In the raw web crawl, but thin in the filtered corpus models actually train on — an awareness gap at the source.

AdoptionDid the pick convert to installs? Public Adoption = npm downloads of your packages. The proof half of the funnel.

2.5M installs / month ▼ 3% MoM

Installs are roughly flat month over month.

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About Pinecone

A managed vector database for storing and searching high-dimensional embeddings in production AI applications.

Pinecone lets developers store, query, and manage high-dimensional vectors with metadata filtering, making it suited for use cases like semantic search, recommendation systems, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). It offers both serverless indexes that scale automatically and pod-based indexes for dedicated resources, along with built-in embedding and reranking models so you can either bring your own vectors or let Pinecone handle embedding generation.

Where to start

Sign up for an account to get an API key from the Pinecone console, then use the TypeScript SDK (server-side only) to create an index, upsert vectors, and run your first query.

Install

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