Is Pinecone down right now? We check Pinecone's official status page as you arrive, then show any outage, its 90-day uptime and what to use instead.
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Uptime and history
Pinecone's uptime over the last 90 days is 100%, because it rated none of its problems a major outage. Smaller problems were open for 7 h 55 min in that time.
Not counted above: 5 problems that affected only one region or a few customers. They're listed under recent problems.
With 4 other hosted databases over the last 90 days, by what each reports on its own status page.
How well Pinecone keeps people informed when something goes wrong.
Posting small problems openly is a good sign. An app that reports more problems isn't necessarily less reliable than one that reports fewer.
Recent
[Pod-Based Indexes] Stalled control plane operations.
[Inference] 5xx errors on some llama-text-embed-v2 requests
[SERVERLESS][GCP][us-central1] Newly created indexes failing to initialize
[Pods][AWS][us-east-1] Write failures and high latency
[Serverless][AWS][eu-west-1] 5xx on read requests
[Serverless][AWS][us-west-2] 5xx errors on the readpath
5xx errors on some control plane operations
[SERVERLESS][GCP][us-central1] 5xx errors on some read and write requests
Parts
Problem counts cover Pinecone's record since August 2025. One problem can hit several parts.
The record
Over the last 90 days Pinecone ranks 3rd of the 5 hosted databases we can rank, with 100% uptime and a reported problem open for 7 h 55 min.
Pinecone has reported 13 problems since August 2025, about 1 a month. It didn't rate any of them as a major outage.
| Last 90 days | 3 problems, up from 1 in the 90 days before |
|---|---|
| Typical time to fix | 2 h 14 min |
| Longest problem | 8 h 23 min, starting 18 Jun 2026: Some initial queries to infrequently read namespaces incorrectly returning empty results |
| Last problem | 2 Nov 2026: [Pod-Based Indexes] Stalled control plane operations. (3 h 19 min) |
| Longest quiet spell | 123 days without a problem, from 2 Jan 2026 to 6 May 2026 |
| Part hit most | Console, in 6 of 13 problems, then Assistant, in 3 |
| Busiest month | October 2025, with 3 problems |
| Left out of these figures | 38 problems in one region or for a few customers |
From Pinecone's own status page, as far back as we can read it in full. Rankings go by uptime, then time free of reported problems, then problems per month. A low count can mean few problems or few posts.
Alternatives
Other apps that do the same job, ranked by their own record over the last 90 days.
| App | Now | Problems, last 90 days | Time with problems | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upstash | Working normally | 1 | 0 min | Visit Upstash |
| PlanetScale | Working normally | 4 | 4 h 6 min | Visit PlanetScale |
| Turso | Working normally | 3 | 16 h 44 min | Visit Turso |
| MongoDB Atlas | Working normally | 11 | 2 days 10 h | Visit MongoDB Atlas |
| Supabase | Working normally | 29* | 16 days 10 h | Visit Supabase |
Ranked by their own reported problems over the last 90 days. * The record for this app is still filling in.
Safety
Facts from its own public records, checked every day.
Checked 2 Nov 2026 from pinecone.io's public records. Breach data from Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0).
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A vector database used to build AI search and assistants.
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