Typeform vs Pinecone
Conversational forms that feel human — dominant brand in online forms
vs. Managed vector database for AI — RAG, semantic search, recommendations
Pricing tiers
Typeform
Free
$0. Unlimited forms, only 10 responses/mo, Typeform branding, 3 questions/form max on some plans.
Free
Basic
$25/mo. 100 responses/mo. Remove branding. Unlimited questions.
$25/mo
Plus
$50/mo. 1,000 responses/mo. Custom domain, hidden fields, logic jumps.
$50/mo
Business
$83/mo. 10,000 responses/mo. Priority support, advanced analytics.
$83/mo
Enterprise
Custom. SSO, dedicated success manager, HIPAA, large response volumes.
Custom
Pinecone
Starter (Free)
2 GB storage, 2M write units/mo, 1M read units/mo, up to 5 indexes. us-east-1 AWS only.
Free
Standard
$50/month minimum. Unlimited storage ($0.33/GB/mo) + writes ($4-4.50/M) + reads ($16-18/M). 20 indexes/project. Multi-region, multi-cloud.
$50/mo
HIPAA Add-on
$190/month add-on for HIPAA-eligible workloads.
$190/mo
Enterprise
$500/month minimum. Higher per-unit rates for dedicated infra + SLA. 200 indexes.
$500/mo
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing free on Typeform vs starter on Pinecone.
| Metric | Typeform | Pinecone |
|---|---|---|
| No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers. | ||
Features
Typeform · 14 features
- 30+ Question Types — Video, rating, payment, choice, etc.
- Analytics — Completion rate, drop-off, by device.
- Calculations — Score + formula fields.
- Conversational Flow — One question at a time.
- Custom Domain — forms.yourbrand.com.
- Embed Options — Inline, popup, side tab, popover, slider.
- Hidden Fields — Inject params from URL/app.
- Logic Jumps — Branching logic (Plus+).
- OAuth (Typeform Connect) — Build apps that access user forms.
- Payments (Stripe) — Paid orders/donations.
- REST API — Manage forms + fetch responses.
- Template Library — 3,000+ templates.
- VideoAsk (separate product) — Async video Q&A.
- Webhooks — Real-time submission events.
Pinecone · 13 features
- Backups + PITR — Automated + manual backups.
- HIPAA Eligible — BAA available via add-on.
- Metadata Filtering — Filter vectors on metadata at query time.
- Monitoring — Metrics endpoint, export to Datadog/Prometheus.
- Namespaces — Multi-tenancy inside an index. Isolate vectors per customer.
- Pinecone Assistant — RAG-as-a-service: upload docs → get a ready chat endpoint.
- Pinecone Inference — Hosted embedding models (multilingual-e5, llama-text-embed-v2, etc.) inside data…
- Pod-Based Indexes — Dedicated pods (p1, s1, p2) for consistent low-latency workloads.
- Private Networking — AWS PrivateLink / VPC peering on Enterprise.
- RBAC — Per-project + per-API-key roles.
- Rerank (Cohere-backed) — Optional reranker on top of vector search.
- Serverless Indexes — Pay per use. No provisioning. Auto-scales.
- Sparse-Dense Vectors — Hybrid search: sparse (keyword) + dense (semantic) together.
Developer interfaces
| Kind | Typeform | Pinecone |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | — | Pinecone CLI |
| SDK | @typeform/embed | go-pinecone, @pinecone-database/pinecone, pinecone-java-client, Pinecone.NET, pinecone (Python) |
| REST | Responses API, Typeform Data API | Data Plane (per-index), Pinecone Control Plane |
| MCP | — | Pinecone MCP |
| OTHER | Typeform Builder, Typeform Connect, Typeform Webhooks | — |
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