Pinecone Introduces Dedicated Read Nodes for Enhanced Query Performance in Standard and Enterprise Plans
What changed
Dedicated plan description updated from 'Bring-your-own-cloud (BYOC)' to 'Deploy Pinecone to your private cloud environment'
Document Limit metric added to Assistant section: 100 for Starter plan, 10,000/assistant for Standard and Enterprise plans
Dedicated Read Nodes (DRN) added to Standard and Enterprise plans - exclusive infrastructure for queries with provisioned nodes reserved for indexes
DRN product section added to 'Explore products' - Dedicated Read Nodes with exclusive infrastructure for queries, no noisy neighbors, no shared queues, no read rate limits
Plan renamed from 'Dedicated' to 'Bring your own cloud'
Product renamed from 'Pinecone Serverless' to 'Pinecone Database On-Demand'
Before and after
Oct 4, 2025 vs Jan 2, 2026Dedicated plan description updated from 'Bring-your-own-cloud (BYOC)' to 'Deploy Pinecone to your private cloud environment'
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