Pinecone Alternatives
Open-source alternatives to Pinecone, compared on live data. Pinecone is managed-only — these can all be self-hosted.
| Tool | Stars | PyPI/mo | License | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milvus | 44,805 | 5,919,923 | Apache-2.0 | database |
| FAISS | 40,308 | 17,779,635 | MIT | library |
| Qdrant | 32,389 | 23,963,183 | Apache-2.0 | database |
| Chroma | 28,456 | 13,590,061 | Apache-2.0 | database |
| pgvector | 21,794 | — | NOASSERTION | extension |
| Weaviate | 16,337 | 160,772,415 | BSD-3-Clause | database |
| LanceDB | 10,627 | 7,249,640 | Apache-2.0 | embedded |
| Vespa | 6,959 | 8,505,418 | Apache-2.0 | database |
| Marqo | 5,022 | 48,238 | Apache-2.0 | database |