How to get started with Pinecone on Zapier

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Updated at August 20th, 2025

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Prerequisites Connect Pinecone to Zapier About Pinecone's app Triggers, searches, and actions Limitations Templates Additional Pinecone resources

Pinecone and Zapier connect to automate vector database workflows. You can trigger actions when index status changes and add records or search data.

Prerequisites

To use the Pinecone app on Zapier, you must have:

A Pinecone account (free Starter plan or any paid plan).
A Pinecone API key generated from the Pinecone console.
- For users on Starter plan: API key permissions are fixed to "All" and cannot be customized.
At least one Pinecone index created in your project.

To create an app connection to Pinecone on Zapier:

Your Pinecone account is now successfully connected to Zapier.

Triggers

Index Status Change - Triggers when the status of any Pinecone index changes. (Polling - Zapier checks for new data every 15 min on the Free plan)

Searches

Advanced: Describe Index Stats - For power users: Returns detailed statistics for a Pinecone index. Not needed for most Zapier workflows.
List Indexes - Lists all Pinecone indexes in your project.
Advanced: List Records - For power users: Lists all records in a Pinecone index. Not needed for most Zapier workflows.
Advanced: Describe Index - For power users: Returns detailed configuration and status for a Pinecone index. Not needed for most Zapier workflows.
Advanced: Describe Namespace - For power users: Returns detailed information about a Pinecone namespace. Not needed for most Zapier workflows.
List Namespaces - Lists all namespaces in a Pinecone index.
Search Records - Searches for records in a Pinecone index using a text query.

Actions

Configure Index - Configures a Pinecone index (e.g., pod type, replicas, deletion protection, tags).
Delete Index - Deletes a Pinecone index.
Delete Record - Deletes a record (vector) from Pinecone by ID.
API Request (Beta) - This is an advanced action which makes a raw HTTP request that includes this integration's authentication.
Add Record - Embeds a record and upserts it to Pinecone in one step.
Create Index - Creates a new Pinecone index with specified configuration.
Delete Namespace - Deletes all vectors in a Pinecone namespace.
Update Record - Updates the text and/or metadata for a record in Pinecone.

Rate limits vary by pricing plan. Starter plan has 1,000,000 read units per month and 2,000,000 write units per month limits, while Standard and Enterprise plans have unlimited monthly limits.
Learn more about the known limitations and feature restrictions in Pinecone, including eventual consistency, and supported data types.