Pinecone Developer MCP
Official Pinecone MCP for developer workflows. Lets coding assistants search Pinecone documentation, list and configure indexes, generate code informed by index data, and upsert/query records during dev iteration. Apache-2.0, npm-distributed as @pinecone-database/mcp.
“Official Pinecone MCP for developer workflows. Star count is low (65) because Pinecone shipped this as a developer-experience tool, focused on internal workflows over community engagement. The editorial weight comes from official vendor signal: this is the canonical Pinecone agent-integration path, documented in the Pinecone docs at docs.pinecone.io/guides/operations/mcp-server. Slow development cadence (0 commits in the last 30 days, two releases total) reflects a stable API surface in maintenance mode. Designed for coding assistants working with Pinecone projects: search Pinecone documentation, list and configure indexes, generate code informed by index data, and upsert/query records during dev iteration. Limitation: only indexes with integrated inference are supported; standalone vector search and serverless indexes outside the integrated-inference family are out of scope. Pinecone also offers a separate pinecone-io/assistant-mcp for knowledge-base RAG workflows; this is the developer/admin counterpart.”
INSTALL THIS SERVER
{
"mcpServers": {
"pinecone": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@pinecone-database/mcp"
],
"env": {
"PINECONE_API_KEY": "<your-pinecone-api-key>"
}
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"pinecone": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@pinecone-database/mcp"
],
"env": {
"PINECONE_API_KEY": "<your-pinecone-api-key>"
}
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"pinecone": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@pinecone-database/mcp"
],
"env": {
"PINECONE_API_KEY": "<your-pinecone-api-key>"
}
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"pinecone": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@pinecone-database/mcp"
],
"env": {
"PINECONE_API_KEY": "<your-pinecone-api-key>"
}
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"pinecone": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@pinecone-database/mcp"
],
"env": {
"PINECONE_API_KEY": "<your-pinecone-api-key>"
}
}
}
}
9 SELECTED TOOLS
OUR ASSESSMENT
Official Pinecone developer MCP. Apache-2.0 licensed, distributed via npm as @pinecone-database/mcp. 65 GitHub stars, 20 forks. Latest release v0.2.1 (February 2026). 9 tools covering documentation search, index management, record operations, and reranking.
- Official pinecone-io GitHub org.
- Apache-2.0 license.
- npm distribution as @pinecone-database/mcp.
- Documentation search built in (search-docs tool grounds answers in Pinecone docs).
- Cascading search across multiple indexes with deduplication and reranking.
- Documented in the Pinecone official docs.
- Gemini CLI extension format supported.
- 65 stars and slow development cadence; treat as a developer tool with stable API surface.
- Only indexes with integrated inference supported. Standalone vector search and serverless indexes outside the integrated-inference family are excluded.
- Two releases shipped since launch (v0.2.0, v0.2.1).
PINECONE_API_KEY env var holds the credential, scoped at the Pinecone project level. With no API key the server functions for documentation search alone; index management and data queries require the key. For shared dev environments, scope the API key to a non-production Pinecone project to avoid accidental writes against real data.
Developers building agents on top of Pinecone, teams wanting Pinecone documentation searchable from inside their coding assistant, and iterative index configuration and upsert/query testing during development.
TECHNICAL DETAILS
RECORDED ADOPTION METRICS
Saved directory snapshots. Record last checked APR 29, 2026. The review date above does not refresh these figures.
// Recorded note65 stars; the editorial weight is the official pinecone-io org placement plus documentation in the Pinecone official docs.
// Recorded noteFourth-ranked in ai-ml. Tier 2 with honest framing: pair with Qdrant for evaluation; pick this when the team is already on Pinecone.
SOURCES & RECORDED CHECKS
These are the directory listings and check details held in this record. Client compatibility, directory listings and installation testing are separate signals. Recorded client names describe the scope of a check; they do not establish a security assessment or a recurring test schedule.
The same server, 5 different lenses. We reconcile these signals into our editorial score, which is why our number sometimes diverges from a directory-aggregate star count.
| Source | Their rating | Their star count | Their downloads | Last synced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AutomationSwitch This page | 3.8editorial | 65 | — | APR 29, 2026 |
| PulseMCP | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | APR 29, 2026 |
| MCP.so | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | APR 29, 2026 |
| Glama | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | APR 29, 2026 |
| Smithery | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | APR 29, 2026 |
| Official MCP Registry | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | APR 29, 2026 |
// Counts are directory-reported; we don't adjust them. Discrepancies usually come from different snapshot times or star-caching.
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