Pinecone Alternatives

Apps similar to Pinecone include AnythingLLM, which is free and open source. Other options are Lantern Database, txtai, LanceDB and Marqo. You can choose from more than 10 Vector Databases like Pinecone for self-hosting, the web, Linux, Mac and Windows.

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  1. AnythingLLM icon
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    Open-source privacy-focused chatbot platform allowing unlimited document uploads, multi-user and single-user modes, AI-powered chat with documents, vector database and LLM compatibility, customizable interface, message history, secure desktop deployment, and full user controls.

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
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    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  2. PostgreSQL vector database extension for building AI applications.

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    • Self-Hosted
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  3. txtai icon
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    Embeddings databases are a union of vector indexes (sparse and dense), graph networks and relational databases. This enables vector search with SQL, topic modeling, retrieval augmented generation and more.

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  4. LanceDB icon
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    LanceDB is an open-source database for vector-search built with persistent storage, which greatly simplifies retrieval, filtering and management of embeddings.

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    • Self-Hosted
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  5. Marqo icon
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    Marqo is an AI-native ecommerce search and product discovery platform built for retail brands in fashion, beauty, footwear, and home goods.

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  6. FalkorDB icon
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    A super fast Graph Database uses GraphBLAS under the hood for its sparse adjacency matrix graph representation. Our goal is to provide the best Knowledge Graph for LLM (GraphRAG).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  7. Grafeo icon
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    Grafeo is a pure-Rust, high-performance graph database that can be embedded as a library or run as a standalone database, with optional in-memory or persistent storage. Grafeo supports both LPG and RDF and all major query languages.

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    • Rust
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
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  8. HelixDB icon
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    HelixDB is a database that makes it easy to build all the components needed for AI applications in a single platform.

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    • Online
    • Rust
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Docker
    • Self-Hosted
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  9. Zvec icon
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    Zvec is an open-source, in-process vector database — lightweight, lightning-fast, and designed to embed directly into applications. Built on Proxima (Alibaba's battle-tested vector search engine), it delivers production-grade, low-latency, scalable similarity search with...

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Node.JS
    • JavaScript
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  10. Chroma DB icon
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    Open-source search and retrieval database for AI applications.

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Python
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  11. Qdrant icon
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    Qdrant (read: quadrant) is a vector similarity search engine and vector database. It provides a production-ready service with a convenient API to store, search, and manage points—vectors with an additional payload Qdrant is tailored to extended filtering support.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
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  12. Milvus icon
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    Milvus is an open-source vector database built to power embedding similarity search and AI applications. Milvus makes unstructured data search more accessible, and provides a consistent user experience regardless of the deployment environment.

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    • Linux
    • Docker
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