Pinecone Changelog: Hybrid search in one index, BYOC, and VQ-Bench

Hybrid search in Pinecone now runs from one index: dense vectors, sparse vectors, full-text search, and metadata, with integrated inference. Plus: BYOC is generally available, VQ-Bench for vector quantizers, and a cost and usage export API. What's new: Documents API, now with integrated inference: run dense, sparse, full-text, and metadata search from one index, and let Pinecone embed your text fields for you. BYOC is generally available on AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure, and now supports on-demand capacity. Your data stays in your cloud account while Pinecone runs the operations. VQ-Bench: a paper, open-source library, and benchmark for building, evaluating, and comparing vector quantizers in the same context. Cost and usage export API: pull up to a year of Pinecone cost and usage data in the FinOps FOCUS format. Available on the Enterprise plan. What should we bring to Pinecone next? Tell us in the comments. Links: Full-text search and the Documents API: https://docs.pinecone.io/guides/search/full-text-search?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=organic-social&utm_campaign=content_drop_changelog_video_2026_10&utm_content=full_text_search_docs BYOC is generally available: https://www.pinecone.io/blog/byoc-generally-available/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=organic-social&utm_campaign=content_drop_changelog_video_2026_10&utm_content=byoc_ga_blog BYOC on-demand: https://www.pinecone.io/blog/byoc-on-demand/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=organic-social&utm_campaign=content_drop_changelog_video_2026_10&utm_content=byoc_on_demand_blog VQ-Bench: https://vq-bench.com?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=organic-social&utm_campaign=content_drop_changelog_video_2026_10&utm_content=vq_bench_site VQ-Bench on GitHub: https://github.com/pinecone-io/vq-bench?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=organic-social&utm_campaign=content_drop_changelog_video_2026_10&utm_content=vq_bench_github VQ-Bench announcement: https://www.pinecone.io/blog/vq-bench/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=organic-social&utm_campaign=content_drop_changelog_video_2026_10&utm_content=vq_bench_blog #VectorDatabase #HybridSearch #AI #FinOps