Section 8.4 - Register entry
DOC-REF: FRC-MKT-FR2634450946
Pinecone
Pinecone Systems, Inc. lists Pinecone on the FedRAMP Marketplace with the status Initial Implementation, at no impact level listed, on the Program path under the 20x process. Package FR2634450946, read from the marketplace feed as of September 28, 2026.
Section A. Register entry
What the marketplace records
- FedRAMP package ID
- FR2634450946
- Cloud service provider
- Pinecone Systems, Inc.
- Certification status
- Initial Implementation
- Impact level
- Not listed
- Certification class
- Not listed
- Authorization path
- Program
- Certification type
- 20x
- Marketplace phase
- Initial Implementation
- Deployment model
- Public Cloud
- Register snapshot
- September 28, 2026
- Service model
- SaaS
- Status date
- September 15, 2026
- Business categories
- Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Management, Development Tools
- SAM.gov UEI
- EHLZAJFML1J5
- Milestones on record
- 1
The marketplace carries Pinecone under package FR2634450946 with 15 recorded fields. Its current status was set on September 15, 2026. No independent assessor is named on the record. No agency authorizations are listed against it in the current feed. It is delivered as SaaS on a public cloud, filed under 3 business categories including Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Management and Development Tools. Its SAM.gov unique entity identifier is EHLZAJFML1J5.
Section B. Milestones
1 entry in the marketplace event log
Most recent first, as recorded by FedRAMP.
| Date | Category | Recorded |
|---|---|---|
| September 15, 2026 | Status Change | Status set to Initial Implementation |
Section C. Cost context
What reaching this stage costs
Our own published ranges for a provider going through this level. Nothing here is a figure this provider has disclosed.
Cost context
No range published for this level
The marketplace lists no impact level here, so no cost range is quoted. Our impact level reference sets out what each baseline costs to reach.
Read the impact level reference / continuous monitoring cost
Path
The marketplace records 105 offerings on the Program path, 63 of them 20x. Our 20x page covers what that model is estimated to cost. FedRAMP 20x cost analysis
20x
This package is on the 20x track. Our 20x page puts an early estimate of $100,000 to $300,000 on a Low or Moderate authorization under 20x against $500,000 to $2,000,000+ on the traditional path. Those are estimates from early pilot data, not observed invoices. 20x cost analysis
Section D. Services in scope
3 services listed inside the assessment boundary
Pinecone Database
Available from October 1, 2021
Managed vector database. Index creation and management, vector upsert and deletion, similarity search and metadata filtering, namespace isolation, and role-based access control via the Pinecone console and API. **Security categorization (FIPS 199):** - Confidentiality: Low - Integrity: Low - Availability: Low - Overall: Low
Pinecone Inference
Available from March 18, 2026
Managed embedding and reranking models, accessible through the Pinecone API, used to turn customer content into vector representations and to reorder search results by relevance. **Security categorization (FIPS 199):** - Confidentiality: Low - Integrity: Low - Availability: Low - Overall: Low
Pinecone Assistant
Available from January 22, 2025
A managed service that answers questions over a customer's own uploaded documents, combining retrieval over their data with a large language model to produce grounded responses. **Security categorization (FIPS 199):** - Confidentiality: Low - Integrity: Low - Availability: Low - Overall: Low
Section G. Nearest entries on the register
Comparable offerings
Scored on impact level, path, status, shared business categories and how close the two entries sit in the register's own timeline.
- DigiCert for Government
DigiCert, Inc.
Initial Implementation, no impact level listed, Program path, 20x.
- SuperFile
SuperGov, Inc
Initial Implementation, no impact level listed, Program path, 20x.
- Alira
Skyward IT Solutions
Initial Implementation, no impact level listed, Program path, 20x.
- MyEvaluations
MyEvaluations.com Inc.
Initial Implementation, no impact level listed, Program path, 20x.
- Leadership Connect
Leadership Connect, Inc.
Initial Implementation, no impact level listed, Program path, 20x.
Section H. Description
As published on the marketplace
The provider's own description of the service, reproduced from the FedRAMP feed without edits.
Pinecone is a fully managed vector database for AI applications. It stores, indexes, and searches high-dimensional vector embeddings to power retrieval for semantic search, recommendation, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workloads. Customers create indexes in a cloud region of their choosing and interact with the service through documented APIs and client SDKs. The service is operated by Pinecone on public cloud infrastructure, with customer data encrypted at rest (AES-256, unique per-customer keys) and in transit (TLS 1.2 minimum).
Next step
What the same authorization would cost you
The worksheet turns an impact level, an existing security posture and an organization size into a line-by-line budget, with the 3PAO fee split out.
Provenance and independence
Source: the FedRAMP Marketplace product feed, produced by the General Services Administration. The feed's own last-change stamp is September 28, 2026; this copy was taken on October 3, 2026.
GSA's disclaimers page states that FedRAMP content about a specific commercial product or service is provided for the information and convenience of the public and “does not constitute endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the General Services Administration”. A listing here is a record of a certification status, not a judgment about the product.
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