Search overview

This section of the documentation shows you the different ways to search your data in Pinecone.

Search types

• Semantic search
• Lexical search
• Hybrid search

Optimization

• Filter by metadata
• Rerank results
• Parallel queries

Limits

Metric	Limit
Max top_k value	10,000
Max result size	4MB

The query result size is affected by the dimension of the dense vectors and whether or not dense vector values and metadata are included in the result.

If a query fails due to exceeding the 4MB result size limit, choose a lower top_k value, or use include_metadata=False or include_values=False to exclude metadata or values from the result.

Cost

• To understand how cost is calculated for queries, see Understanding cost.
• For up-to-date pricing information, see Pricing.

Data freshness

Pinecone is eventually consistent, so there can be a slight delay before new or changed records are visible to queries. You can view index stats to check data freshness.