# Pinecone Developer MCP
> Local Pinecone developer MCP provides Pinecone documentation search, index discovery and configuration, integrated-inference record upsert and search, cascading search, and reranking.
Canonical: https://www.mcpfolio.com/servers/pinecone-developer-vector-database
Last updated: 2026-10-28
## Catalog record

- Publisher: Pinecone
- Categories: development, productivity, search

## Website

https://docs.pinecone.io/guides/operations/mcp-server

## Repository

https://github.com/pinecone-io/pinecone-mcp

## Transports

stdio

## Authentication

Run `@pinecone-database/mcp` locally; Pinecone API key is required for project operations, while documentation search works without a key.

## Tools

- **search-docs**: Pinecone MCP operation: search docs.
- **list-indexes**: Pinecone MCP operation: list indexes.
- **describe-index**: Pinecone MCP operation: describe index.
- **describe-index-stats**: Pinecone MCP operation: describe index stats.
- **create-index-for-model**: Pinecone MCP operation: create index for model.
- **upsert-records**: Pinecone MCP operation: upsert records.
- **search-records**: Pinecone MCP operation: search records.
- **cascading-search**: Pinecone MCP operation: cascading search.
- **rerank-documents**: Pinecone MCP operation: rerank documents.

## Sources

- [official_tool_reference](https://docs.pinecone.io/guides/operations/mcp-server)
- [official_documentation_or_source](https://github.com/pinecone-io/pinecone-mcp)

## Setup

Use the interactive setup panel on [the detail page](https://www.mcpfolio.com/servers/pinecone-developer-vector-database) to view instructions for each supported client.