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AI's #1 pick for Vector databases Pinecone

This week's Models Poll: Pinecone is the #1 Vector databases pick — first choice in 32% of AI recommendations (Jun 2026).

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32% of first picks June 28, 2026
29.9
Concentration (HHI)
Top 3 capture 52% of first picks
50
Consensus score
partial agreement
14
Vendors named
across 3 models

Rankings by Share of Answer

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Share of Answer = how often a vendor is the model's single first pick, pooled across all models and questions. Whiskers show the Wilson 95% interval.

# vs last Vendor Share of Answer Considered AnthropicGoogleOpenAI
1 — Pinecone
32%
48% 43% 54% ·
2 ↑1 Milvus
11%
32% 18% 17% ·
3 ↑2 Pgvector
8%
9% 13% 13% ·
4 — Qdrant
7%
40% 7% 14% ·
5 ↓3 Weaviate
6%
55% 15% 3% ·
6 new Chroma
2%
6% 5% · ·
7 new Elasticsearch
0%
5% · · ·
8 new Mongodb Atlas
0%
4% · · ·
9 new Supabase
0%
3% · · ·
10 new Vespa
0%
3% · · ·
11 new Pgai
0%
1% · · ·
12 new Faiss
0%
0% · · ·
14 new Redis
0%
0% · · ·

Per-model cells = that model's Share of Answer for the vendor. Darker = picked more often. · = 0% (evaluated, never first-picked by that model).

Rankings over time

Top-5 Share of Answer across 4 weekly snapshots. Rows sorted by latest rank.

Vendor Jun 13 Jun 16 Jun 21 Jun 28 Trend
Qdrant 25% 20% 15% 7% -18%
Pinecone 25% 28% 34% 32% +7%
Weaviate 16% 17% 18% 6% -10%
Pgvector 13% 15% 13% 8% -5%
Milvus 10% 17% 17% 11% +1%

No-pick rate by model

How often each model refuses to name a specific vendor or gives no concrete recommendation.

Claude Haiku 4.5
0%
refused / no pick
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
0%
refused / no pick
GPT-5.5
100%
refused / no pick
Snapshots: 2026-06-282026-06-212026-06-162026-06-142026-06-132026-06-11 · methodology
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