---
title: "Pinecone Local reached end of life: 2026-10-07 | Harbyn"
description: "Pinecone Local reached end of life, announced Oct 7, 2026."
canonical: "https://harbyn.com/changes/pinecone/2026-10-07-pinecone-local-reached-end-of-life"
last-updated: 2026-10-07
---

# Pinecone Local reached end of life

Markdown version of <https://harbyn.com/changes/pinecone/2026-10-07-pinecone-local-reached-end-of-life>.

Retirement - Pinecone. medium severity. In effect.

Pinecone Local, the in-memory Docker emulator for local development and testing, has reached end of life and is no longer available; its documentation was removed. Pinecone recommends using a separate project in a Pinecone account for development and testing.

## Facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Vendor | [Pinecone](https://harbyn.com/vendors/pinecone.md) |
| Kind | Retirement |
| Severity | medium |
| Status | In effect |
| Announced | Oct 7, 2026 |
| Added to Harbyn | Oct 7, 2026 |
| Lead time | No dated deadline |
| Review | Reviewed by a person, extracted by a model |

## Find it in your code

```sh
npx harbyn scan
```

This change names no identifier the scanner can match line by line, so the scan tells you whether your repository uses Pinecone, from its packages and API hosts. Nothing leaves your machine.

## Sources

Where this event comes from: the page we read, when we read it, and the hash of that snapshot.

- <https://docs.pinecone.io/release-notes> (changelog, fetched 2026-10-07 23:09 UTC, sha256 `dbb666de304ef59d125f308fefb8fa1291061e8413bb1eea4799ee57169be8ef`)

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