Understanding projects

A Pinecone project belongs to an organization and contains a number of indexes and users. Only a user who belongs to the project can access the indexes in that project. Each project also has at least one project owner.

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Project environments

You choose a cloud environment for each index in a project. This makes it easy to manage related resources across environments and use the same API key to access them.

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Project roles

When you invite a member to a project, you assign a project role that determines their permissions within the Pinecone console. For more details, see Manage project members.

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API keys

Each Pinecone project has one or more API keys. In order to make calls to the Pinecone API, you must provide a valid API key for the relevant Pinecone project.

For more information, see Manage API keys.

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Project IDs

Each Pinecone project has a unique product ID.

To find the ID of a project, go to the project list in the Pinecone console.

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Project pod limit

To control costs, project owners can set the maximum total number of pods allowed across all pod-based indexes in a project.

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See also

• Understanding organizations
• Manage organization members