Backups
List collections
Database
- Indexes
- Namespaces
- Vectors
- Search
- Imports
- Backups
- POSTCreate a backup of an index
- GETList backups for all indexes in a project
- GETList backups for an index
- GETDescribe a backup
- DELDelete a backup
- POSTCreate an index from a backup
- GETList restore jobs
- GETDescribe a restore job
- GETList collections
- POSTCreate a collection
- GETDescribe a collection
- DELDelete a collection
- POST
Inference
- Embed
- Rerank
Admin
- API keys
- Projects
- Service accounts
Architecture
Backups
List collections
List all collections in a project. Serverless indexes do not support collections.
GET
/
collections
PINECONE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"
curl -i -X GET "https://api.pinecone.io/collections" \
-H "Api-Key: $PINECONE_API_KEY" \
-H "X-Pinecone-API-Version: 2025-04"
{
"collections": [
{
"name": "example-collection1",
"status": "Ready",
"environment": "us-east-1-aws",
"size": 3081918,
"vector_count": 99,
"dimension": 3
},
{
"name": "example-collection1",
"status": "Ready",
"environment": "us-east-1-aws",
"size": 160087040000000,
"vector_count": 10000000,
"dimension": 1536
}
]
}
PINECONE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"
curl -i -X GET "https://api.pinecone.io/collections" \
-H "Api-Key: $PINECONE_API_KEY" \
-H "X-Pinecone-API-Version: 2025-04"
{
"collections": [
{
"name": "example-collection1",
"status": "Ready",
"environment": "us-east-1-aws",
"size": 3081918,
"vector_count": 99,
"dimension": 3
},
{
"name": "example-collection1",
"status": "Ready",
"environment": "us-east-1-aws",
"size": 160087040000000,
"vector_count": 10000000,
"dimension": 1536
}
]
}
Authorizations
Response
200
application/json
List all the collections in your current project.
The list of collections that exist in the project.
The CollectionModel describes the configuration and status of a Pinecone collection.
The name of the collection.
Example:
"example-collection"
The status of the collection.
Available options:
Initializing
, Ready
, Terminating
Example:
"Initializing"
The environment where the collection is hosted.
Example:
"us-east1-gcp"
The size of the collection in bytes.
Example:
10000000
The dimension of the vectors stored in each record held in the collection.
Required range:
1 <= x <= 20000
Example:
1536
The number of records stored in the collection.
Example:
120000
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PINECONE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"
curl -i -X GET "https://api.pinecone.io/collections" \
-H "Api-Key: $PINECONE_API_KEY" \
-H "X-Pinecone-API-Version: 2025-04"
{
"collections": [
{
"name": "example-collection1",
"status": "Ready",
"environment": "us-east-1-aws",
"size": 3081918,
"vector_count": 99,
"dimension": 3
},
{
"name": "example-collection1",
"status": "Ready",
"environment": "us-east-1-aws",
"size": 160087040000000,
"vector_count": 10000000,
"dimension": 1536
}
]
}