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POST
/
collections
PINECONE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"

curl -s "https://api.pinecone.io/collections" \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Api-Key: $PINECONE_API_KEY" \
  -H "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2025-10" \
  -d '{
        "name": "example-collection",
        "source": "docs-example"
  }'

{
    "name": "example-collection",
    "status": "Initializing",
    "environment": "us-east-1-aws",
    "dimension": 1536
}

PINECONE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"

curl -s "https://api.pinecone.io/collections" \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Api-Key: $PINECONE_API_KEY" \
  -H "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2025-10" \
  -d '{
        "name": "example-collection",
        "source": "docs-example"
  }'

{
    "name": "example-collection",
    "status": "Initializing",
    "environment": "us-east-1-aws",
    "dimension": 1536
}

Authorizations

​
Api-Key
string
header
required

An API Key is required to call Pinecone APIs. Get yours from the console.

Headers

​
X-Pinecone-Api-Version
string
default:2025-10
required

Required date-based version header

Body

application/json

The desired configuration for the collection.

The configuration needed to create a Pinecone collection.

​
name
string
required

The name of the collection to be created. Resource name must be 1-45 characters long, start and end with an alphanumeric character, and consist only of lower case alphanumeric characters or '-'.

Required string length: 1 - 45
​
source
string
required

The name of the index to be used as the source for the collection.

Example:

"example-source-index"

Response

The collection has been successfully created.

The CollectionModel describes the configuration and status of a Pinecone collection.

​
name
string
required

The name of the collection.

Example:

"example-collection"

​
status
string
required

The status of the collection. Possible values: Initializing, Ready, or Terminating.

Example:

"Initializing"

​
environment
string
required

The environment where the collection is hosted.

Example:

"us-east1-gcp"

​
size
integer<int64>

The size of the collection in bytes.

Example:

10000000

​
dimension
integer<int32>

The dimension of the vectors stored in each record held in the collection.

Required range: 1 <= x <= 20000
Example:

1536

​
vector_count
integer<int32>

The number of records stored in the collection.

Example:

120000