POST
/
indexes
/
create-for-model
PINECONE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"

curl https://api.pinecone.io/indexes/create-for-model \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Api-Key: $PINECONE_API_KEY" \
  -H "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2025-10" \
  -d '{
        "name": "integrated-dense-curl",
        "cloud": "aws",
        "region": "us-east-1",
        "embed": {
          "model": "llama-text-embed-v2",
          "metric": "cosine",
          "field_map": {
            "text": "chunk_text"
          },
          "write_parameters": {
            "input_type": "passage",
            "truncate": "END"
          },
          "read_parameters": {
            "input_type": "query",
            "truncate": "END"
          }
        }
      }'

{
  "id": "9dabb7cb-ec0a-4e2e-b79e-c7c997e592ce",
  "name": "integrated-dense-curl",
  "metric": "cosine",
  "dimension": 1024,
  "status": {
    "ready": false,
    "state": "Initializing"
  },
  "host": "integrated-dense-curl-govk0nt.svc.aped-4627-b74a.pinecone.io",
  "spec": {
    "serverless": {
      "region": "us-east-1",
      "cloud": "aws"
    }
  },
  "deletion_protection": "disabled",
  "tags": null,
  "embed": {
    "model": "llama-text-embed-v2",
    "field_map": {
      "text": "chunk_text"
    },
    "dimension": 1024,
    "metric": "cosine",
    "write_parameters": {
      "input_type": "passage",
      "truncate": "END"
    },
    "read_parameters": {
      "input_type": "query",
      "truncate": "END"
    }
  }
}

PINECONE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"

curl https://api.pinecone.io/indexes/create-for-model \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Api-Key: $PINECONE_API_KEY" \
  -H "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2025-10" \
  -d '{
        "name": "integrated-dense-curl",
        "cloud": "aws",
        "region": "us-east-1",
        "embed": {
          "model": "llama-text-embed-v2",
          "metric": "cosine",
          "field_map": {
            "text": "chunk_text"
          },
          "write_parameters": {
            "input_type": "passage",
            "truncate": "END"
          },
          "read_parameters": {
            "input_type": "query",
            "truncate": "END"
          }
        }
      }'

{
  "id": "9dabb7cb-ec0a-4e2e-b79e-c7c997e592ce",
  "name": "integrated-dense-curl",
  "metric": "cosine",
  "dimension": 1024,
  "status": {
    "ready": false,
    "state": "Initializing"
  },
  "host": "integrated-dense-curl-govk0nt.svc.aped-4627-b74a.pinecone.io",
  "spec": {
    "serverless": {
      "region": "us-east-1",
      "cloud": "aws"
    }
  },
  "deletion_protection": "disabled",
  "tags": null,
  "embed": {
    "model": "llama-text-embed-v2",
    "field_map": {
      "text": "chunk_text"
    },
    "dimension": 1024,
    "metric": "cosine",
    "write_parameters": {
      "input_type": "passage",
      "truncate": "END"
    },
    "read_parameters": {
      "input_type": "query",
      "truncate": "END"
    }
  }
}

Authorizations

​
Api-Key
string
header
required

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

Body

application/json

The desired configuration for the index and associated embedding model.

Response

201
application/json

The index has successfully been created for the embedding model.

The IndexModel describes the configuration and status of a Pinecone index.