> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.pinecone.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Create a collection > Create a Pinecone collection. Collections are supported only for pod-based indexes. Pod-based indexes cannot be created with API version `2026-07`, so this operation applies to pod-based indexes created with an earlier API version. ```shell curl theme={null} 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: 2026-07" \ -d '{ "name": "example-collection", "source": "docs-example" }' ``` ## OpenAPI ````yaml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pinecone-io/pinecone-api/refs/heads/main/2026-07/db_control_2026-07.oas.yaml post /collections openapi: 3.0.3 info: title: Pinecone Control Plane API description: >- Pinecone is a vector database that makes it easy to search and retrieve billions of high-dimensional vectors. contact: name: Pinecone Support url: https://support.pinecone.io email: support@pinecone.io license: name: Apache 2.0 url: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 version: 2026-07 servers: - url: https://api.pinecone.io description: Production API endpoints security: - ApiKeyAuth: [] tags: - name: Manage Indexes description: Actions that manage indexes externalDocs: description: More Pinecone.io API docs url: https://docs.pinecone.io/introduction paths: /collections: post: tags: - Manage Indexes summary: Create a collection description: > Create a Pinecone collection. Collections are supported only for pod-based indexes. Pod-based indexes cannot be created with API version `2026-07`, so this operation applies to pod-based indexes created with an earlier API version. operationId: create_collection parameters: - in: header name: X-Pinecone-Api-Version description: Required date-based version header required: true schema: default: 2026-07 type: string style: simple requestBody: description: The desired configuration for the collection. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/CreateCollectionRequest' examples: creating-collection: summary: Creating a collection value: name: example-collection source: example-source-index required: true responses: '201': description: The collection has been successfully created. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/CollectionModel' '400': description: Bad request. The request body included invalid request parameters. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse' examples: index-metric-validation-error: summary: Validation error value: error: code: INVALID_ARGUMENT message: >- Bad request. The request body included invalid request parameters. status: 400 '401': description: 'Unauthorized. Possible causes: missing or invalid API key.' content: text/plain: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/UnauthorizedMessage' '402': description: >- Payment required. Organization is on a paid plan and is delinquent on payment. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse' examples: payment-required: summary: Payment required value: error: code: PAYMENT_REQUIRED message: >- Request failed. Pay all past due invoices to lift restrictions on your account. status: 402 '403': description: You've exceed your collections quota. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse' examples: unauthorized: summary: Forbidden value: error: code: FORBIDDEN message: >- Collection exceeds quota. Maximum allowed on your account is 1. Currently have 1. status: 403 '404': description: Index not found. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse' examples: index-not-found: summary: Index not found value: error: code: NOT_FOUND message: Index example-index not found. status: 404 '409': description: Collection of given name already exists. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse' examples: collection-name-already-exists: summary: Collection name needs to be unique. value: error: code: ALREADY_EXISTS message: Resource already exists. status: 409 '422': description: Unprocessable entity. The request body could not be deserialized. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse' examples: missing-field: summary: Unprocessable entity value: error: code: UNPROCESSABLE_ENTITY message: >- Failed to deserialize the JSON body into the target type: missing field `metric` at line 1 column 16 status: 422 '500': description: Internal server error. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse' examples: internal-server-error: summary: Internal server error value: error: code: UNKNOWN message: Internal server error status: 500 components: schemas: CreateCollectionRequest: description: The configuration needed to create a Pinecone collection. type: object properties: name: description: > 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 '-'. type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 45 source: example: example-source-index description: The name of the index to be used as the source for the collection. type: string required: - name - source CollectionModel: description: >- The CollectionModel describes the configuration and status of a Pinecone collection. type: object properties: name: example: example-collection description: The name of the collection. type: string size: example: 10000000 description: The size of the collection in bytes. type: integer format: int64 status: example: Initializing description: >- The status of the collection. Possible values: `Initializing`, `Ready`, `Terminating`, or `Terminated`. x-enum: - Initializing - Ready - Terminating - Terminated type: string dimension: example: 1536 description: >- The dimension of the vectors stored in each record held in the collection. type: integer format: int32 minimum: 1 maximum: 20000 vector_count: example: 120000 description: The number of records stored in the collection. type: integer format: int32 environment: example: us-east1-gcp description: The environment where the collection is hosted. type: string required: - name - status - environment ErrorResponse: example: error: code: INVALID_ARGUMENT message: >- Index name must contain only lowercase alphanumeric characters or hyphens, and must not begin or end with a hyphen. status: 400 description: The response shape used for all error responses. type: object properties: status: example: 500 description: The HTTP status code of the error. type: integer error: example: code: INVALID_ARGUMENT message: >- Index name must contain only lowercase alphanumeric characters or hyphens, and must not begin or end with a hyphen. description: Detailed information about the error that occurred. type: object properties: code: description: >- The error code. Possible values: `OK`, `UNKNOWN`, `INVALID_ARGUMENT`, `DEADLINE_EXCEEDED`, `NOT_FOUND`, `ALREADY_EXISTS`, `PERMISSION_DENIED`, `UNAUTHENTICATED`, `RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED`, `FAILED_PRECONDITION`, `ABORTED`, `OUT_OF_RANGE`, `INTERNAL`, `FORBIDDEN`, `PAYMENT_REQUIRED`, `SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE`, `PAYLOAD_TOO_LARGE`, or `UNPROCESSABLE_ENTITY`. x-enum: - OK - UNKNOWN - INVALID_ARGUMENT - DEADLINE_EXCEEDED - NOT_FOUND - ALREADY_EXISTS - PERMISSION_DENIED - UNAUTHENTICATED - RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED - FAILED_PRECONDITION - ABORTED - OUT_OF_RANGE - INTERNAL - FORBIDDEN - PAYMENT_REQUIRED - SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE - PAYLOAD_TOO_LARGE - UNPROCESSABLE_ENTITY type: string message: example: >- Index name must contain only lowercase alphanumeric characters or hyphens, and must not begin or end with a hyphen. description: A human-readable description of the error type: string details: description: >- Additional information about the error. This field is not guaranteed to be present. type: object required: - code - message required: - status - error UnauthorizedMessage: example: Invalid API key description: >- The plain-text body of a `401` response. Authentication failures are rejected before the request reaches the API, so they carry a short message rather than an `ErrorResponse`. type: string securitySchemes: ApiKeyAuth: type: apiKey in: header name: Api-Key description: >- An API Key is required to call Pinecone APIs. Get yours from the [console](https://app.pinecone.io/). ````