Pinecone uses conventional HTTP response codes to indicate the success or failure of an API request. In general, codes in the 2xx range indicate success, codes in the 4xx range indicate an error that failed given the information provided, and codes in the 5xx range indicate an error with Pinecone’s servers.

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200 - OK

The request succeeded.

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201 - CREATED

The request succeeded and a new resource was created.

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202 - NO CONTENT

The request succeeded, but there is no content to return.

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400 - INVALID ARGUMENT

The request failed due to an invalid argument.

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401 - UNAUTHENTICATED

The request failed due to a missing or invalid API key.

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402 - PAYMENT REQUIRED

The request failed due to delinquent payment.

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403 - FORBIDDEN

The request failed due to an exceeded quota or index deletion protection.

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404 - NOT FOUND

The request failed because the resource was not found.

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409 - ALREADY EXISTS

The request failed because the resource already exists.

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412 - FAILED PRECONDITIONS

The request failed due to preconditions not being met. |

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422 - UNPROCESSABLE ENTITY

The request failed because the server was unable to process the contained instructions.

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429 - TOO MANY REQUESTS

The request was rate-limited.

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500 - UNKNOWN

An internal server error occurred.

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503 - UNAVAILABLE

The server is currently unavailable.