SEARCH RESULTS

If you currently use Pinecone, Validiti Witness delivers the same retrieval outcome — on your hardware, no GPU.

For developers building applications that need to retrieve the right record fast, Validiti Witness is a sealed-binary alternative to cloud-tethered vector databases. Records stay on your hardware. Every result carries a signed citation back to the source row.

Validiti Verus

$199 / yr per seat
Records-query with signed citations. The drop-in retrieval layer.

Honest side-by-side

QuestionPineconeValiditi Witness
Where the index livesPinecone's cloud (multi-tenant)Your hardware
Where your records liveSent to Pinecone for embedding + indexingOn your hardware. Never leave.
Pricing modelPer-pod per-hour + storage tier + query volumeFlat $199/yr per seat. No metered surprises.
GPU required for indexing?Embedding model needs GPU somewhereNo. CPU only.
Outage exposurePinecone outage = your app outageYour hardware = your uptime
Subpoena surfaceSubpoenas to Pinecone reach your dataNo central data lake. Subpoenas go to you.
Result provenanceTop-k vector similarity scoreSigned citation per result, verifiable by a third party
Update cost when records changeRe-embed + re-index batchesAppend-only. Single-row updates in milliseconds.