Pinecone for Startups gives you 1 year of free access to Pinecone's Standard Tier and Pro Support, which comes with access to any cloud/region deployment, RBAC, Backups, Import, Prometheus Metrics, a dedicated Slack channel, and much more. Startups in the program also receive usage credits up to $3500 within your first year. The white-glove support & the credits we'll provide you are intended to support your AI application development POC to production Your startup is eligible if: You have fewer than 100 employees You're Series A or earlier Sign up here: https://www.pinecone.io/startup-program/