There are many aspects to consider to minimize latencies:

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Slow uploads or high latencies

To minimize latency when accessing Pinecone:
  • Switch to a cloud environment. For example: EC2, GCE, Google Colab, GCP AI Platform Notebook, or SageMaker Notebook. If you experience slow uploads or high query latencies, it might be because you are accessing Pinecone from your home network.
  • Consider deploying your application in the same environment as your Pinecone service. For users on the Starter (free) plan, the environment is GCP US-West (Oregon).
  • See performance tuning for more tips.

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High query latencies with batching

If you’re batching queries, try reducing the number of queries per call to 1 query vector. You can make these calls in parallel and expect roughly the same performance as with batching.