Celonis vs Pinecone comparison

Celonis and Pinecone are both solutions in the AI Data Analysis category. Celonis is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.1, while Pinecone is ranked #13 with an average rating of 8.4. Celonis holds a 0.5% mindshare in ADA, compared to Pinecone’s 0.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Celonis users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Pinecone users who would recommend it.

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We performed a comparison between Celonis and Pinecone based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two AI Data Analysis solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

ROI

Sentiment score

6.8

Celonis improves efficiency and reduces costs by up to 80%, with ROI seen in 9 to 11 months.

Sentiment score

5.3

Pinecone drastically cut reporting time and costs, improved decision-making, and boosted customer engagement with faster task completion.

In the first couple of years, I would not expect a return on investment because the initial setup will take more than a year if the process requires significant customization.

Praveen Bansal

Senior Business Intelligence Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

In my opinion, there's a positive return on investment.

Attila Aranyos

Head of Commercial Excellence at Sartorius AG

I have seen a return on investment, especially in time saved for my clients; in the incident management process, the average cycle time for handling tickets was over ninety-eight hours, but after identifying root causes, such as tickets being held due to wrong group allocation, the cycle time reduced to approximately thirty-eight hours.

reviewer2795421

Process Mining Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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I have achieved a 30 to 40% reduction in time to go through the documentation because now I can ask a query from the chatbot, and it provides the result with the appropriate source link.

Tushar Prasad

Technical Product Manager at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

The task that was happening before developing this product was taking around one hour, but now it is done in hardly one or two minutes.

Shobhit Goel

Data Science Architect at Publicis Sapient

I have seen a return on investment with Pinecone, as the application we built received positive feedback from internal stakeholders about how much it's helping them make business decisions and access information quickly at their fingertips.

Ssaw Ssaw

Senior Engineer at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

5.7

Celonis support is praised for responsiveness but criticized for inconsistencies and slower responses, especially for smaller contracts.

Sentiment score

6.2

Pinecone's customer service is praised for quick responses, great documentation, and a helpful chatbot, earning high satisfaction ratings.

It took more than two weeks to receive a response.

Praveen Bansal

Senior Business Intelligence Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Celonis customer support is really good; they investigate concerns thoroughly and provide solutions or troubleshooting steps, which I find helpful.

reviewer2795421

Process Mining Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Other times I do not get much clarity on the support from the team.

reviewer2797770

Data Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

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The customer support of Pinecone is very good; you send an email and receive a response within a few hours, typically four to five hours.

Pradeep Gudipati

Chief Technology Advisor at Kovaad technologies Pvt Ltd

I haven't needed support because the documentation is good enough to help developers get up to speed.

reviewer2774628

Research Assistant at a university with 10,001+ employees

I would rate the customer support a nine out of ten.

Tushar Prasad

Technical Product Manager at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.2

Celonis provides scalable solutions with seamless integration, accommodating enterprise roles and data needs while managing deployment and cost considerations.

Sentiment score

6.6

Pinecone's serverless architecture and automatic scaling effectively manage large data volumes, ensuring rapid indexing and retrieval performance.

I recall that when we started using Celonis, we had a space of five terabytes and around one thousand users, and Celonis managed all of that easily.

Praveen Bansal

Senior Business Intelligence Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

I recommend focusing on recent data or perhaps five years of historical data along with live data for better visibility and stability in the process.

reviewer2795421

Process Mining Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

At the moment, I'd rate scalability six or seven out of ten.

AntonioCardone

Senior Development Manager at Lutech

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It splits vector data into shards, and each shard can be independently indexed and queried, helping with parallel query execution.

Tushar Prasad

Technical Product Manager at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are storing close to around 600K items or entries in the database, and our indexing and retrievals are within seconds, often in microseconds.

Pradeep Gudipati

Chief Technology Advisor at Kovaad technologies Pvt Ltd

We've rolled out the early version as a beta access to a few, maybe twenty to thirty customers.

reviewer2774628

Research Assistant at a university with 10,001+ employees

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

8.0

Celonis is stable with minor issues, reliable performance, effective task handling, and stability ratings generally between eight and ten.

Sentiment score

7.9

Pinecone is highly stable, reliable for enterprises, efficiently handles scaling, and maintains consistent performance with minimal downtime.

It's super stable.

Attila Aranyos

Head of Commercial Excellence at Sartorius AG

Celonis is stable.

GulshanMishra

Management Data Engineer & Governance Senior Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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It is able to withstand the enormous data load and manage it effectively.

Tushar Prasad

Technical Product Manager at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Room For Improvement

Celonis needs improvements in integration, usability, automation, visualization, pricing, and support, including better documentation and data handling.

Pinecone needs enhanced onboarding, serverless storage, faster search, multimodal support, and on-premises options, reducing costs and improving accessibility.

Ultimately, I need niche expertise, combining strong SAP knowledge with Celonis competency.

Attila Aranyos

Head of Commercial Excellence at Sartorius AG

It is essential for the Celonis solution to have their services and solution models integrated with GenAI.

AntonioCardone

Senior Development Manager at Lutech

The most important area for improvement is the automation part.

Ebin_Abraham

Data Engineer at Baker Hughes

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When we started two years ago, there weren't any vector databases on AWS, making Pinecone a pioneer in the field.

Ssaw Ssaw

Senior Engineer at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

In LangSmith, end-to-end API calls can be analyzed, showing what request came from the customer, what vector search was performed, what prompt was created, what call was given to the LLM, and what response was received from the LLM to the UI.

Shobhit Goel

Data Science Architect at Publicis Sapient

One major issue I have noticed with Pinecone is that it does not allow me to search based on metadata.

Pradeep Gudipati

Chief Technology Advisor at Kovaad technologies Pvt Ltd

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Setup Cost

Celonis pricing is costly for SMEs, with variable costs based on data usage, making it a significant investment.

Pinecone offers competitive, variable pricing with flexibility, low setup costs, and potential expense without usage limits in high scalability contexts.

I think it's relatively expensive, but it's also good.

Attila Aranyos

Head of Commercial Excellence at Sartorius AG

Based on client feedback, I have heard that the pricing for Celonis is considered high.

Nikhil-More

Senior Application Developer at Fujitsu

creating a data model for one process will differ in cost if you add more data models for additional processes.

reviewer2795421

Process Mining Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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The setup cost for us is nil, and the licensing and pricing are pretty decent.

Pradeep Gudipati

Chief Technology Advisor at Kovaad technologies Pvt Ltd

Pricing was handled by the procurement team, but it follows a usage-based pricing model, and I have to pay for storage, read operations, and write operations.

Tushar Prasad

Technical Product Manager at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Valuable Features

Celonis excels in process mining and automation with intuitive dashboards, seamless integration, and user-friendly UI for data-driven decisions.

Pinecone offers seamless AWS integration, scalability, and high performance for efficient search and data indexing, with flexible pricing.

Celonis is also beneficial for its built-in apps that streamline tasks from legacy applications, facilitating daily operations and improving efficiency.

Nikhil-More

Senior Application Developer at Fujitsu

It provides a visualization of the process itself, giving a very good synthesis of performance and helping me find improvements.

Attila Aranyos

Head of Commercial Excellence at Sartorius AG

It's the first solution that combines business competence and capabilities with technological capabilities.

AntonioCardone

Senior Development Manager at Lutech

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The namespaces feature allows us to break down or store data for each user separately, reducing interference and maintaining privacy as an important feature.

Pradeep Gudipati

Chief Technology Advisor at Kovaad technologies Pvt Ltd

Pinecone has positively impacted my organization by helping people in needle-in-a-haystack situations, as previously they had to grind through PDF documents, PowerPoint documents, and websites, but now with Pinecone, they can ask questions and receive references to documents along with the page numbers where that information exists, so they can use it as a reference or backtrack, especially for things such as FDA approvals where they can quote the exact page number from PDF documents, eliminating hallucination and providing real-time data that relies on an external vector database with enough guardrails to ensure it won't provide information not in the vector database, confining it to the information present in the indexes.

Ssaw Ssaw

Senior Engineer at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Pinecone, on the other hand, is pay-as-you-go on the number of queries. You only pay for the queries that you hit.

reviewer2774628

Research Assistant at a university with 10,001+ employees

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Categories and Ranking

Celonis

Ranking in AI Data Analysis

6th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Process Mining (2nd)

Pinecone

Ranking in AI Data Analysis

13th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Vector Databases (5th), AI Content Creation (4th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the AI Data Analysis category, the mindshare of Celonis is 0.5%. The mindshare of Pinecone is 0.5%, down from 6.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

AI Data Analysis Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Celonis	0.5%
Pinecone	0.5%
Other	99.0%

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Featured Reviews

Ebin_Abraham

Data Engineer at Baker Hughes

Process mining has delivered major savings and now needs better automation and task mining

Collaboration with ERPs should be improved. Compared to SAP Signavio, Celonis is less competitive for BPMN modeling. Deployment flexibility needs enhancement, as on-premises support is not as strong as SaaS support. The most important area for improvement is the automation part. End-to-end automation capabilities are desired. Currently, workflows are being used, but actions should be able to go via email, task, APIs, and ultimately write back to the source. Adding RPA capability that can interact with required systems and write back to the source would greatly enhance Celonis. Task mining capabilities also require improvement. UiPath Process Mining and Microsoft Process Mining have better task mining capabilities compared to Celonis. Usability and support from Celonis need improvement. They should help clients find more value in the product. Cost is another significant concern, as Celonis is very expensive compared to other process mining tools. The license cost should be reduced. Celonis should establish partnerships with clients to find more use cases and maximize the value gained from Celonis.

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Pradeep Gudipati

Chief Technology Advisor at Kovaad technologies Pvt Ltd

Faced challenges with metadata filtering but have achieved reliable long-term memory for chat applications

We were looking at multiple options for a vector database, and we found Pinecone to be the easiest to integrate into our solution. Plus, it has a very generous free tier, which helps us as a startup. The best features Pinecone offers are quick setup and good indexing for us. The retrieval mechanisms are fast, and the integration with Python as with JavaScript and TypeScript libraries that Pinecone provides are very robust. Authentication is also very good. The namespaces feature allows us to break down or store data for each user separately, reducing interference and maintaining privacy as an important feature. Pinecone has positively impacted our organization by enhancing efficiency for the team, and the long-term effect has been that the chats have become much more personalized due to the memory added through a vector database. We are seeing that the trainees getting trained on the platform are more satisfied with the results or messages generated by AI.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

16%

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

Energy/Utilities Company

Computer Software Company

12%

University

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	44

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	8

Questions from the Community

Which is better - Signavio Process Manager or Celonis?

SAP Signavio Process Manager is a very robust industrial-grade business process modeling tool. It is easy to use and does not require too much technological involvement. This solution has a collabo...

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What do you like most about Celonis?

Celonis, especially for high-risk finance-related processes, helped us make precise decisions and uncover hidden values within our architecture. It was one of the most significant values our busine...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Celonis?

I am not heavily involved in that particular aspect, but I have heard that Celonis is somewhat expensive.

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What do you like most about Pinecone?

We chose Pinecone because it covers most of the use cases.

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What needs improvement with Pinecone?

I give Pinecone a nine out of ten because I hope it provides an end-to-end agentic solution, but currently, it doesn't have those agentic capabilities, meaning I have to create a Streamlit applicat...

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What is your primary use case for Pinecone?

My main use case for Pinecone is creating vector indexes for GenAI applications. A specific example of how I use Pinecone in one of my projects is utilizing a RAG pipeline where I take text from PD...

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Comparisons

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Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 4% of the time

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Overview

Celonis is the global leader in execution management. Powered by its process mining core, Celonis has evolved from its beginnings as a Process Mining company into an execution management pioneer, enabling companies to unlock execution capacity and perform at full potential. Celonis offers advanced technology in data execution, combining real-time process data, the intelligence to make sense of that data, and the execution capacity to take immediate, decisive action. Celonis’ Execution Management System makes data work for its customers by identifying inefficiencies and weaving interconnected processes together – thereby eliminating billions in corporate inefficiencies, empowering better business decisions and triggering the right actions automatically. Celonis is headquartered in Munich, Germany and New York City, USA and has 15 offices worldwide.

Celonis

Pinecone is a powerful tool for efficiently storing and retrieving vector embeddings. It is highly praised for its scalability, speed, and ease of integration with existing workflows.

Users find it particularly useful for similarity search, recommendation systems, and natural language processing.

Its efficient search capabilities, seamless integration with existing systems, and ability to handle large-scale datasets make it a valuable tool for data analysis and retrieval.

Pinecone

Sample Customers

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1. Airbnb 2. DoorDash 3. Instacart 4. Lyft 5. Pinterest 6. Reddit 7. Slack 8. Snapchat 9. Spotify 10. TikTok 11. Twitter 12. Uber 13. Zoom 14. Adobe 15. Amazon 16. Apple 17. Facebook 18. Google 19. IBM 20. Microsoft 21. Netflix 22. Salesforce 23. Shopify 24. Square 25. Tesla 26. TikTok 27. Twitch 28. Uber Eats 29. WhatsApp 30. Yelp 31. Zillow 32. Zynga

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