# Building real-time AI applications with Pinecone and Confluent Cloud

Confluent's data streaming platform enables organizations to make real-time contextual inferences on their data by bringing well curated, trustworthy streaming data to the Pinecone vector database.

With the Pinecone and Confluent Cloud integration, users can quickly and simply gain access to data streams from across their entire business to build a real-time, contextual, and trustworthy knowledge base for their GenAI applications. The [Pinecone Sink Connector](https://www.confluent.io/hub/confluentinc/kafka-connect-pinecone-sink) is now available in public preview.

## Why Pinecone for Confluent

### Easy to use

Choose your AI model and start building in seconds. Create an account and your first index with a few clicks or API calls. Become an expert with extensive developer docs, example notebooks, and educational articles.

### Fast, relevant results

Speed through data in milliseconds. Leverage metadata filters and sparse-dense index support for top-notch relevance, ensuring quick and accurate results across diverse search tasks.

### Predictable costs

Start for free on the starter plan and seamlessly scale usage with transparent resource-based pricing. Easily view and monitor usage within the console.

## Building with Pinecone and Confluent

Create a real-time knowledge base

Power quick, easy semantic search across your internal documents.

Build chatbots that answer right

Enhance prompts and generate results backed by real data sources.

Ensure governed, secured, trusted AI

Establish data lineage, quality and traceability of your data.

Experiment, scale, innovate faster

Test, build faster by decoupling data from your tools and AI applications.