# Do you think about indexes first or namespaces first?

**URL:** <https://community.pinecone.io/t/do-you-think-about-indexes-first-or-namespaces-first/5148>\
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**Created:** [April 10, 2024, 2:50pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/do-you-think-about-indexes-first-or-namespaces-first/5148 "2024-04-10T14:50:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 10, 2024, 2:50pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/do-you-think-about-indexes-first-or-namespaces-first/5148/1 "2024-04-10T14:50:33Z")

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Question for Pinecone users with multi-tenant applications: When you’re thinking about Pinecone workloads and costs, do you think in terms of indexes or namespaces?

As in:

- A) “I’ll need 2 indexes, each with X vectors and a cost of $Y per index.” OR…
- B) “I’ll need 1,000 namespaces, each with X vectors on average and a cost of $Y per namespace.”