Hi @ajv. Welcome to the Pinecone community. I’m sorry for the delayed response. We didn’t have many eyes on the forum over the holidays.
GCP starter indexes were deprecated some time ago, but when you sign up for the Starter plan, you get 5 free serverless indexes with storage and compute limits that should suffice for testing us out.
If you haven’t seen it, our quickstart walks you through the basics.
Let us know if you run into other issues. Also, can you share a link to the instructions that tell you to create a GCP starter index? I’d like to make sure that gets updated.