# Pod limit reached

**URL:** <https://community.pinecone.io/t/pod-limit-reached/8359>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [August 19, 2025, 12:13pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/pod-limit-reached/8359 "2025-08-19T12:13:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![admin16](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.pinecone.io/admin16/32/3984_2.png) [@admin16](https://community.pinecone.io/u/admin16)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2025, 12:13pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/pod-limit-reached/8359/1 "2025-08-19T12:13:09Z")

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Hi

getting following error  
HTTP response headers: HTTPHeaderDict({‘content-type’: ‘text/plain; charset=utf-8’, ‘access-control-allow-origin’: ‘’, ‘vary’: ‘origin,access-control-request-method,access-control-request-headers’, ‘access-control-expose-headers’: ‘’, ‘x-pinecone-api-version’: ‘2024-04’, ‘x-cloud-trace-context’: ‘9af4b93305af93d3a454db4035c2885e’, ‘date’: ‘Wed, 06 Aug 2025 21:34:16 GMT’, ‘server’: ‘Google Frontend’, ‘Content-Length’: ‘198’, ‘Via’: ‘1.1 google’, ‘Alt-Svc’: ‘h3=“:443”; ma=2592000,h3-29=“:443”; ma=2592000’})  
HTTP response body: Request failed. You’ve reached the max pods allowed in project Default (0). To increase this limit, adjust your project settings in the console. Contact a project owner if…

My question is should we try to increase pod limit and is it possible to increase pod limit in starter plan as I am not able to find the option in setting as mentioned in doc  
[Manage pod-based indexes - Pinecone Docs](https://docs.pinecone.io/guides/indexes/pods/manage-pod-based-indexes#api)

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**Author:** ![perry](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.pinecone.io/perry/32/1729_2.png) [@perry](https://community.pinecone.io/u/perry)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2025, 2:38pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/pod-limit-reached/8359/2 "2025-08-19T14:38:18Z")

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Hi @admin16 , is there a reason you’re trying to launch a pod index instead of a Serverless one?

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**Author:** ![admin16](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.pinecone.io/admin16/32/3984_2.png) [@admin16](https://community.pinecone.io/u/admin16)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 11:53am UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/pod-limit-reached/8359/3 "2025-08-26T11:53:36Z")

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@perry Thanks for checking this. We are using serverless index. Can you help us on how to solve pod limit reached issue in this case

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**Author:** ![perry](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.pinecone.io/perry/32/1729_2.png) [@perry](https://community.pinecone.io/u/perry)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 12:30pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/pod-limit-reached/8359/4 "2025-08-26T12:30:09Z")

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Thanks again @admin16 , I’ll have to check internally since you shouldn’t be receiving any error related to pod indexes (or their quota) when creating a Serverless index.

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**Author:** ![perry](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.pinecone.io/perry/32/1729_2.png) [@perry](https://community.pinecone.io/u/perry)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2025, 3:01pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/pod-limit-reached/8359/5 "2025-08-27T15:01:31Z")

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@admin16 - I had a check with our engineering team and we’re unable to reproduce creating a new Serverless index without issue.

One thing we did notice is that your code sample might not be working properly because of the `if “quiz” …` line, do you have more to the code that might be executing without you realising?

Can you try:

```auto
list_index_res = pc.list_indexes() existing_indexes = [index["name"] for index in list_index_res.indexes ]

```

```auto
if "quiz" not in existing_indexes: ...

```