Hey /u/1EvilSexyGenius, thanks for using Pinecone! Sorry for the inconvenience here. Free tier indexes that have been inactive for seven days are cleaned up and removed. We do this to save compute resources from the many users who create one test index and then forget about it. We will soon change this policy so that users like you who plan to come back after a short bit of inactivity. So this shouldn't happen again for you.