diff --git a/airflow/providers/pinecone/hooks/pinecone.py b/airflow/providers/pinecone/hooks/pinecone.py
index 28978ab3a80287..35aa66c3204b56 100644
--- a/airflow/providers/pinecone/hooks/pinecone.py
+++ b/airflow/providers/pinecone/hooks/pinecone.py
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ def create_index(
         index_name: str,
         dimension: int,
         spec: ServerlessSpec | PodSpec,
-        metric: str | None = None,
+        metric: str | None = "cosine",
         timeout: int | None = None,
     ) -> None:
         """
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ def create_index(
         :param dimension: The dimension of the vectors to be indexed.
         :param spec: Pass a `ServerlessSpec` object to create a serverless index or a `PodSpec` object to create a pod index.
             ``get_serverless_spec_obj`` and ``get_pod_spec_obj`` can be used to create the Spec objects.
-        :param metric: The metric to use.
+        :param metric: The metric to use. Defaults to cosine.
         :param timeout: The timeout to use.
         """
         self.pinecone_client.create_index(
diff --git a/airflow/providers/pinecone/operators/pinecone.py b/airflow/providers/pinecone/operators/pinecone.py
index 102bd0eae0d82a..cbcba9e695cebd 100644
--- a/airflow/providers/pinecone/operators/pinecone.py
+++ b/airflow/providers/pinecone/operators/pinecone.py
@@ -99,10 +99,10 @@ class CreatePodIndexOperator(BaseOperator):
     :param replicas: The number of replicas to use.
     :param shards: The number of shards to use.
     :param pods: The number of pods to use.
-    :param pod_type: The type of pod to use.
+    :param pod_type: The type of pod to use. Defaults to p1.x1
     :param metadata_config: The metadata configuration to use.
     :param source_collection: The source collection to use.
-    :param metric: The metric to use.
+    :param metric: The metric to use. Defaults to cosine.
     :param timeout: The timeout to use.
     """
 
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ def __init__(
         replicas: int | None = None,
         shards: int | None = None,
         pods: int | None = None,
-        pod_type: str | None = None,
+        pod_type: str | None = "p1.x1",
         metadata_config: dict | None = None,
         source_collection: str | None = None,
         metric: str | None = "cosine",
diff --git a/tests/system/providers/pinecone/example_pinecone_cohere.py b/tests/system/providers/pinecone/example_pinecone_cohere.py
index c39263fcba8916..9e35c6c89fd418 100644
--- a/tests/system/providers/pinecone/example_pinecone_cohere.py
+++ b/tests/system/providers/pinecone/example_pinecone_cohere.py
@@ -20,9 +20,9 @@
 from datetime import datetime
 
 from airflow import DAG
-from airflow.decorators import task, teardown
+from airflow.decorators import setup, task, teardown
 from airflow.providers.cohere.operators.embedding import CohereEmbeddingOperator
-from airflow.providers.pinecone.operators.pinecone import CreatePodIndexOperator, PineconeIngestOperator
+from airflow.providers.pinecone.operators.pinecone import PineconeIngestOperator
 
 index_name = os.getenv("INDEX_NAME", "example-pinecone-index")
 namespace = os.getenv("NAMESPACE", "example-pinecone-index")
@@ -36,15 +36,15 @@
     start_date=datetime(2023, 1, 1),
     catchup=False,
 ) as dag:
-    create_index = CreatePodIndexOperator(
-        task_id="create_index",
-        index_name=index_name,
-        dimension=768,
-        replicas=1,
-        shards=1,
-        pods=1,
-        pod_type="p1.x1",
-    )
+
+    @setup
+    @task
+    def create_index():
+        from airflow.providers.pinecone.hooks.pinecone import PineconeHook
+
+        hook = PineconeHook()
+        pod_spec = hook.get_pod_spec_obj()
+        hook.create_index(index_name=index_name, dimension=768, spec=pod_spec)
 
     embed_task = CohereEmbeddingOperator(
         task_id="embed_task",
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ def delete_index():
         hook = PineconeHook()
         hook.delete_index(index_name=index_name)
 
-    create_index >> embed_task >> perform_ingestion >> delete_index()
+    create_index() >> embed_task >> perform_ingestion >> delete_index()
 
 from tests.system.utils import get_test_run  # noqa: E402
 
diff --git a/tests/system/providers/pinecone/example_pinecone_openai.py b/tests/system/providers/pinecone/example_pinecone_openai.py
index 44aa2c49cdaac3..d338e25542ce03 100644
--- a/tests/system/providers/pinecone/example_pinecone_openai.py
+++ b/tests/system/providers/pinecone/example_pinecone_openai.py
@@ -78,10 +78,6 @@
         task_id="create_index",
         index_name=index_name,
         dimension=1536,
-        replicas=1,
-        shards=1,
-        pods=1,
-        pod_type="p1.x1",
     )
 
     embed_task = OpenAIEmbeddingOperator(