diff --git a/libs/partners/pinecone/langchain_pinecone/vectorstores.py b/libs/partners/pinecone/langchain_pinecone/vectorstores.py
index d01574b6195..94573dc8ef1 100644
--- a/libs/partners/pinecone/langchain_pinecone/vectorstores.py
+++ b/libs/partners/pinecone/langchain_pinecone/vectorstores.py
@@ -166,7 +166,8 @@ class PineconeVectorStore(VectorStore):
                     batch_size, zip(chunk_ids, embeddings, chunk_metadatas)
                 )
             ]
-            [res.get() for res in async_res]
+            if async_req:
+                [res.get() for res in async_res]
 
         return ids