War Story: We Replaced Pinecone 1.5 with Milvus 2.4 and Reduced Our Vector DB Cost by 49%
A company successfully migrated from Pinecone 1.5 to Milvus 2.4, resulting in significant cost savings. Their monthly expenses for vector database services decreased by 49%, while latency improved dramatically. The transition was completed without any downtime or data loss.
- ▪The monthly bill for Pinecone 1.5 reached $42,000, which was 72% over budget.
- ▪After switching to Milvus 2.4, the monthly cost dropped to $21,420 with a p99 latency of 112ms.
- ▪Milvus 2.4's architecture supports 10x higher queries per second per node compared to Pinecone 1.5.
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