At Zilliz, Democratizing AI through powerful and affordable vector search is a top priority. The company offers flexible pricing plans to fit budgets, including a true pay-as-you-go serverless option and dedicated clusters across three pricing tiers. Their latest release, Milvus 2.6, delivers one of the most cost-effective vector database solutions on the market, focusing on monetary savings, operational efficiencies, and developer time. Milvus 2.6 introduces innovations such as Tiered Storage with Hot/Cold Data Separation, Int8 Vector Compression, and Woodpecker Write-Ahead Log to reduce costs without compromising retrieval speed or performance. The open-source vector database is designed for scale and provides tools like Data-In, Custom Reranker, and Built-in Text & JSON Search to save developer time. With Milvus 2.6, organizations can process more data, run more experiments, and expand their use cases while maintaining a low cost of search.