RAG Is Not Free: The Brutal Cost Curve After 10 Million Records and When to Kill It
Vector databases look cheap at 100k records. At 10 million, the bill becomes painful, and for many use cases, simpler markdown + search ofte...
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Vector databases look cheap at 100k records. At 10 million, the bill becomes painful, and for many use cases, simpler markdown + search ofte...
Vector databases look cheap at first, but RAG cost is distributed across storage, embeddings, queries, and re-ranking. This article breaks d...