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Equation 11 · Part 1 · The Hidden Infrastructure Bill Behind Every RAG Answer

Symbol C_RAG

CRAGC_{\mathrm{RAG}}
CRAGC_{\mathrm{RAG}}

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CRC_RAG is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

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CRC_RAG is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

The passage around this formula

Filling in the billion-chunk illustration used throughout: at a hundred thousand queries a month, CRAGC_{\mathrm{RAG}} comes to roughly 2,195 dollars of storage plus about 11,500 dollars of combined query and rerank cost, or approximately 13,700 dollars a month, not counting the one-time ingestion charge. If the same workload instead pasted 100,000 tokens of context into every call to substitute…

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