Equation 11 · Part 1 · The Hidden Infrastructure Bill Behind Every RAG Answer
Symbol C_RAG
What this part means
AG is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Its job in the formula
AG 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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The passage around this formula
Filling in the billion-chunk illustration used throughout: at a hundred thousand queries a month, 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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A subscript is a label attached below a symbol. It often selects a time step, component, category, or member of a sequence.
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Sources cited in the article section
- [1] API Pricing ↗
- [11] Gemini Developer API Pricing ↗
- [10] Retrieval Augmented Generation or Long-Context LLMs? A Comprehensive Study and Hybrid Approach ↗
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