Equation 12 · Part 1 · The Hidden Infrastructure Bill Behind Every RAG Answer
Symbol C_LC
What this part means
C 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
C 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
…If the same workload instead pasted 100,000 tokens of context into every call to substitute for what retrieval would have selected, at OpenAI’s gpt-5.6-sol long-context input rate of ten dollars per million tokens, comes to one dollar per query, or 100,000 dollars a month — about seven times the retrieval pipeline’s bill. This is arithmetic on a stated hypothetical workload, not a measurement of either approach in production, and it depends entirely on the size of E , the amount of context a…
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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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