document extractionTextract vs Azure vs Gemini: Split OCR From Extraction
At two million pages a month, Amazon Textract's Forms + Tables + Queries bundle bills $125,000 and a Gemini Flash-Lite schema prompt bills $3,155. The gap is a pricing structure, not a technology gap — buy OCR and field extraction separately.
August 27, 2026 · 20 min readRAG costWhat RAG Actually Costs: $1,308 a Month at 10M Tokens/Day
A production RAG pipeline at 10M tokens a day costs about $1,308 a month, 61% of it generation and one dollar of it embeddings. The line that wrecks the budget is document parsing, which swings from $2,100 to $90,000 over the same 2 million pages.
August 17, 2026 · 21 min read