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Prompt caching cuts a 400K-token long-context answer to $0.085 on Claude Sonnet 5.5, but RAG still answers for $0.017. The crossover formula, the accuracy-at-depth evidence and the latency users notice.
October 1, 2026 · 14 min read
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