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RAG System Cost in Year One: Real Numbers Behind the Proposal
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Six-figure RAG proposals are common. Accurate ones are not. This episode of DEV.co pulls apart the real cost structure of a production retrieval-augmented generation system — not the vague monthly estimate buried in a footnote, but the five recurring cost centers and one large upfront investment that together determine what year one actually looks like. The numbers come straight from the RAG…