Information RetrievalVector Ingestion & Inference

RAG Pipeline Cost Calculator

Model the complete end-to-end financial architecture of your enterprise RAG pipeline. Calculate one-off document embedding ingestion vs recurring search, top-k retrieval, and synthesis costs.

RAG Corpus & Query Architecture

Ingestion + Retrieval

1. Document Ingestion Phase

Total Documents2,500 docs

Avg Tokens / Doc1,800 tokens

Embedding Model

2. Query & Generation Phase

Synthesis LLM Model

Daily User Queries10,000

Retrieved Chunks (Top-K)5 chunks (2500 tok)

One-Time Ingestion

$0.0900

4.50M tokens embedded (9,000 chunks)

Recurring Monthly Cost

$1,087.43

300,000 queries/month

RAG Cost Economics Per Query

Vector Query Embedding:$0.000003

Context Ingestion (3.5k tok):$0.00212

Answer Generation (400 tok):$0.00150

Total Cost Per User Search:$0.00362 / search

Gemini 3.8 Flash for RAG Synthesis

Context: 1.05M tokens

Model Specs