RAG in Production 2026: Chunking Strategies, Embedding Costs, and What Actually Works at Scale
Most RAG tutorials show you how to build a demo. This post covers what breaks in production: chunking at 512 tokens beats semantic splitting, embedding costs range from $0.02 to $0.18 per million tokens, re-ranking boosts precision by 18–42%, and agentic RAG is now the 2026 standard. A practical guide for developers shipping RAG to real users.
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