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Estimate Your RAG Token Budget Before You Build the Retrieval App

Before you wire up a search index, a retriever, and a chat model, do one piece of planning that will save you rework later: estimate your token budget for each query. In a retrieval-augmented generation app, the model does not just read the user's question. It also reads your instructions, the retr…

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  1. 2026-11-01 11:37 · DEV Community — AI
    Estimate Your RAG Token Budget Before You Build the Retrieval App

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