What does a production RAG actually cost per month?
No sales theatre. Move the sliders, pick your model tier and EU hosting preference, and see the monthly cost band, with the full formula disclosed at the bottom.
Document corpus (pages)50,000
Queries per month10,000
How we calculate
- Vector store: €0.02 per 1,000 pages per month (hosted, replicated)
- Object storage for originals: €0.01 per 1,000 pages per month
- Embedding reindex: 10% of corpus per month × €0.0002 per 1,000 tokens
- Model inference: per-1,000-query price per tier shown above
- Operations layer (dashboards, logging, backup, 24/7 monitoring): €450 flat
- EU-region premium: +15% on top (Frankfurt region, EU SCCs, no US providers in the pipeline)
Price assumptions as of 2026-10. Volume and enterprise contracts change the picture materially. Figures are indicative, not a quote.