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Migrated our RAG pipeline from OpenAI to Gemini — cost dropped 80%
StartupCTO_Mike April 20, 2026
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We process about 2M tokens/day for our customer support RAG system. Switched from GPT-4o to Gemini 2.5 Flash and our monthly API bill went from $850 to $170. Quality is comparable — we ran a blind evaluation with our support team and they couldn't consistently tell which model generated which response. Flash is absurdly cost-effective for production workloads.
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