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Semantic vs Agentic RAG
8 minAI
Semantic RAG costs roughly $0.001 to $0.01 per query. Agentic RAG costs $0.02 to $0.10 and can be 5 to 50 times slower. The accuracy delta on multi-hop questions is also real. A short guide to picking the right default.
Agentic RAG
8 minAI
Semantic RAG is a fixed pipeline. Agentic RAG hands retrieval control to the model: when to retrieve, what to query, how to combine, when to stop. A short guide to the patterns that matter and how to ship them.