No Pre-Build Cost Estimation for Multi-Component AI Workflows
Engineers designing LLM-based systems — including RAG pipelines, agent loops, and tool-calling workflows — have no reliable way to estimate total costs before committing to an architecture. The complexity compounds quickly when retrieval, retries, model selection, and infrastructure are combined, making financial and performance tradeoffs opaque during the planning phase. This lack of visibility can lead to costly architectural decisions that are expensive to reverse after implementation.
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