08:05
2026-06-16
dev.to
large-language-models
You Spent $35,000 Fine-Tuning a Model. A $28,000 RAG System Would Have Done It Better.
A developer argues that many enterprise AI teams waste money fine-tuning models when retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) would be more effective. Fine-tuning a 40B model can cost over $35,000 per run…