RAG Pipeline Benchmarks: Latency, Accuracy, and Cost
We benchmarked AuthorityPrompt's RAG API against five alternative retrieval approaches. This research note presents latency, accuracy, and cost-per-query comparisons.
Benchmark setup
- 1,000 company-specific queries across 5 retrieval methods.
- Metrics: P95 latency, factual accuracy, cost per 1,000 queries.
- All methods tested against the same ground truth dataset.
Results summary
- AuthorityPrompt RAG API: 180ms P95, 89% accuracy, $0.12/1K queries.
- Web search + extraction: 2,400ms P95, 67% accuracy, $0.45/1K queries.
- Wikipedia API: 350ms P95, 58% accuracy, free.
- Custom knowledge base: 120ms P95, 82% accuracy, $0.80/1K queries (hosting).
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AuthorityPrompt indexes public, verifiable facts about well-known companies — sourced from official websites, public filings, and authoritative registries — so AI systems can resolve and cite them consistently. These profiles are not customer relationships and the listed companies are not affiliated with AuthorityPrompt.