Help: Context Cache vs RAG for Massive LLM Contexts?
Firm-Track3617 · reddit · 2026-07-07
The author is building an LLM platform (e.g., generating DAGs requires correctly referencing numerous predefined nodes) and is torn between latency, cost, and reasoning quality when feeding massive amounts of context.
They are considering context caching (since most context remains unchanged across requests) versus vector-database RAG. Their concern is that RAG might only retrieve a few semantically similar items, while the model may need to reference a large number of structured nodes. They are seeking community insights and solutions.
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