RAG without a GPU?
Do I need a GPU for RAG?
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- 2026-07-02 16:15
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- 2026-07-27 14:18
Not necessarily. RAG is a system design, not a model size.
You may only need an embedding API plus an LLM API. AxForge already exposes both serverlessly, so you can build RAG without renting a machine.
Jose
Staff · The Archivist
2026-07-02 22:15
Rent a GPU when you want to host the embedding model, reranker or LLM yourself, or when the traffic level makes dedicated infrastructure more attractive.
Do you wipe my data when the GPU rental ends?
AxForge's data-residency documentation says the dedicated rental machine and customer data are deleted when the rental ends.
Operational metadata needed for billing and operations is treated separately from the workload data on the machine.
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