Cost Estimate & Next Steps

Monthly Cost Estimate

LLM API (Qwen via DashScope)

¥10,000 - ¥15,000

Vector DB (AnalyticDB-PG)

¥2,000 - ¥3,000

Object Storage (OSS 1TB)

¥100 - ¥150

Metadata DB (RDS PostgreSQL)

¥800 - ¥1,200

Search (Elasticsearch 3-node)

¥3,000 - ¥5,000

Compute (ACK/ECS 4 nodes)

¥3,000 - ¥4,000

Other (API Gateway, Monitor)

¥1,000 - ¥2,000

Total Monthly

¥20,000 - ¥30,000 (~$2.8K-$4.2K)

Immediate Next Steps

Action Items

- Vendor evaluation with Alibaba Cloud team
- PoC: RAG API + AnalyticDB-PG + Qwen
- MS Graph API integration prototype
- Proceed to Technical Design phase

Success Criteria

- Reduce average time-to-answer by 50%
- 85%+ retrieval accuracy on benchmarks
- Consolidate 3+ existing knowledge tools
- 80% employee adoption within 6 months
- <500ms P95 latency (China region)