Enterprise RAG stack

Scores as of 2026-10-19 (8 days old).

Depot Pick

Cohere · 7.99/10 for this job (curated estimate, high confidence)

privacy + capability + maturity.

Runner-up

Pinecone · 7.85/10

Scores higher than the pick on: Capability fit, Latency / reliability, Developer & agent DX, Maturity / track record.

When not to use the pick

Simple app RAG on Postgres — use supabase-pgvector instead of a dedicated RAG vendor.

Lock-in / migration

The pick has lower stored lock-in risk than runner-up Pinecone (4.5 vs 7).

Sourced price (usd_per_million_input_tokens)

Pick: no sourced price in this job's unit (no_matching_sourced_price).

Cheapest matching SKU: Amazon Bedrock Gemma 3 4B $0.04 — source, as of 2026-10-03, re-checked 2026-10-27. Not the pick; not quality-adjusted.

Price history: first seen 2026-10-03 · last changed no change recorded · history JSON

Free option

No free resource lists this job. A cheap paid SKU is not a free option.

Failure modes to watch

• Runaway spend: Set a budget and a tool-call cap per task. Alert when spend jumps. Stop the run at the cap instead of summarizing a partial trace as success.
• Policy conflict: If cited sources contradict each other, return the conflict and the URLs. Do not pick a winner silently.
• Stale retrieval: Store the source URL and the time it was fetched. If a newer canonical page exists, or two stored sources disagree, do not answer from the older one.
• Ungrounded answer: Require a source URL or passage id on factual sentences. Drop or mark any sentence whose source does not contain the claim.
• Confirmation skip: Gate those tool names on an approval id recorded before the call. A missing approval is a failure even if the downstream tool returns success.
• Context overflow: If the input exceeds the window, say so and retrieve a narrower slice. Do not answer from a truncated head as if it were the whole source.

Reported outcomes (submitted reports only)

This job: loading… JSON · reports never change scores · seed/test records excluded

Depot Pick (Cohere) on this job: loading… JSON · reports never change scores · seed/test records excluded

Cite: Agent Provider Depot, Depot Pick for rag-enterprise: cohere, scores as of 2026-10-19. Agents: GET /api/decide?jtbd=rag-enterprise