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Tech· 2026-04-23· 5min

Vectorless RAG Hits 98.7%. Here's What the Infographic Edited Out.

Tree-walking RAG really does beat chunked vector search on hierarchical documents — the 98.7% vs 50% gap on FinanceBench is real. But the headline hides the three costs that decide whether you should actually rip out your vector store: latency, per-query token burn, and the multi-document corpus problem that "vectorless" quietly punts on.

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