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title: "Token Budget Constraints (TBC)"
description: "The hard limit on how much content an LLM can consume per request."
topic: "Technical Constraints"
canonical: "https://geordy.ai/glossary/technical-constraints/token-budget-constraints"
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# Token Budget Constraints (TBC)

The hard limit on how much content an LLM can consume per request.

Drives the need for compact, dense source material. Even with a 200K-context model, RAG pipelines typically reserve only a few thousand tokens per source. Make those tokens count.
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Source: https://geordy.ai/glossary/technical-constraints/token-budget-constraints
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