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A year after GraphRAG left the lab, one statistic holds: it works where corporate information has dense relational structure, fails where there are only loose documents. Patterns, ingestion costs, and architectural decisions that have survived a year of real deployment.
Knowledge graphs spent two decades waiting for their moment. With LLMs now bridging free text and formal ontology, and the GraphRAG pattern already mature, the technology is back in the spotlight. Time to look at why it finally fits and where it actually pays off.
GraphRAG has been in real enterprise use for over a year: during indexing, an LLM builds a knowledge graph that answers global questions about a corpus well, precisely where classic RAG fails because no single chunk holds the full answer. Here I compare indexing costs, the cases where it pays off, and the hybrid pattern that teams have settled on.
