Finetune vs Prompt vs Rag
---
sidebar_position: 8
title: "Fine-tuning vs Prompting vs RAG"
description: "The decision framework people get wrong, with a try-in-this-order rule."
---
<LevelBadge level="intermediate" />
When the model doesn't do what you want, there are three levers — and people reach for the expensive one first. Here's the order that actually works.
## Try in this orderwhen to use it
Community prompt sourced from the open-source GitHub repo derob98/ailmanac (NOASSERTION). A "Finetune vs Prompt vs Rag" style prompt — adapt the placeholders and specifics to your task. Imported as-is and not independently retested here, so check the output before relying on it.
tags
roleplaycommunitygeneral
source
derob98/ailmanac · NOASSERTION