--- title: 13 RAG chunking strategies for better retrieval | daily.dev description: A comprehensive breakdown of 13 RAG chunking strategies, covering fixed-length, sentence-based, semantic, paragraph, sliding window, recursive, hierarchical,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/13-rag-chunking-strategies-for-better-retrieval-0w1vk9pay twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 13 RAG chunking strategies for better retrieval | daily.dev og:description: A comprehensive breakdown of 13 RAG chunking strategies, covering fixed-length, sentence-based, semantic, paragraph, sliding window, recursive, hierarchical,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/13-rag-chunking-strategies-for-better-retrieval-0w1vk9pay og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/0W1vk9pay.png og:image:alt: 13 RAG chunking strategies for better retrieval og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 13 RAG chunking strategies for better retrieval **[Meilisearch](https://daily.dev/sources/meilisearch)** · 26 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A comprehensive breakdown of 13 RAG chunking strategies, covering fixed-length, sentence-based, semantic, paragraph, sliding window, recursive, hierarchical, context-enriched, topic-based, modality-specific, agentic, subdocument, and hybrid approaches. Each strategy includes pros, cons, best-fit use cases, and Python implementation examples. Also covers how to choose chunk size, overlap guidelines (10–20%), evaluation methods using precision and recall, common mistakes like boundary problems and context loss, and best practices for balancing cost, accuracy, and complexity. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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