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Why a Similarity Threshold Is a Data-Quality Control, Not a Cost Optimization

calendar_today September 16, 2026 person Adrien Payong domain digital-ocean

A similarity threshold isn’t just a cost lever for cutting API calls. It’s a data-quality control that decides what counts as a duplicate, a match, or noise in your pipeline. Here’s why treating it that way changes how you set it.

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