Anthropic's 5-Min Prompt Cache TTL Makes LLM Bills Up to 25% More Expensive
gethackteam · x · 2026-08-15
A tweet points out that Anthropic's prompt cache default 5-minute TTL makes LLM token bills up to 25% more expensive, as you pay for cache writes for context that can only be read from cache for 5 minutes.
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