Tooling
Anthropic's Prompt Cache Costs 12.5× More on Miss—Five Hidden Triggers
Prompt caching in Claude Code offers 10× cheaper reads but 1.25× pricier writes on cache misses. Five common mid-session actions silently invalidate the cache, multiplying your token bill.
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Anthropic's prompt caching feature offers a dramatic cost reduction for repeated prefixes—but only if you don't accidentally invalidate the cache mid-session. According to Anthropic's pricing model, cache read tokens cost 0.1× the base input rate, while cache write tokens (invalidations) cost 1.25× ...
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- r/claudecode
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