RAG, Fine-Tuning & ContextElias Lumer et al.

Don't Break the Cache

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Published "Don't Break the Cache" — measured prompt caching in the APIs of 3 providers: cost savings of 41–80%, though latency can increase depending on the placement strategy

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The first measurement comparing the 3 providers under identical conditions since caching became a product

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Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06007

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