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The 1M Context Window vs Prompt Caching: When to Use Which

1M context costs full price on every query, caching cuts repeated tokens to 1/10 Use 1M for one-shot deep dives, caching for repeated calls against fixed docs Hybrid: cache the stable 80%, stream the dynamic 20% fresh Real numbers from...

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  • 1M context costs full price on every query, caching cuts repeated tokens to 1/10
  • Use 1M for one-shot deep dives, caching for repeated calls against fixed docs
  • Hybrid: cache the stable 80%, stream the dynamic 20% fresh

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