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Claude Code caching strategy can mislead developers on costs

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A developer on dev.to has highlighted how cache hit rates for LLMs like Claude Code can be misleading due to varying caller mixes. The post explains that different types of requests, such as agent tasks versus routine cron jobs, can drastically skew account-level cache performance. It details how caching costs are determined by three multipliers (write, read, and TTL) and advises matching the Time-To-Live (TTL) to the actual gap between calls, suggesting that a blanket one-hour TTL can be less cost-effective than a five-minute tier for most use cases. AI

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Claude Code caching strategy can mislead developers on costs

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · The Agent Loop ·

    Your cache hit rate is lying to you. It's the caller mix.

    <h1> Your cache hit rate is lying to you. It's the caller mix. </h1> <p>One Claude Code deployment: <strong>77% cache hit rate</strong>, all green. Same account, one tab over, cron tasks at <strong>~0%</strong>, because every run is a fresh session rewriting a ~30K-token static p…

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