alt Hacker News25% more usage sounds about right given the other token costs are down about 20%? I don't think cache read is a big portion of the overall cost.
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re-thc • today at 4:58 PM
> I don't think cache read is a big portion of the overall cost.
For long running tasks it is. That's what made Deepseek so cheap.
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Anything with long context quickly gets dominated by cache reads. Especially for interactive sessions I’ve got cache read % between 95% and 98%.