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Prompt caching cuts agent API costs 41-80%, but only if tool results stay out of the cache
An arXiv evaluation across OpenAI, Anthropic and Google reports that naive full-context caching can raise latency, while excluding dynamic tool results gives more consistent gains.
Publishers:arxiv.org
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