5 Core Differences in OpenAI and Claude Cache Billing: A Deep Comparison of 90% vs 75% Discounts
The biggest cost sink in running LLM applications isn't output tokens—it's the redundant retransmission of system prompts and long documents. Both OpenAI and Anthropic have provided a solution: prompt caching. However, their billing philosophies are completely different: OpenAI follows a "zero-configuration, moderate discount" path, while Claude follows an "explicit declaration, deep discount" path. This article…
