Tag: cost

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• Your Cache Hit Rate Is Not Your Token Savings

  Published:Sep 17, 2026 |  at 06:00 AM

  Measure uncached input, cache writes, cache reads and output separately. Request hit rate cannot tell you what a long-context workload costs.

• The Cost of Context: Measure the Work, Not Just the Window

  Updated:Sep 17, 2026 |  at 06:00 AM

  Compare long context and retrieval using actual token categories, latency and task quality. A larger window is capacity; its value depends on the workload.