API context caching on disk
Automatic disk-based prefix caching on the DeepSeek API: cache hits billed at $0.014 per million tokens, up to 90% cheaper than a miss.
Repeated prompt prefixes are cached on disk and served at a fraction of the price with no code change. DeepSeek's cache hit/miss pricing became a template for later cheap long-context agent workloads.
- Date
- Friday, 2 August 2024
- Lab
- DeepSeek
- Kind
- feature
- Access
- closed API
- Price
- Cache hit $0.014/M vs miss $0.14/M input (2024-08-02)
Figures
| Measure | Value | Measured by |
|---|---|---|
| Cache-hit input price | $0.014/M tokens vs $0.14/M for a miss (V2-era pricing) | company |
Sources
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