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According to Anthropic's published prices (input $10, output $50, cache read $1, cache write $12.50 per million tokens), the example session in the article costs $16.88, of which cache reads account for 29.6%, cache writes 25.9%, fresh input 14.8%, and output 29.6%.
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10/13/2026
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Valid until: 10/27/2026
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UnverifiedSending the same 16,500-token request twice costs 2.6 cents to write the cache the first time, while reading from the cache the second time costs only one-third of a cent—nearly 8 times cheaper.77% similarUnverifiedThe task produced approximately 716,000 output tokens, approximately 43 million cache input reads, and approximately 1.5 million cache writes.76% similarUnverifiedUltraFast's standard cache read price has risen to $6 per million tokens, with an additional cache read price of $7575% similarUnverifiedUsing a model priced at $15/M tokens for file read/write operations is functionally equivalent to using a model priced at $0.25/M tokens for the same task, but costs 60 times more.74% similar
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