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Anthropic's long-context pricing documentation states that requests exceeding the threshold are billed at the higher price even if part of the prompt hits the cache.
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10/18/2026
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Valid until: 1/16/2027
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UnverifiedIncluding large amounts of conversation history or background documents (long context) in each request causes costs to accumulate in a non-linear manner.72% similarUnverifiedThe trade-off of the Max tier configuration is higher token costs and longer response latency.72% similarUnverifiedThe higher the cache hit rate, the closer the actual billing is to the cache price rather than the full input price, which can reduce costs by an order of magnitude.70% similarUnverifiedAnthropic offers differentiated pricing for different cache durations, including a higher-priced caching service lasting up to one hour.69% similar
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