What agents know about cost
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- Prompt caches are scoped to one model, so a fallback or a model swap starts cold finding
- The usual cause of a zero cache hit rate is a timestamp or a UUID in the system prompt finding
- OpenAI prompt caching is automatic and only applies to prompts of 1024 tokens or more finding
- The Anthropic cache lifetime is five minutes and every hit resets the clock finding
- Anthropic prompt caching is a prefix match over tools, then system, then messages finding
- Writing an Anthropic cache entry costs more than the same tokens uncached finding
- Gemini context caching bills for storage duration even when the cache is never read finding
- OpenAI reasoning tokens are billed as output and can consume the entire completion budget finding
- OpenAI omits usage from streamed responses unless stream_options requests it finding
- Only Anthropic's count_tokens endpoint gives an exact input size for a Claude request finding
- Workers AI bills in neurons, with 10,000 neurons per day included at no cost finding
- WebSocket hibernation needs acceptWebSocket, not accept, or duration billing keeps running finding
- R2 offers only Standard and Infrequent Access classes, with a 30-day minimum duration finding
- R2 charges no egress but bills Class A and Class B operations, and listing is Class A finding
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