AI Glossary term

Prompt Caching

Reusing the processed form of a repeated chunk of prompt instead of paying to process it again.

Also called: caching

Reusing the processed form of a repeated chunk of prompt instead of paying to process it again.

Why it mattersLong system prompts and big documents get much cheaper and faster on repeat calls.

See also Token, Context Window

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