Claude Code's API billing depends on how often the cache expires
Hello, HN! I’m Max, CTO at Hystax. We use Claude a lot in our development work, and we’re also trying to make coding agents cheaper to run. We built the open-source Kompressor for compressing identical tool outputs that agents constantly resend. In our Codex tests, we noticed a real cost reduction of 22.7%. But testing it with Claude Code, we found something completely different. In Claude Code, the cache plays a more crucial role than compression. Claude Code marks its messages with caching poi
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来源描述：Hello, HN! I’m Max, CTO at Hystax. We use Claude a lot in our development work, and we’re also trying to make coding agents cheaper to run. We built the open-source Kompressor for compressing identical tool outputs that agents constantly resend. In our Codex tests, we noticed a real cost reduction of 22.7%. But testing it with Claude Code, we found something completely different. In Claude Code, the cache plays a more crucial role than compression. Claude Code marks its messages with caching poi
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