Build Hour: Prompt Caching

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OpenAI. OpenAI's own Build Hour on prompt caching — the 1024-token threshold, the prefix-stability requirement, steep audio-caching discounts for realtime (check the current pricing page for the exact rate), time-to-first-token impacts at long inputs. Useful when you are sizing the engineering effort to actually hit the cache reliably on your production prompts.

AI Expert note

Well under our view bar but it's the official deep dive; the 1024-token threshold and prefix-stability rules decide whether caching works for you at all, and current rates live on the pricing page.

What you should get from this

Use prompt caching only when stable prefixes, latency and cost behavior match the workload.

Watch or know first

You should already be shipping prompts against the OpenAI API — the session is about hitting the cache reliably in production.

Last reviewed: May 18, 2026

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