Summary
The update applies discounts of up to 90% to eligible reused input within a 30-minute window. OpenAI also added a Prompt Caching Dashboard and diagnostics intended to help developers identify cache misses and reduce repeated processing.
Why it matters
Caching changes the economics of long-running agents, where repeated instructions, tools and context can dominate latency and inference cost.
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