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The Multilingual Cache Tax: How a token-count cache threshold turns cross-lingual token inflation into an escapable, provider-dependent pricing artifact

Commercial LLM APIs bill a cached prompt prefix at a fraction of the normal input rate, but only once the prefix exceeds a fixed token count (a floor, commonly 1,024 tokens). Because the same content costs a different number of tokens in different languages, this token-denominate...

The Multilingual Cache Tax: How a token-count cache threshold turns cross-lingual token inflation into an escapable, provider-dependent pricing artifact

Commercial LLM APIs bill a cached prompt prefix at a fraction of the normal input rate, but only once the prefix exceeds a fixed token count (a floor, commonly 1,024 tokens). Because the same content costs a different number of tokens in different languages, this token-denominate...