{"i":7,"slug":"caching-consistency","chart":{"id":"caching-cost-with-without","title":"List-price cost of 5-question sessions with and without the cache (calculation)","subtitle":"All recorded turns per model; the same reported tokens priced two ways","kind":"grouped-bar","unit":"usd","yLabel":"USD (list price)","series":[{"name":"With the cache, as recorded","points":[{"label":"Claude Sonnet 5.5 · Claude Code","value":0.135003,"n":15},{"label":"Claude Opus 5.5 · Claude Code","value":0.255057,"n":15}]},{"name":"Without a cache: every input token at the input price","points":[{"label":"Claude Sonnet 5.5 · Claude Code","value":0.269788,"n":15},{"label":"Claude Opus 5.5 · Claude Code","value":0.544228,"n":15}]}],"note":"Calculation, not a bill: the calls ran on a subscription. Cache reads at the cache-read price, 1-hour cache writes at 2× the input price (every write in this run was a 1-hour write). Codex CLI is not priced here: it reports no cache-write count.","sourceIds":["agent-caching-consistency","calc-cache-pricing","price-anthropic"]}}