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Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

Anthropic just cut cache TTL. Here's why your Claude integration costs more now.

Reporting by Hacker News 1 min brief
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Why it matters

Anthropic reduced prompt caching time-to-live (TTL), forcing developers to re-cache contexts more frequently. This is a stealth cost increase and operational change for builders relying on Claude's caching for cost efficiency.

The key facts

10 to know

  1. Cache TTL downgrade deployed March 6, 2026

  2. Change surfaced via GitHub issue #46829 (Claude Code repo)

  3. Community discussion on HN: 330 points, 241 comments

  4. Impact: increased API calls and compute costs for cached prompt reuse

  5. Affects developers using Claude for long-context or repetitive tasks

  6. Cache TTL downgrade announced March 6, 2026

  7. Change surfaced via GitHub issue (claude-code repo)

  8. 330 points, 241 comments on HackerNews — high community signal of concern

  9. Affects prompt caching cost model for Claude API users

  10. Likely impacts batch processing, long-context workflows, RAG systems with cached embeddings

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Publisher excerpt: Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 330 # Comments: 241
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