85% of Agent Token Burn Is Cached Prompt. shell.online's Counter Read 99% Before It Dropped Cache Reads
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On August 21, a16z's Charts of the Week ran OpenRouter data with a line that should bother anyone who puts a token count on a dashboard: "More than 85% of agentic token burn comes from the cached prompt." The same note says agents use nearly 5x as many tokens as humans on that network, and that age…
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- 2026-09-18 16:04 · DEV Community — AI
85% of Agent Token Burn Is Cached Prompt. shell.online's Counter Read 99% Before It Dropped Cache Reads