[SwellJoe]

While Anthropic is far behind on caching and efficiency (made more dramatically apparent by how much cheaper it is to use GPT 5.6 Sol at API rates than even Opus 4.8, much less Fable), a bunch of people forcing their way to the front of the queue at the expense of everyone else isn't going to solve that.

[skeledrew]

They definitely aren't. Over 98% of my tokens over the last 6 month have been cache reads (did an analysis just a couple days ago), which has made my Pro plan highly valuable.

[SwellJoe]

I certainly don't see much in the way of cached token rates when I use the API, whereas when I use DeepSeek via API, it's mostly at the cached token rate.