Caches

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What is caches?

Caches are storage systems that save and reuse exact LLM requests. You can enable caches to reduce LLM costs and improve response times.

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Why Caches?

You may find caches useful when you want to:

• Reduce latency: Serve stored responses instantly, eliminating the need for repeated API calls.
• Save costs: Minimize expenses by reusing cached responses instead of making redundant requests.

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How to use Caches?

Turn on caches by setting cache_enabled to true. We currently will cache the whole conversation, including the system message, user message and the response.

See the example below, we will cache the user message “Hi, how are you?” and its response.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.keywordsai.co/api/",
    api_key="YOUR_KEYWORDSAI_API_KEY",
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="gpt-4o-mini",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Tell me a long story"}
    ],
    extra_body={
        "cache_enabled": True,
        "cache_ttl": 600,
        "cache_options": {
            "cache_by_customer": True
        }
    }
)

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Caches parameters

{
    "cache_enabled": true
}

{
    "cache_ttl": 3600 // in seconds
}

{
    "cache_options": { // optional
        "cache_by_customer": true, // or false
        "omit_log": true // or false
    }
}

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How to view caches

You can view the caches on the Logs page. The model tag will be keywordsai/cache. You can also filter the logs by the Cache hit field.

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Omit logs when cache hit

You can omit the logs when cache hit by setting the omit_logs parameter to true or go to Caches in Settings.

So this won’t generate a new LLM log when the cache is hit.

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LLM caching vs Prompt caching

Regular caching stores complete prompt responses. When the same prompt is received, the system returns the stored response, reducing costs but limiting response variety.

Prompt caching stores the model’s intermediate computation state. This allows the model to generate diverse responses while still saving computational costs, as it doesn’t need to reprocess the entire prompt from scratch. View the Prompt caching section for more information.