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🚀 cachex

Save up to 90% on your LLM API costs with automatic prompt caching optimization.

GitHub stars License: MIT Python 3.10+

The Problem

Anthropic, OpenAI, and other LLM providers now offer prompt caching - you pay 90% less for tokens that are cached. But most developers:

  • ❌ Don't know how to structure prompts for optimal caching
  • ❌ Manually optimize each prompt (time-consuming and error-prone)
  • ❌ Have no visibility into cache performance
  • ❌ Miss opportunities to reduce costs

Result: You're paying 5-10x more than necessary for the same API calls.

The Solution

Prompt Cache Optimizer automatically:

Analyzes your prompts to find caching opportunities
Optimizes prompt structure for maximum cache efficiency
Monitors cache performance in real-time
Reports actual dollar savings

Quick Start

Installation

pip install cachex

Analyze Your Prompts

# Analyze a directory
cachex analyze ./your_project

# Output:
# 💰 Potential savings: $2,847/month (87% reduction)
# 📊 Cacheable tokens: 45,231 / 52,000
# 🎯 Top opportunities:
#   1. System prompt (15K tokens) - used 1,240x - save $1,200/mo
#   2. Few-shot examples (8K tokens) - used 890x - save $680/mo

Optimize Automatically

from cachex import optimize

# Before: inefficient prompt structure
prompt = f"{system_prompt}\n{user_query}\n{examples}"

# After: automatically optimized
optimized = optimize(prompt)
# Restructured to: {system_prompt}\n{examples}\n{user_query}
# Result: 90% of tokens cached, massive savings

Drop-in Replacement

# LangChain integration
from cachex.langchain import OptimizedChatAnthropic

llm = OptimizedChatAnthropic()  # Zero code changes, automatic optimization
chain = llm | prompt | parser

Features

🔍 Analysis

  • Static code analysis to detect prompt patterns
  • Runtime analysis of actual API calls
  • Identify what changes vs what stays static
  • Calculate potential savings in dollars

⚡ Optimization

  • Automatic prompt restructuring
  • Multiple optimization strategies
  • Validates optimized prompts work correctly
  • Provider-specific optimizations (Anthropic, OpenAI)

📊 Monitoring

  • Real-time cache hit rate tracking
  • Historical cost analytics
  • Alerts when efficiency drops
  • Beautiful CLI and web dashboards

🔌 Integrations

  • Anthropic Claude (full support)
  • OpenAI GPT-4 (full support)
  • LangChain (drop-in adapters)
  • LlamaIndex (drop-in adapters)
  • Raw API calls (works with any provider)

Real Results

"Reduced our monthly Claude bill from $4,200 to $580 with zero code changes"
— AI Startup founder

"The analysis alone paid for itself - we found $12K/year in wasted spending"
— ML Engineer at Series B company

How It Works

1. Detect Cache Boundaries

The optimizer analyzes your prompts to identify:

  • Static content (system prompts, examples) → cache these
  • Semi-static content (RAG context with reuse) → cache intelligently
  • Dynamic content (user queries) → never cache

2. Restructure for Caching

# ❌ Before: Poor caching (most tokens not cached)
prompt = f"""
{user_query}          # Changes every time (dynamic)
{system_prompt}       # Static - should be first!
{few_shot_examples}   # Static - should be cached!
"""

# ✅ After: Optimal caching (90% tokens cached)
prompt = f"""
{system_prompt}       # Static first → cached
{few_shot_examples}   # Static next → cached
{user_query}          # Dynamic last → only this changes
"""

3. Monitor & Report

cachex monitor

# Live dashboard shows:
# Cache hit rate: 87.3% ⬆️ +5.2%
# Tokens cached: 45,231 / 52,000
# Cost today: $12.40 (saved $85.60)
# Cost this month: $580 (saved $3,620)

Use Cases

  • 🤖 Chatbots: Cache system prompts and conversation history
  • 📚 RAG Systems: Cache document context that's frequently reused
  • 🔧 Agents: Cache tool descriptions and examples
  • 📝 Content Generation: Cache templates and style guides
  • 💬 Customer Support: Cache company knowledge base

Roadmap

  • Core analysis engine
  • CLI tool
  • Anthropic integration
  • OpenAI integration (Week 8)
  • LangChain adapters (Week 7)
  • Web dashboard (Week 12)
  • Team collaboration (Month 4)
  • Enterprise features (Month 6)

Documentation

Contributing

We welcome contributions! See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

Good first issues: Look for the good-first-issue label

Support

License

MIT License - see LICENSE for details

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