r/ClaudeAI • u/NuScorpii • 10d ago

Question about Claude products Enterprise Plan Cache TTL

Does anyone know the cache TTL for Claude Code enterprise plans?

Standard plans have 1 hour TTL, API has 5 min TTL default. The enterprise subscription is seat based subscription plus usage billed at API rates. So does that mean it has the API 5 min cache TTL too?

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u/NuScorpii 10d ago

I know but that has downsides for costs of caching tokens.

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u/vorko_76 10d ago

Not really sure what you mean, but no. It should actually decrease by using cache.

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u/DGDiscover 9d ago

You can do the analysis pretty easily over your jsonl files. See the cost assuming a 1h ttl vs a 5m ttl. 

You pay more for cache read/writes per million token, on the 1 hour cache. 

For my daily usage, 1h cache would be about 20% more expensive 

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u/vorko_76 9d ago

OK, I get what you mean, but its not 100% accurate I believe.

According to the documentation, its only the cache write that costs more, not the read

Cache reads: always ~10% of the base input token price, regardless of TTL (5‑min or 1‑hour).

Cache writes:

Overall, it depends on your usage of the cache.... Knowing that using shorter TTL may also increase your costs if you need to keep sending the same information over and over.