This is how you cut your Claude bill

12 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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In this short tutorial, Angel Pichardo explains a cost‑saving technique for using Anthropic's Claude models. He reveals that Claude can reuse previously read text (cached prompt text) at a lower price: on the Sonnet 5.5 model cached text costs $0.10 per million tokens, whereas uncached text on Sonnet 5 costs $0.20 per million tokens. The trick is to place any invariant instructions, brand rules, or client files at the very top of the prompt and keep that segment exactly the same across calls, reusing it within a five‑minute window. By doing so, users can halve the token cost for those repeated sections. Angel ends with a call‑to‑action, asking viewers to comment "cache" to receive a five‑step checklist.

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This is how you cut your Claude bill. Most people don't know this. Claude can reuse text it already read, and reusing it costs far less. On Sonnet 5.5, that cached text costs 10 cents per million tokens. Sonnet 5 charged 20. So here's the trick. Put what never changes at the top of your prompt. Your instructions, your brand rules, your client files. Keep it exactly the same every time and reuse it within 5 minutes. Comment cache and I'll send you the 5-step checklist.