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.
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.
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.