Anthropic silently downgraded cache TTL from 1h → 5M on March 6th

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/46829

Cache TTL silently regressed from 1h to 5m around early March 2026, causing quota and cost inflation · Issue #46829 · anthropics/claude-code

Cache TTL appears to have silently regressed from 1h to 5m around early March 2026, causing significant quota and cost inflation Summary Analysis of raw Claude Code session JSONL files spanning Jan...

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On slightly off topic note: Codex is absolutely fantastic right now. I'm constantly in awe since switching from Claude a week ago.
I made this switch months ago, ChatGPT 5.4 being a smarter model, but I’ve had subjective feelings of degradation even on 5.4 lately. There’s a lot of growth in usage right now so not sure what kind of optimizations their doing at both companies