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The Inference Tax: How Prefix-Aware Routing Eliminates the Hidden Cost of LLMs at Scale
vLLM prefix caching and prefix-aware KV cache routing eliminate redundant LLM prefill costs at scale. Learn how DigitalOcean Serverless Inference reduces GPU compute waste by up to 4x on the same hardware.
By Piyush SrivastavaDigitalOcean Blog

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Originally published by DigitalOcean Blog on Jun 1, 2026.
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