by Amit Shekhar · 8 July 2026
How does Semantic Caching work?
How Semantic Caching works. We will also see why traditional caching falls short for AI apps, how Semantic Caching uses embeddings and similarity to reuse past answers, and how setting the right threshold makes it work in the real world.
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What this article covers
- What is a cache?
- The problem with traditional caching for AI apps
- What is Semantic Caching?
- What are embeddings?
- What is similarity between embeddings?
- How does Semantic Caching work step by step?
- A numeric walkthrough
- Setting the similarity threshold
- Advantages of Semantic Caching
- Things to keep in mind
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