Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Cache Horse: An HTTP cache/batch service
Hi, I'm fiiv, and I'm the creator of Cache Horse. I built it because I wanted an easy plug-n-play solution to caching and simplifying HTTP requests - in particular, on frontend. First, I was fetching data like daily weather, historic currency exchange numbers, air quality readings - and many of those APIs have quota limits. And second, since I was already caching them, I thought it would be useful to batch them together - so I built that feature in. I would love to hear your feedback and thoughts on the project. Thanks!
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Fast, secure, configurable. A bold new take on Nix caching.
2024 · determinate.systems · its alternatives →
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A high performance HTTP proxy cache server and RESTful NoSQL cache server based on HAProxy - jiangwenyuan/nuster
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Raymond here from Butter.dev, an LLM response cache built as a chat-completions proxy. Today we're launching a key feature for the platform: the ability to generalize on dynamic, templated inputs. Caching at the HTTP request level has the obvious problem of generalizability. Nearly no request is identical, due to templated variables (like names) and metadata (like timestamps), so exact-match cache lookups rarely hit. We solve this at Butter by using LLMs to detect dynamic content in requests and derive their inter-relationships, allowing the cache entry to be stored as a template + variables…
Jan 2026 · blog.butter.dev · its alternatives →
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2018 · stackshare.io · its alternatives →
- 6IM
Primarily built this to learn how NextJS works and also a bit about Tailwind CSS. Also has request caching using the WebCache API + expiration which is quite a hacky implementation. Let me know what you think! Source is at https://github.com/say4n/hn, pull requests welcome!
2023 · hn.sayan.page · its alternatives →
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Hey all, I recently published this Go package, and would like to show off as well as get feedback!
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The weekend of last week I built chat.betterdb.com as a RAG over Valkey/Redis/Dragonfly docs. The goal was to eat our own dogfood and test publicly our caching libraries. It also saved me from having to come up with various demo/test scenarios, as I could extend the building in public to the demo. There is a tool-result cache sitting between the SDK and tools. Each call is normalized and then checked before executing. If it hits we return from the cache, and if not, we check the semantic cache, which embeds the prompt and checks with KNN via valkey-search. If the cosine…
May 2026 · its alternatives →
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Have a look at my semantic caching project! It's built to easily integrate in existing LLM workflows, you can use it as a proxy where the cache forwards missed requests without modification to a specified upstream, automatically updating it's cache with the response. You can also use it as a cache-aside cache with a provided python library. It works by computing embedding vectors of input queries, and matches them to seen query + response pairs using a vector store. Everything is in-memory, so it should be blazing fast :)
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, Erik here. Today we launch Butter, an OpenAI-compatible API proxy that caches LLM generations and serves them deterministically on revisit. Since April, we’ve been working on this concept of “muscle memory,” or deterministic replay, for agent systems performing automations. You may recall our first post in May, launching a python package called Muscle Mem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43988381 Since then, the product has evolved entirely, now taking the form of an LLM Proxy. For a deep dive into this process, check out:…
2025 · docs.butter.dev · its alternatives →
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High-performance cache policies and supporting data structures for Rust systems, with optional metrics and benchmarks. - OxidizeLabs/cachekit
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A Python Library for Efficient LLM Query Caching
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! We're building a caching solution for LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude). By combining cutting-edge approaches, such as edge computing, prompt compression, vectorization, and others - it can reduce your AI bills by up to 10x and significantly lower response times. Key Features: - cost efficiency: our system stores frequent queries, reducing the number of upstream (paid) API calls - fast responses: with various nodes globally, we reduce latency by serving data from the nearest location - scalability: designed to handle increasing loads and data sizes without degrading performance. The cache…
2024 · edgematic.dev · its alternatives →
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Caching reverse proxy for testing written in Go. Contribute to nickpresta/chameleon development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I was curious if anyone was using HTML5 features like the appCache or localStorage to create some kind of client side cache of rendered pages of a dynamic website, and then using a technology like Firebase or a WebSockets implementation to... | Ninjas and Robots | Engineer, Designer, Founder | Found
2012 · ninjasandrobots.com · its alternatives →
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A comprehensive caching and performance plugin for WordPress
2017 · poweredcache.com · its alternatives →
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Generative AI applications pose a unique challenge in production. They are computationally intensive and orders of magnitude slower than traditional data-intensive applications. Scaling these applications is further complicated by expensive hardware requirements and GPU shortages. Consequently, developers are scrambling to implement home-grown caching and rate-limiting solutions, which are error-prone and difficult to get right. FluxNinja Aperture delivers a production-grade experience with a purpose-built load management platform that provides rate & concurrency limiting, caching, and…
2024 · fluxninja.com · its alternatives →
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I was not getting good cache utilization when including dynamic context in agent threads. After a lot of experimentation, I found a good pattern that minimizes how often long lived conversation history gets modified while still supporting dynamic context. It has flexible hooks for doing things like truncating or summarizing tool outputs when transitioning messages to the long term history. And I'm seeing >>90% of tokens hitting the cache for my agents despite including a lot of dynamic user context. There are a wide range of agent prompting strategies so I'd love to hear where this library…
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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While building a chat application I couldn't find find a free and opensource tool to store user sessions. This led to redcache-ai. The tool helps with semantic search, Retrieval Augmented Generation(RAG) and storage. This is an early version undergoing rapid iteration. Happy to answer questions and hear feedback.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Aproxymade▲10Boost your REST API speed and cut server costs with Aproxymade. Our AI-driven caching platform makes your Web apps faster, scalable, and more efficient.
Jun 2026 · aproxymade.com · its alternatives →
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Checking on some old material to provide some cross-referencing[1] I got this message: We've temporarily limited requests for old items. I've always taken it for granted that HN contained useful information that I'd be able to retrieve whenever I found the need, but this has brought me up short. Perhaps older discussions will eventually become unavailable. Will Google cache still have them? Will the Wayback machine still have them? How convenient will they be to find in the future. Probably this is a temporary glitch to prevent some overly enthusiastic crawler from bringing the site to a…
2012 · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone, I wanted to see if I could build something like DataFa.st myself, so I made MochiAnalytics. I'm pretty happy with how it's turning out. It’s got all the bells and whistles a small team or solo founder would need to track campaigns and to see which channel is driving revenue. It’s a cheaper analytics tool for side projects, indie hackers, and small apps. I honestly wish I could make it free, but it still needs servers, a database, and a backend to keep event ingestion running 24/7, so there are real costs behind it. I’m still working on it and will keep adding more features…
Jul 2026 · mochianalytics.com · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone! I am excited to share updates on four of my & my teams' open-source projects that take large-scale search systems to the next level: USearch, UForm, UCall, and StringZilla. These projects are designed to work seamlessly together, end-to-end—covering everything from indexing and AI to storage and networking. And yeah, they're optimized for x86 AVX2/512 and Arm NEON/SVE hardware. USearch [1]: Think of it as Meta FAISS on steroids. It's now quicker, supports clustering of any granularity, and offers multi-index lookups. Plus, it's got more native bindings than probably…
2023 · usearch-images.com · its alternatives →
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