diff --git a/src/endpoints/backends/chat-completions.js b/src/endpoints/backends/chat-completions.js
index acce5acf4..c47f64bd4 100644
--- a/src/endpoints/backends/chat-completions.js
+++ b/src/endpoints/backends/chat-completions.js
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ import {
     convertMistralMessages,
     convertAI21Messages,
     mergeMessages,
+    cachingAtDepthForOpenRouterClaude,
+    cachingAtDepthForClaude,
 } from '../../prompt-converters.js';
 
 import { readSecret, SECRET_KEYS } from '../secrets.js';
@@ -145,19 +147,7 @@ async function sendClaudeRequest(request, response) {
         }
 
         if (cachingAtDepth !== -1) {
-            // There are extremely few scenarios in which caching the prefill is a good idea, it mostly just breaks everything
-            const messageCount = convertedPrompt.messages.length;
-            cachingAtDepth += convertedPrompt.messages[messageCount - 1].role === 'assistant' ? 1 : 0;
-
-            if (messageCount - 1 - cachingAtDepth >= 0) {
-                const contentCount = convertedPrompt.messages[messageCount - 1 - cachingAtDepth].content.length;
-                convertedPrompt.messages[messageCount - 1 - cachingAtDepth].content[contentCount - 1]['cache_control'] = { type: 'ephemeral' };
-            }
-
-            if (messageCount - 1 - cachingAtDepth - 2 >= 0) {
-                const contentCount = convertedPrompt.messages[messageCount - 1 - cachingAtDepth].content.length;
-                convertedPrompt.messages[messageCount - 1 - cachingAtDepth - 2].content[contentCount - 1]['cache_control'] = { type: 'ephemeral' };
-            }
+            cachingAtDepthForClaude(convertedPrompt.messages, cachingAtDepth);
         }
 
         if (enableSystemPromptCache || cachingAtDepth !== -1) {
@@ -902,43 +892,7 @@ router.post('/generate', jsonParser, function (request, response) {
 
         let cachingAtDepth = getConfigValue('claude.cachingAtDepth', -1);
         if (Number.isInteger(cachingAtDepth) && cachingAtDepth >= 0 && request.body.model.startsWith('anthropic/claude-3')) {
-            //caching the prefill is a terrible idea in general
-            let passedThePrefill = false;
-            //depth here is the number of message role switches
-            let depth = 0;
-            let previousRoleName = "";
-            for (let i = request.body.messages.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
-                if (!passedThePrefill && request.body.messages[i].role === 'assistant') {
-                    continue;
-                }
-
-                passedThePrefill = true;
-
-                if (request.body.messages[i].role !== previousRoleName) {
-                    if (depth === cachingAtDepth || depth === cachingAtDepth + 2) {
-                        const content = request.body.messages[i].content;
-                        if (typeof content === 'string') {
-                            request.body.messages[i].content = [{
-                                type: 'text',
-                                text: content,
-                                cache_control: { type: "ephemeral"},
-                            }];
-                        } else {
-                            const contentPartCount = content.length;
-                            content[contentPartCount - 1].cache_control = {
-                                type: "ephemeral"
-                            }
-                        }
-                    }
-
-                    if (depth === cachingAtDepth + 2) {
-                        break
-                    }
-
-                    depth += 1;
-                    previousRoleName = request.body.messages[i].role;
-                }
-            }
+            cachingAtDepthForOpenRouterClaude(request.body.messages, cachingAtDepth);
         }
     } else if (request.body.chat_completion_source === CHAT_COMPLETION_SOURCES.CUSTOM) {
         apiUrl = request.body.custom_url;
diff --git a/src/prompt-converters.js b/src/prompt-converters.js
index 0513e7f4a..8b78d43ef 100644
--- a/src/prompt-converters.js
+++ b/src/prompt-converters.js
@@ -718,3 +718,77 @@ export function convertTextCompletionPrompt(messages) {
     });
     return messageStrings.join('\n') + '\nassistant:';
 }
+
+export function cachingAtDepthForClaude(messages, cachingAtDepth) {
+    let passedThePrefill = false;
+    let depth = 0;
+    let previousRoleName = "";
+
+    for (let i = messages.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
+        if (!passedThePrefill && messages[i].role === 'assistant') {
+            continue;
+        }
+
+        passedThePrefill = true;
+
+        if (messages[i].role !== previousRoleName) {
+            if (depth === cachingAtDepth || depth === cachingAtDepth + 2) {
+                const content = messages[i].content;
+                content[content.length - 1].cache_control = {type: "ephemeral"};
+            }
+
+            if (depth === cachingAtDepth + 2) {
+                break;
+            }
+
+            depth += 1;
+            previousRoleName = messages[i].role;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Append cache_control headers to an OpenRouter request at depth. Directly modifies the
+ * messages array.
+ * @param {object[]} messages Array of messages
+ * @param {number} cachingAtDepth Depth at which caching is supposed to occur
+ */
+export function cachingAtDepthForOpenRouterClaude(messages, cachingAtDepth) {
+    //caching the prefill is a terrible idea in general
+    let passedThePrefill = false;
+    //depth here is the number of message role switches
+    let depth = 0;
+    let previousRoleName = "";
+    for (let i = messages.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
+        if (!passedThePrefill && messages[i].role === 'assistant') {
+            continue;
+        }
+
+        passedThePrefill = true;
+
+        if (messages[i].role !== previousRoleName) {
+            if (depth === cachingAtDepth || depth === cachingAtDepth + 2) {
+                const content = messages[i].content;
+                if (typeof content === 'string') {
+                    messages[i].content = [{
+                        type: 'text',
+                        text: content,
+                        cache_control: {type: "ephemeral"},
+                    }];
+                } else {
+                    const contentPartCount = content.length;
+                    content[contentPartCount - 1].cache_control = {
+                        type: "ephemeral"
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+
+            if (depth === cachingAtDepth + 2) {
+                break
+            }
+
+            depth += 1;
+            previousRoleName = messages[i].role;
+        }
+    }
+}