From d9a92227a5be32ba3b2a47c50c9a7be4bbb330e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Frings <andreas.frings@lex-com.net>
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2026 12:36:41 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix: also normalise index for cache-hit items in embedding
 merge

---
 litellm/caching/caching_handler.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/litellm/caching/caching_handler.py b/litellm/caching/caching_handler.py
index 5f251df081f..471c1ab0d07 100644
--- a/litellm/caching/caching_handler.py
+++ b/litellm/caching/caching_handler.py
@@ -631,6 +631,8 @@ class LLMCachingHandler:
                 final_data_list.append(api_item)
                 idx += 1
             else:
+                if item is not None:
+                    item["index"] = pos
                 final_data_list.append(item)
 
         _caching_handler_response.final_embedding_cached_response.data = final_data_list