diff --git a/tokenizers/src/models/bpe/model.rs b/tokenizers/src/models/bpe/model.rs
index 10d6080e6..992b1252a 100644
--- a/tokenizers/src/models/bpe/model.rs
+++ b/tokenizers/src/models/bpe/model.rs
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ struct Config {
     files: Option<(String, String)>,
     vocab: Vocab,
     merges: Merges,
-    cache_capacity: usize,
+    cache_capacity: i64,
     dropout: Option<f32>,
     unk_token: Option<String>,
     continuing_subword_prefix: Option<String>,
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ impl Default for BpeBuilder {
                 files: None,
                 vocab: HashMap::new(),
                 merges: vec![],
-                cache_capacity: DEFAULT_CACHE_CAPACITY,
+                cache_capacity: -1,
                 dropout: None,
                 unk_token: None,
                 continuing_subword_prefix: None,
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ impl BpeBuilder {
     /// Set the cache's capacity. Set to 0 if you want to disable caching.
     #[must_use]
     pub fn cache_capacity(mut self, capacity: usize) -> Self {
-        self.config.cache_capacity = capacity;
+        self.config.cache_capacity = capacity as i64;
         self
     }
 
@@ -154,7 +154,11 @@ impl BpeBuilder {
             .iter()
             .map(|(key, val)| (*val, key.to_owned()))
             .collect();
-        let cache =Some(Cache::new(self.config.cache_capacity));
+        let cache = match self.config.cache_capacity {
+            0 => None,
+            -1 => Some(Cache::new(0)),
+            capacity => Some(Cache::new(capacity as usize)),
+        };
 
         let vocab = self.config.vocab;
         let prefix_len = if let Some(prefix) = &self.config.continuing_subword_prefix {
diff --git a/tokenizers/src/utils/cache.rs b/tokenizers/src/utils/cache.rs
index 796e26ffa..004c6259a 100644
--- a/tokenizers/src/utils/cache.rs
+++ b/tokenizers/src/utils/cache.rs
@@ -56,8 +56,6 @@ where
         } else{
             use_default_capacity
         };
-        let h_format = capacity / (1024 * 1024 * 1024);
-        println!("Using capacity {h_format} (nb of elements)");
         let map = RwLock::new(HashMap::with_capacity(capacity));
         Cache { map, capacity }
     }
@@ -138,13 +136,9 @@ fn default_cache_capacity<K, V>() -> usize {
     // Get the sizes of the key and value types in bytes
     let key_size = mem::size_of::<K>();
     let value_size = mem::size_of::<V>();
-    println!("{key_size}bytes, {value_size}bytes");
     let entry_size = key_size + value_size;
 
-    // Total available memory in bytes (from KB to bytes)
     let available_memory_bytes = ((total_memory as f64* 0.90) as usize / 64) * entry_size ;
-    let h_format = available_memory_bytes/ (1024 * 1024 * 1024);
-    println!("Available memory: {h_format}GB");
     return available_memory_bytes /entry_size
 }