diff --git a/crates/polars-lazy/src/frame/mod.rs b/crates/polars-lazy/src/frame/mod.rs
index 535a557b0c02..ab1f1bc1835c 100644
--- a/crates/polars-lazy/src/frame/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/polars-lazy/src/frame/mod.rs
@@ -619,10 +619,6 @@ impl LazyFrame {
             // The new streaming engine can't deal with the way the common
             // subexpression elimination adds length-incorrect with_columns.
             opt_state &= !OptFlags::COMM_SUBEXPR_ELIM;
-
-            // The new streaming engine can't yet deal with the cache nodes
-            // introduced by common subplan elimination.
-            opt_state &= !OptFlags::COMM_SUBPLAN_ELIM;
         }
 
         let lp_top = optimize(
diff --git a/crates/polars-stream/src/physical_plan/lower_ir.rs b/crates/polars-stream/src/physical_plan/lower_ir.rs
index bad63a0e767b..05cdd8864b80 100644
--- a/crates/polars-stream/src/physical_plan/lower_ir.rs
+++ b/crates/polars-stream/src/physical_plan/lower_ir.rs
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ pub fn lower_ir(
     phys_sm: &mut SlotMap<PhysNodeKey, PhysNode>,
     schema_cache: &mut PlHashMap<Node, Arc<Schema>>,
     expr_cache: &mut ExprCache,
+    cache_nodes: &mut PlHashMap<usize, PhysNodeKey>,
 ) -> PolarsResult<PhysNodeKey> {
     // Helper macro to simplify recursive calls.
     macro_rules! lower_ir {
@@ -97,6 +98,7 @@ pub fn lower_ir(
                 phys_sm,
                 schema_cache,
                 expr_cache,
+                cache_nodes,
             )
         };
     }
@@ -431,7 +433,22 @@ pub fn lower_ir(
 
         #[cfg(feature = "python")]
         IR::PythonScan { .. } => todo!(),
-        IR::Cache { .. } => todo!(),
+
+        IR::Cache {
+            input,
+            id,
+            cache_hits: _,
+        } => {
+            let id = *id;
+            if let Some(cached) = cache_nodes.get(&id) {
+                return Ok(*cached);
+            }
+
+            let phys_input = lower_ir!(*input)?;
+            cache_nodes.insert(id, phys_input);
+            return Ok(phys_input);
+        },
+
         IR::GroupBy {
             input,
             keys,
diff --git a/crates/polars-stream/src/physical_plan/mod.rs b/crates/polars-stream/src/physical_plan/mod.rs
index c5f679c7fe56..217131b18b03 100644
--- a/crates/polars-stream/src/physical_plan/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/polars-stream/src/physical_plan/mod.rs
@@ -253,6 +253,7 @@ pub fn build_physical_plan(
 ) -> PolarsResult<PhysNodeKey> {
     let mut schema_cache = PlHashMap::with_capacity(ir_arena.len());
     let mut expr_cache = ExprCache::with_capacity(expr_arena.len());
+    let mut cache_nodes = PlHashMap::new();
     let phys_root = lower_ir::lower_ir(
         root,
         ir_arena,
@@ -260,6 +261,7 @@ pub fn build_physical_plan(
         phys_sm,
         &mut schema_cache,
         &mut expr_cache,
+        &mut cache_nodes,
     )?;
     let mut referenced = SecondaryMap::with_capacity(phys_sm.capacity());
     insert_multiplexers(phys_root, phys_sm, &mut referenced);
diff --git a/py-polars/tests/unit/lazyframe/test_lazyframe.py b/py-polars/tests/unit/lazyframe/test_lazyframe.py
index 4aafc9d523ee..5ef0b65deba8 100644
--- a/py-polars/tests/unit/lazyframe/test_lazyframe.py
+++ b/py-polars/tests/unit/lazyframe/test_lazyframe.py
@@ -1124,6 +1124,7 @@ def test_lazy_cache_same_key() -> None:
     assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
 
 
+@pytest.mark.may_fail_auto_streaming
 def test_lazy_cache_hit(monkeypatch: Any, capfd: Any) -> None:
     monkeypatch.setenv("POLARS_VERBOSE", "1")