diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 92b029a3a..d47da8473 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ LinearAlgebra = "37e2e46d-f89d-539d-b4ee-838fcccc9c8e"
 Logging = "56ddb016-857b-54e1-b83d-db4d58db5568"
 Markdown = "d6f4376e-aef5-505a-96c1-9c027394607a"
 Moshi = "2e0e35c7-a2e4-4343-998d-7ef72827ed2d"
+PreallocationTools = "d236fae5-4411-538c-8e31-a6e3d9e00b46"
 PrecompileTools = "aea7be01-6a6a-4083-8856-8a6e6704d82a"
 Preferences = "21216c6a-2e73-6563-6e65-726566657250"
 Printf = "de0858da-6303-5e67-8744-51eddeeeb8d7"
@@ -75,6 +76,7 @@ Makie = "0.20, 0.21, 0.22, 0.23, 0.24"
 Markdown = "1.10"
 Moshi = "0.3"
 PartialFunctions = "1.1"
+PreallocationTools = "0.4.29"
 PrecompileTools = "1.2"
 Preferences = "1.3"
 Printf = "1.10"
diff --git a/src/SciMLBase.jl b/src/SciMLBase.jl
index 49d9e246d..30b11c0bd 100644
--- a/src/SciMLBase.jl
+++ b/src/SciMLBase.jl
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ using Distributed
 using Markdown
 using Printf
 import Preferences
+using PreallocationTools
 
 import Logging, ArrayInterface
 import IteratorInterfaceExtensions
diff --git a/src/problems/ode_problems.jl b/src/problems/ode_problems.jl
index 2aafa4172..0ab64fa1e 100644
--- a/src/problems/ode_problems.jl
+++ b/src/problems/ode_problems.jl
@@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ end
 function SplitODEProblem{iip}(f::SplitFunction, u0, tspan, p = NullParameters();
         kwargs...) where {iip}
     if f._func_cache === nothing && iip
-        _func_cache = similar(u0)
+        _func_cache = PreallocationTools.LazyBufferCache()
         f = remake(f; _func_cache)
     end
     ODEProblem(f, u0, tspan, p, SplitODEProblem{iip}(); kwargs...)
diff --git a/src/scimlfunctions.jl b/src/scimlfunctions.jl
index 0d6c26a02..eae48eeda 100644
--- a/src/scimlfunctions.jl
+++ b/src/scimlfunctions.jl
@@ -2618,9 +2618,10 @@ end
 
 (f::SplitFunction)(u, p, t) = f.f1(u, p, t) + f.f2(u, p, t)
 function (f::SplitFunction)(du, u, p, t)
-    f.f1(f._func_cache, u, p, t)
+    tmp = PreallocationTools.get_tmp(f._func_cache, u)
+    f.f1(tmp, u, p, t)
     f.f2(du, u, p, t)
-    du .+= f._func_cache
+    du .+= tmp
 end
 
 (f::DiscreteFunction)(args...) = f.f(args...)
@@ -2666,11 +2667,11 @@ end
 
 (f::SDDEFunction)(args...) = f.f(args...)
 (f::SplitSDEFunction)(u, p, t) = f.f1(u, p, t) + f.f2(u, p, t)
-
 function (f::SplitSDEFunction)(du, u, p, t)
-    f.f1(f._func_cache, u, p, t)
+    tmp = PreallocationTools.get_tmp(f._func_cache)
+    f.f1(tmp, u, p, t)
     f.f2(du, u, p, t)
-    du .+= f._func_cache
+    du .+= tmp
 end
 
 (f::RODEFunction)(args...) = f.f(args...)