if you're picking AI models for long-term sustainability you're doing it wrong. There's really no point in locking in model choice for anything more than a month or two these days.

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markerz 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What about companies purchasing enterprise contracts? Most contracts are minimum 12 months. At a minimum, to secure enteprise requirements like zero-data retention, you'll need to lock into a single provider.

These price reductions are mostly targeted towards self-serve customers on individual or small team plans, where individual choice matters and the friction of changing models/providers is low.

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notatoad 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

if you've got an enterprise contract, doesn't that include pricing? a temporary discount on the base API rate probably isn't super relevant to that.

	▲	markerz 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Exactly my and top commenter's point. "Temporary price reduction" and "production workloads" are two different worlds. I'm against the idea that "there's really no point in locking in model choice for anything more than a month or two these days". At a minimum, enterprises are going to lock in a provider for a year due to enterprise contracts, which restricts their model choices. You sign for Anthropic, but now OpenAI models are "better". Or, you signed for AWS Bedrock: Oh no, you don't have access to deepseek-v4 because they're behind.

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bluebands 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

enterprises usually a. just get chatgpt/claude enterprise, or b. just pay the aws bedrock or azure bill

neither of these entail model lock-in

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oh_no 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

what? enterprise LLM API contracts pay listed model rates. how could they lock you into pricing on models that they've not developed yet?

enterprise SaaS LLM calls do lock in rates but don't lock in models for similar reasons to the above.

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