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.
replyExactly my and top commenter's point. "Temporary price reduction" and "production workloads" are two different worlds.
replyI'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.
enterprises usually
a. just get chatgpt/claude enterprise, or
b. just pay the aws bedrock or azure bill
replyneither of these entail model lock-in
what? enterprise LLM API contracts pay listed model rates. how could they lock you into pricing on models that they've not developed yet?
replyenterprise SaaS LLM calls do lock in rates but don't lock in models for similar reasons to the above.