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Design a cheaper, slower tier for our model API. What discount, what turnaround promise, and how do you stop it eating standard revenue?

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Batch pricing sells your idle GPU hours. Promise a completion window rather than a latency, make the API shape unsuitable for interactive use, and don't charge for work you couldn't do.

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Batch pricing sells your idle GPU hours. Promise a completion window rather than a latency, make the API shape unsuitable for interactive use, and don't charge for work you couldn't do.

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