alt Hacker NewsWhat 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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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
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.
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.