Pattern
Service-tier selection (Priority / Standard / Flex / Batch)
Route each workload to the cheapest service tier whose latency and availability it can tolerate, since the major providers now sell the same model's tokens at several price points chosen per request.
Classification Per-request choice among a provider's price-latency tiers for the same model.
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