PRODUCTION SCENARIO
A bank's customer chatbot runs a steady 300 requests per second through business hours. Finance wants a fixed monthly AI bill and operations wants this workload's capacity held for it rather than shared.
Which consumption option fits?
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Answer: Provisioned Throughput, a fixed-term commitment bought per model
Provisioned Throughput is a fixed-cost, fixed-term subscription that reserves throughput for a supported model, which gives both a deterministic bill and capacity that is not shared; Google recommends it for critical, steady, always-on workloads such as chatbots. Priority PayGo raises reliability but still bills per token, Standard PayGo bills per token on shared capacity, and batch inference is asynchronous.