EngineeringOwn InfrastructureMedium complexity
Model Retirement & Provider Exit Plan
Model providers retire versions at short notice and change prices and terms, and applications tuned to one model break when it goes.
How we approach it
Route every model call through one internal interface. Keep an evaluation set for each use case, so a replacement model can be tested quickly instead of the application being rebuilt. Keep a tested fallback, a second provider or an EU-hosted open-weight model, and track providers' deprecation notices and terms changes.
Business value
A model retirement becomes a planned test, not an outage
Technology stack
- LLM gateway
- evaluation suite
- open-weight fallback
- vendor terms monitoring
Related service
Infrastructure & MLOpsFurther reading
Related use cases
- Cross-Industry · EngineeringEU-Hosted AI PlatformRun AI under EU control when the data, a contract or a regulator rules out a non-EU provider.
- Cross-Industry · EngineeringEdge AI DeploymentRun models on devices, vehicles and sites where connectivity, latency or privacy rule out the cloud.
- Cross-Industry · EngineeringLLM Application EvaluationAssistants and agents that looked good in a demo degrade quietly in production when prompts, data or the model change.