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Which model each app runs today, and when it last changed

Credit conversion: a model list by accident

A credit conversion table says how far a credit goes on each model. It exists to explain what a plan buys, and the only honest way to do that is to name the models, so it publishes a model list as a side effect of arithmetic. That makes it unusually complete and unusually fragile. As of 2026-09-22.

What the table publishes, and what it mixes together. Recorded 2026-09-22.
Published as a side effectMixed together on the same table
Every purchasable model, by nameA price change and a retirement
Which models the seller expects to be costlyHouse lines and licensed lines
Variants, where they are priced separatelyVideo models and image models
A unit the seller definesNothing marking which is which

Inclusion rule. Read from the credit conversion table of the one entry in this register that prices in credits. Order. What the table reveals first, then what it conflates.

1A by-product is fragile disclosure

Nothing commits a page to keeping its arithmetic explicit. A plan described in flat credits would remove every model name without retiring anything, and the disclosure would disappear with no announcement.

It is unlikely for a practical reason rather than a principled one: remove the names and a credit becomes an unexplainable unit.

Disclosure as a by-product, and what it conflatesThe page exists to explain what a plan buys, and the only honest way to do that is to name the models. Nothing commits it to keeping the arithmetic explicit, and a plan in flat credits would remove every name without retiring anything.The conversion table looks different. What changed?Same model, fewer secondsA repricingThe budget moves and thedelivered look does not.A name is goneA retirementContinuity is the problemnow, and nothing wasannounced.A new name appearedAn additionWhich settles nothingabout the rows around it.A production has to record both the name and the rate
Fig. 1 Unlikely for a practical reason rather than a principled one: remove the names and a credit becomes unexplainable.

2Two changes look identical on the page

A conversion rate can move while the model stays, and a model can leave while the rates around it stay. The first is a price change and the second is a retirement, presented in the same typeface with nothing announced.

So a production watching this page has to record both numbers. Either one moving invalidates a plan built on the other.

3The abstraction sits between the customer and the model

Because the unit sold is a credit, the seller can change what it buys without changing anything a customer bought. Pricing seconds directly removes that ambiguity at the cost of a less flexible product.

The two units read against each other set out what each arrangement makes visible when something moves.

A definition rather than a dated entry: no line above is a vendor statement. Where this word turns up in a real notice, the wording and the date are on the reading on that table. Nearby terms: Output unit, Tier gating, Default engine.