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Egress traffic fees mainly arise in three places: returning inference results to users, pulling RAG retrieval content from external data sources (if cross-cloud), and downloading model weights or logs.
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50%
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Medium-term (~90 days)
Relevance
10/16/2026
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Valid until: 1/14/2027
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