Purchase Provisioned Throughput

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This page provides details to consider before subscribing to Provisioned Throughput, the permissions you must have to place or to view a Provisioned Throughput order, and the instructions for placing and viewing your orders.

What to consider before purchasing

To help you decide whether you want to purchase Provisioned Throughput, consider the following:

• You can't cancel your order in the middle of your term.

  Your Provisioned Throughput purchase is a commitment, which means that you can't cancel the order in the middle of your term. However, you can increase the number of purchased GSUs. If you accidentally purchase a commitment or there's a problem with your configuration, contact your Google Cloud account representative for assistance.

• You can auto-renew your subscription.

  When you submit your order, you can choose to auto-renew your subscription at the end of its term, or let the subscription expire. You can cancel the auto-renew process. To cancel your subscription before it auto renews, cancel the auto renewal 30 days before the start of the next term.

  You can configure monthly subscriptions to renew automatically each month. Weekly terms don't support automatic renewal.

  For more information, see Change Provisioned Throughput order. You can also contact your Google Cloud account representative for assistance.

• You can change your auto-renewal behavior, model, model version, or region with notice.

  After you've chosen your project, region, model, model version, and auto-renewal behavior and your order is approved and activated, Provisioned Throughput is enabled, subject to available capacity. You can change your auto-renewal behavior, model, or model version by using the Google Cloud console, which you can use to modify your existing order. For more information, see Change Provisioned Throughput order.

  To change your region, contact your Google Cloud account representative for assistance. A new order with a new subscription end date might be required.

  All changes are processed on a best-effort basis and are typically fulfilled within 10 business days of the initial request.

  Model changes are limited to a specific publisher. For example, you can switch the model assignment of Provisioned Throughput from Google Gemini 2.0 Pro to Google Gemini 2.0 Flash, but you can't switch from Google Gemini 2.0 Flash to Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet v2.

• By default, the overage is billed as pay-as-you-go.

  If your throughput exceeds your Provisioned Throughput order amount, overages are processed and billed as standard pay-as-you-go. You can control overages on a per-request basis. For more information, see Use Provisioned Throughput.

Purchase Provisioned Throughput for a one-week term

Instead of a monthly subscription, you can purchase Provisioned Throughput for a one-week term with the option to provide a start date within two weeks in the future of placing your order after submitting the Provisioned Throughput access control form.

For information about pricing, see Provisioned Throughput.

Roles and permissions

The following role grants full access to manage Vertex AI Provisioned Throughput:

• roles/aiplatform.provisionedThroughputAdmin: You can access Vertex AI Provisioned Throughput resources.

This role includes the following permissions:

Permissions	Description
aiplatform.googleapis.com/provisionedThroughputs.create	Submit a new Provisioned Throughput order.
aiplatform.googleapis.com/provisionedThroughputs.get	View a specific Provisioned Throughput order.
aiplatform.googleapis.com/provisionedThroughputs.list	View all Provisioned Throughput orders.
aiplatform.googleapis.com/provisionedThroughputs.update	Modify a Provisioned Throughput order.
aiplatform.googleapis.com/provisionedThroughputs.cancel	Cancel a pending order or pending update.

Place a Provisioned Throughput order

Some Imagen capabilities might not be publicly available. To learn more, see Restricted GA and Preview features.

Before you place an order to use MedLM-large-1.5, contact your Google Cloud account representative to request access. If you expect your QPM to exceed 30,000, then to maximize your Provisioned Throughput order, request an increase to your default Vertex AI system quota using the following information:

• Service: The Vertex AI API.
• Name: Online prediction requests per minute per region
• Service type: A quota.
• Dimensions: The region where you ordered Provisioned Throughput.
• Value: This is your chosen online-prediction traffic limit.

Provisioned Throughput orders are processed based on the size of the order and the available capacity. Depending on the number of GSUs requested and the available capacity, it might take from a few minutes to a few weeks to process your order.

Follow these steps to purchase Provisioned Throughput:

Change Provisioned Throughput order

This table describes how you can modify your Provisioned Throughput orders through the Google Cloud console based on the status of your order and any existing conditions. Modifying your orders is a Preview feature and is only available for online orders placed through the console. For changes to offline orders, contact your Google Cloud account representative for assistance.

Also, changes made when using the Google Cloud console to your model or model version modifies the existing order while keeping the same subscription end date.

Order status	Action	Note	Steps in Google Cloud console
Pending review	You can cancel your order.	If you have additional changes to your order, then cancel the pending order, and place a new order. If you have multiple models, each model can have only one pending order revision or pending order at a time.	To cancel your pending order in the Google Cloud console, do the following: Go to the Provisioned Throughput page. Select the Region where your pending order is located. To go to the Order details page, click the Order ID for the order that you want to cancel. Click Cancel. In the Are you sure you want to cancel the order? dialog, click Cancel Order.
Active	You can increase GSUs on existing orders. You can enable or disable automatic renewals. You can change the model or model version.	If both of these conditions are met, you can't change your order: The order expiration date is less than 5 days away. The order isn't set to automatically renew.	To change your active order in the Google Cloud console, use one of the following methods: In the Provisioned Throughput page, click the symbol from the Actions column, and click Edit. In the Order details page, click the Edit button.

Check order status

After you submit your Provisioned Throughput order, the order status might appear as one of the following:

• Pending review: You placed your order. Because approval depends on available capacity to provision your order, your order is waiting for review and approval. For more information about the status of your pending order, contact your Google Cloud account representative.
• Approved: Google has approved your order.
• Active: Google has activated your order, and then billing starts.
• Expired: Your order has expired.

View Provisioned Throughput orders

Follow these steps to view your Provisioned Throughput orders:

What's next

• Use Provisioned Throughput.