An agent task is not one inference. It is a routing call, a retrieval step, three tool calls, a summarization pass, and one hard reasoning step that genuinely needs current silicon.
Centralized reservations price all of it at the top tier, because the commitment locks you to one instance family in one region months in advance.
Aethir runs H100, H200, B200, GB200 and B300 across one network with no minimum commitment.
Match the tier to the step, not to the contract.