📖What it means

The company serving a model — the vendor behind a subscription. Providers matter for the rate card and for outage handling; they never appear in a budget limit.

📖Easily confused with

[{"term": "Subscription", "distinction": "One provider can back several subscriptions; the subscription is the account, the provider is the company."}, {"term": "Model", "distinction": "The provider serves the model; the model is the thing that answers."}]

📖Also called

- vendor
- model provider

📖Filed under

Category: money.

Service: Cost Center.