Lower NVFP4 video to $0.01 per second

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Change

• Owner-requested budget tariff: NVFP4 USD 0.010 per effective output second; BF16 remains USD 0.020.
• Version shared catalog/quote/reservation book as 2026-10-15-a.
• Existing holds and history retain original charges. No admission, rewards, dependencies, schema or x402 changes.
• Pin model-specific quotes and real SQL reserve/settlement/replay, including book changes after reservation.

Verification

• Focused pricing/video/quote/router suite: 209 passed, 55 skipped.
• Additional billing/source/plan/credit suite: 97 passed, 21 skipped.
• Local PostgreSQL and optional cross-repo gates skip; required CI supplies its configured environments.
• Full reachable-history Gitleaks: 1720 commits, no leaks. Diff check clean.
• Not deployed. No paid generation or production mutations.

Commercial discount, not measured speed, operating-cost or fidelity parity.

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Deployed as immutable Core c5384c2 at 2026-10-16T03:59:47Z after all PR and exact-main gates passed. Fresh production backup/scratch restore, schema parity, real public maintenance proof, drain, guarded restart and worker-capacity restoration passed. Configuration, schema, timer states, existing receipts and all unrelated model rates were preserved.

Live public catalog: NVFP4 USD 0.010/output-second; BF16 USD 0.020. Actual Gallery Refresh quote: 33 frames at 24 fps now displays USD 0.0138, down from USD 0.0275. No generation or paid canary was submitted for this pricing deployment.

The first read-only catalog preflight was rejected for the Python client before any production mutation; the retained second attempt used the normal curl release client. No firewall or security protections were changed. Temporary maintenance is removed, production health/capacity and nginx syntax pass.