test: delete unit-test assertions that pin cost-map prices, limits and deprecation dates

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TLDR

Problem this solves:

• Correct provider syncs kept turning unit-test shards red
• Tests pinned live prices, limits and deprecation dates from the cost map
• Latest example: chore(prices): sync Together AI prices: 6 models, 6 deprecated [sync failed: Google Gemini] #41570 failed because a Together successor got a deprecation date

How it solves it:

• Near deletions only: no new tests, helpers, scripts or workflows
• Prompt cache prediction tests keep their token and slot assertions and lose only their dollar pins
• Removes every assertion that pins a cost-map number or vendor relationship
• Removes tests and parametrize cases left with nothing to check after that
• Keeps every assertion about litellm behavior (token accounting, routing, request shape)
• Cost-map JSON files are untouched

User Flow

Before: a maintainer merges a correct price or deprecation update and unrelated unit-test shards go red

1. The sync bot opens a PR that marks together_ai/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 deprecated on 2026-09-29
2. CI fails misc / Run tests with names deprecated successor together_ai/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813
3. The maintainer has to edit or delete tests in the sync PR before auto-merge can land it

After: the same sync lands with the test shards green

1. The sync bot opens the same PR
2. No unit test restates a price, limit, deprecation date or successor from the catalog, so nothing in the shards depends on the synced values
3. Auto-merge lands the sync without test edits

Relevant issues

Follow-up to #41154 and the sync failure on #41570

Affected release

Linear ticket

Resolves LIT-7882

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Screenshots / Proof of Fix

This PR only deletes test assertions, so there is no proxy behavior to curl. The proof is a mutation run: the 48 touched test files run against a cost map with every price multiplied by 1.37, every limit raised by 1000 and every model given a deprecation date, using a throwaway local script that is not part of this PR

Before (merge base with main)

1. Run the 48 files against the mutated cost map
2. About 150 tests fail on a pinned price, limit, deprecation date or successor, including the chore(prices): sync Together AI prices: 6 models, 6 deprecated [sync failed: Google Gemini] #41570 failure

After (810df25)

1. Same run
2. 0 cost-map failures. The remaining red tests are the ones already red on main without any mutation (an event-loop isolation flake in test_litellm_logging.py)
3. Both JSON files are byte-identical to HEAD after the run
4. git diff origin/main --numstat sums to 9 insertions and 2894 deletions

Type

✅ Test

Caveats (if any)

Medium

• Some deleted tests also exercised litellm logic through a pinned dollar amount (Together size-bucket fallback, transcription token vs duration pricing, /v1/models alias limit resolution). That behavior is now untested; re-adding it with derived expectations was rejected in favor of a near deletions-only diff. The prompt cache prediction tests Bugbot flagged were restored in 810df25 with only their dollar assertions removed
• Nothing stops a new test from pinning a vendor fact again; the next provider sync would surface it

Final Attestation

• The tests check the right things, including the edge cases, and regressions in the respective real-world customer use-cases are not possible after this PR

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Note

Low Risk
Only test deletions; no runtime changes. Medium process risk is reduced coverage where logic was previously validated only via pinned dollar amounts.

Overview
This PR is a large test-only cleanup (~3k lines deleted across ~48 files). It stops unit tests from encoding live values from model_prices_and_context_window.json—dollar amounts, token limits, deprecation dates, cache rates, and vendor successor relationships—so provider cost-map sync PRs no longer fail unrelated CI shards.

What goes away: whole tests and parametrize cases whose only job was to assert a specific price or registry field (e.g. Bedrock batch halved rates, Azure prompt caching dollars, Gemini/Vertex grounding fees, Together cache pricing, transcription duration costs, proxy cache-prediction cost bounds, /v1/models alias limit resolution tied to map entries). In surviving tests, hardcoded cost checks and redundant comments are stripped while behavioral assertions remain where the diff shows them (usage token counts, cost > 0, cost == 0.0 for unpriceable batches, routing, request transforms).

What does not change: production code and the cost-map JSON files are untouched.

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Confidence Score: 4/5

The PR is not ready to merge because mutation-safe billing regression coverage identified in the existing review thread remains removed

Findings

1.  Billing Regression Coverage Removed ▶

Summary

This test-only PR removes assertions and test cases that pin vendor-controlled prices, limits, capabilities, and deprecation metadata from the cost map. Runtime code and cost-map JSON files are unchanged. Changes since the previous review are empty

• Retains mutation-safe behavioral assertions in several affected suites
• Removes fixed catalog-value expectations across 48 test files
• Leaves the previously reported billing regression coverage issue unresolved

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Fixed both Bugbot findings: turbo now reads parallel_ai/search-turbo and Gemini reads gemini/gemini-2.5-flash. Rebutted the Greptile coverage thread

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Fixed the cost map mutation gate: the cache cost helper now treats null long-context rates as absent, matching the pricing code

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Deep-copied model_cost in the tariff test so Router registration no longer leaks null long-context rates into later cache pricing tests

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Billing Regression Coverage Removed

The latest changes delete mutation-safe tests for LiteLLM-owned billing behavior, not just vendor catalog values. These were the only tests covering use of tool_usage.web_search.num_requests, exclusion of non-search actions such as open_page, and fallback behavior for invalid reported counts. Related deletions in test_llm_cost_calc_utils.py remove positive per-query billing and reasoning-token fallback coverage. These billing branches can now regress without detection and silently overcharge or undercharge usage. This violates the repository directive that changes to existing tests must not weaken regression coverage.

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