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Groq's free tier bills the tokens you ask for, not the ones you get

Groq's free tier bills the tokens you ask for, not the ones you get

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A /models list with no modality field, and five entries that can't chat

A /models list with no modality field, and five entries that can't chat

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A rate limit that counts the tokens you asked for, not the ones you got

A rate limit that counts the tokens you asked for, not the ones you got

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Tokens per second told me nothing about agent performance

Tokens per second told me nothing about agent performance

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OpenRouter served NVIDIA's own model faster than NVIDIA did

OpenRouter served NVIDIA's own model faster than NVIDIA did

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One curl shows which of 14 providers actually serves your Hugging Face model

One curl shows which of 14 providers actually serves your Hugging Face model

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SambaNova serves its model list without a key, but the inference now needs a card

SambaNova serves its model list without a key, but the inference now needs a card

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GitHub Models returns 410 with a JSON body, which is worse than a timeout

GitHub Models returns 410 with a JSON body, which is worse than a timeout

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Five of OpenRouter's free models take a million tokens of context

Five of OpenRouter's free models take a million tokens of context

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OpenRouter has 21 free models, but grep for ':free' and you only find 18

OpenRouter has 21 free models, but grep for ':free' and you only find 18

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Spending $10 once on OpenRouter raises your free-tier cap 20x, permanently

Spending $10 once on OpenRouter raises your free-tier cap 20x, permanently

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llama-3.3-70b-versatile is Enterprise-only on Groq now

llama-3.3-70b-versatile is Enterprise-only on Groq now

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NVIDIA NIM's catalog is queryable without a key, and DeepSeek-R1 is off it

NVIDIA NIM's catalog is queryable without a key, and DeepSeek-R1 is off it

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A dead model ID at the head of a LiteLLM fallback chain fails silently

A dead model ID at the head of a LiteLLM fallback chain fails silently

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Neon's free plan is 100 small projects now, not one database

Neon's free plan is 100 small projects now, not one database

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Groq's 14,400 requests a day is not for the chat models

Groq's 14,400 requests a day is not for the chat models

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Marker and Surya are Apache 2.0 — their model weights are not

Marker and Surya are Apache 2.0 — their model weights are not

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Koyeb's Starter plan: closed to new signups, kept for existing orgs

Koyeb's Starter plan: closed to new signups, kept for existing orgs

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Railway's Free plan costs $1 a month

Railway's Free plan costs $1 a month

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A daily cron ping won't stop Oracle reclaiming your idle instance

A daily cron ping won't stop Oracle reclaiming your idle instance

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Render's free tier doesn't cover background workers

Render's free tier doesn't cover background workers

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GLM-5.2 is on OpenRouter's free list while the older tutorials point at Zhipu direct

GLM-5.2 is on OpenRouter's free list while the older tutorials point at Zhipu direct

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Self-hosted Appwrite has no quotas because there's nothing to meter

Self-hosted Appwrite has no quotas because there's nothing to meter

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Coolify idles at 800 MB of RAM, so the minimum VPS is real

Coolify idles at 800 MB of RAM, so the minimum VPS is real

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Open WebUI is a ChatGPT-style front end for any OpenAI endpoint, not just Ollama

Open WebUI is a ChatGPT-style front end for any OpenAI endpoint, not just Ollama

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Modal's $30 monthly credit is about 37 hours of L4 time — if nothing idles

Modal's $30 monthly credit is about 37 hours of L4 time — if nothing idles

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LiteLLM is two different products, and the free one is both

LiteLLM is two different products, and the free one is both

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LLM scrapers return Markdown because your chunker can't rank a div

LLM scrapers return Markdown because your chunker can't rank a div

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xAI's $150/month in credits is a data-for-compute trade, stated plainly

xAI's $150/month in credits is a data-for-compute trade, stated plainly

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Turso replicates SQLite so reads are local and writes cross the wire

Turso replicates SQLite so reads are local and writes cross the wire

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ZeroGPU is a queue for slices of an H200, not a GPU of your own

ZeroGPU is a queue for slices of an H200, not a GPU of your own

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AI search APIs hand your agent snippets; the fetch step is still on you

AI search APIs hand your agent snippets; the fetch step is still on you

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Your LLM traces are PII, which is the case for self-hosting Langfuse

Your LLM traces are PII, which is the case for self-hosting Langfuse

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Free TTS tiers meter characters, and that flips which one is cheapest

Free TTS tiers meter characters, and that flips which one is cheapest

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If a coding-assistant listicle names model IDs, it has an expiry date

If a coding-assistant listicle names model IDs, it has an expiry date

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A million 768-dim float32 vectors is ~3 GB of RAM before you add an index

A million 768-dim float32 vectors is ~3 GB of RAM before you add an index

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Groq's free Whisper caps audio-seconds per hour: 7,200 of them

Groq's free Whisper caps audio-seconds per hour: 7,200 of them

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AI app builders bill the regeneration loop, not the app

AI app builders bill the regeneration loop, not the app

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Aider's classic free-model flags point at IDs that no longer exist

Aider's classic free-model flags point at IDs that no longer exist

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Cline's zero-cost setup broke when OpenRouter's :free Llama vanished

Cline's zero-cost setup broke when OpenRouter's :free Llama vanished

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Together's /v1/models returns 401, so verifying a model ID costs a key

Together's /v1/models returns 401, so verifying a model ID costs a key

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Rerank is the cheap half of RAG, which is why a free rerank API matters

Rerank is the cheap half of RAG, which is why a free rerank API matters

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Free AI video tiers differ in queue priority more than in model

Free AI video tiers differ in queue priority more than in model

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Bruno keeps API collections in git-diffable files, which is the entire pitch

Bruno keeps API collections in git-diffable files, which is the entire pitch

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Disposable email dies at the MX record, not the signup form

Disposable email dies at the MX record, not the signup form

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Supabase pauses idle free projects; Neon scales them to zero — not the same thing

Supabase pauses idle free projects; Neon scales them to zero — not the same thing

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Agent framework comparisons rot at the model line, not the framework line

Agent framework comparisons rot at the model line, not the framework line

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The shared-model speed benchmark broke when Groq moved Llama behind sales

The shared-model speed benchmark broke when Groq moved Llama behind sales

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Cerebras swapped its free tier for a $5 trial that wants a card

Cerebras swapped its free tier for a $5 trial that wants a card

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Free GPT-4o API access died with GitHub Models

Free GPT-4o API access died with GitHub Models

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n8n's execution meter only exists in the cloud version

n8n's execution meter only exists in the cloud version

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Vercel's Hobby plan bans commercial use; Cloudflare Pages doesn't

Vercel's Hobby plan bans commercial use; Cloudflare Pages doesn't

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Cloudflare meters AI in neurons, and the unit is the whole story

Cloudflare meters AI in neurons, and the unit is the whole story

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Railway bills resource-minutes, so an idle container is not a free container

Railway bills resource-minutes, so an idle container is not a free container

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Oracle cut Always Free ARM in half, and oversized VMs get terminated

Oracle cut Always Free ARM in half, and oversized VMs get terminated

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MCP's transport moved on: streamable HTTP replaced SSE in the spec

MCP's transport moved on: streamable HTTP replaced SSE in the spec

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Self-hosted Dify has no usage meter, but its free VM got smaller

Self-hosted Dify has no usage meter, but its free VM got smaller

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CrewAI talks to any OpenAI-compatible API through two environment variables

CrewAI talks to any OpenAI-compatible API through two environment variables

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Compare free AI tiers by tokens per day; requests per day is the decoy

Compare free AI tiers by tokens per day; requests per day is the decoy

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