A Zero Bill Is Not Evidence: Production Gates for a Free Model Allowance
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A zero invoice does not make an agent job production-ready. If you cannot show a token ledger, a pinned host, and a floor that fails the run when the allowance thins out, you do not have a release. You have a demo that has not been billed yet. That gap shows up whenever model quality moves faster t…
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- 2026-10-13 01:57 · DEV Community — AI
A Zero Bill Is Not Evidence: Production Gates for a Free Model Allowance