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Benchmarked the free API tiers you can point a coding agent at - half of them now want a card

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I run aider and Cline against free tiers instead of paying per token, and my setup broke twice this month when model IDs disappeared under me. So I stopped guessing and measured what's actually left. The boring half first: a lot of the tiers people still recommend don't work any more. DeepSeek gave…

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  1. 2026-08-31 05:39 · r/ChatGPTCoding
    Benchmarked the free API tiers you can point a coding agent at - half of them now want a card

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