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Best genuinely FREE LLM API that's actually close to Claude-level?

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Guys I’m building a project for a hackathon and I need an LLM API. I’m specifically looking for: genuinely free API (not $5 credits / trial) good reasoning + coding preferably Claude Sonnet/Opus-level or as close as possible decent rate limits API key available for students/hackathon use OpenAI-com…

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