Burst-FAQ: What Your Free-Tier Benchmarks Are Hiding
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Your API returns in 300 ms. At midnight. At 9 AM it times out. What changed? The model didn't. The server didn't. The queue did. Free tiers are a shared resource. Your benchmarks measure idle time. Real users arrive in waves. Waves create bursts. Bursts reveal the truth. MonkeyCode offers free mode…
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- 2026-09-01 20:33 · DEV Community — AI
Burst-FAQ: What Your Free-Tier Benchmarks Are Hiding