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Count the Tokens Before You Trust the Free Tier

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Consider a solo founder shipping a login-page summarizer on a Sunday night. Model calls come from a free tier, and the worker sits on a free server. The invoice is zero, and the demo works. Then week three arrives. Requests start failing, and nobody can say which job ate the allowance. The founder…

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  1. 2026-10-27 12:46 · DEV Community — AI
    Count the Tokens Before You Trust the Free Tier

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