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Free LLM API tiers in 2026: the actual rate limits, and why they keep changing

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Disclosure: I'm a co-founder of nopaywall, the catalog this post draws from. If you've ever built a side project on a "free" LLM API, you know the problem: the free tier is real, but the limits are buried in docs, they change without notice, and the blog post you found last year is wrong now. I'll…

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    Free LLM API tiers in 2026: the actual rate limits, and why they keep changing

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