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Free Tokens Aren't Free Requests: Five Budget Myths and a Spend Ledger You Can Run

A free endpoint feels like a blank check. It is not. My first week of free-model experiments taught me that much. I was calling an OpenAI-compatible gateway through MonkeyCode's free model access. Then I compared my assumed spend against what actually left the account. Disclosure: This article was…

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  1. 2026-11-06 17:38 · DEV Community — AI
    Free Tokens Aren't Free Requests: Five Budget Myths and a Spend Ledger You Can Run

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