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Free Tokens Don't Cut the Bill. They Move It.

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Free tokens don't cut the bill. They move it. That is the whole finding, and it is why I rebuilt my evaluation harness before I sent a single prompt through a free model endpoint. When generation costs nothing, the cost does not disappear. It relocates to the part of the pipeline that decides wheth…

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  1. 2026-10-26 11:41 · DEV Community — AI
    Free Tokens Don't Cut the Bill. They Move It.

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