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I Built a Fallback System for OpenRouter's Free API After It Silently Broke

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The Script That Failed Without Warning My nightly batch job had been running fine for months on OpenRouter's free API. Then it started throwing 429 errors, and nothing in my code had changed. The actual cause: the specific :free model I'd hardcoded had quietly stopped being offered for free. No war…

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  1. 2026-09-01 06:17 · DEV Community — AI
    I Built a Fallback System for OpenRouter's Free API After It Silently Broke

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