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I Wrote a Token Budget Probe for a Free Model Server. The Numbers Matter.

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Free model servers feel like a gift. Then you wire one into a real pipeline and your token balance evaporates silently at 3 AM. I've seen it happen to people who trusted the word "free" more than they trusted their own monitoring. So this time I built a probe before building a product. Disclosure:…

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  1. 2026-08-30 11:14 · DEV Community — AI
    I Wrote a Token Budget Probe for a Free Model Server. The Numbers Matter.

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