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Judge a Free AI Tier by Its Exit Cost, Not Its Entry Price

Most of the AI conversation this week is about whether the tools will replace us, and I keep thinking that the more practical question is whether you can walk away from one. Last month I needed a working vertical slice of a support-triage feature — an HTTP endpoint, one Postgres row, one queued job…

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  1. 2026-11-06 16:22 · DEV Community — AI
    Judge a Free AI Tier by Its Exit Cost, Not Its Entry Price

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