One Project Ate the Shared Free Tier: A Per-Project Quota Pattern for LLM Gateways
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Three projects shared one gateway, one API key, and one 10-million-token allowance. On day nineteen, a batch job that summarized support tickets consumed 7.1 million tokens in four hours, and every interactive request from the other two projects started failing with quota errors. The dashboard show…
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- 2026-08-24 19:20 · DEV Community — AI
One Project Ate the Shared Free Tier: A Per-Project Quota Pattern for LLM Gateways