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The Free Tier Is Not the Cheap Lane: Pricing Your AI Coding Options per Merged PR

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Thursday, 4:40pm. A platform lead drops a screenshot in our channel: free tokens, a free server option, and one line of text — "why are we paying for anything?" Fair question. Also the wrong unit. We were never paying for tokens. We were paying for the parts tokens do not include: the retry that at…

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  1. 2026-10-17 05:43 · DEV Community — AI
    The Free Tier Is Not the Cheap Lane: Pricing Your AI Coding Options per Merged PR

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