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Token Forensics: Finding the Process That Ate Your Free Allowance

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Three in the morning is when a free tier starts lying to you. Your dashboard shows two hundred requests today, yet the token counter says forty percent of your allowance is gone, and the two numbers refuse to reconcile. You check the model's pricing page, then your code, then your logs, and each on…

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  1. 2026-08-25 05:08 · DEV Community — AI
    Token Forensics: Finding the Process That Ate Your Free Allowance

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