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Token Math: What 10 Million Free Tokens Actually Buys You

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You open the dashboard and see a counter: 10,000,000 tokens, free. Your first instinct is to paste an entire repository into a prompt and ask for a rewrite. Then you watch the counter fall by 30,000 tokens in one request, and the math becomes personal. The gap between the advertised number and the…

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  1. 2026-09-04 11:09 · DEV Community — AI
    Token Math: What 10 Million Free Tokens Actually Buys You

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