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What I learned making 20 free LLM APIs behave like one

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In September I shared a few small Node packages . One of them was llm-free-cascade . The idea is simple: send a chat request to Groq. If Groq says no, try Gemini. Then Cerebras. And so on, through every free tier you have a key for. The idea was simple. Getting it right was not. Here is what I lear…

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  1. 2026-10-14 02:47 · DEV Community — AI
    What I learned making 20 free LLM APIs behave like one

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