Write the Fallback Path Before You Choose Free Model Access
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Here is my conclusion before any comparison table: the question "free, paid, or self-hosted?" is really the question "what does my code do during the thirty seconds when the answer is no?" I have watched teams argue over per-million-token pricing for a week while their retry logic was a bare while…
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- 2026-10-15 11:25 · DEV Community — AI
Write the Fallback Path Before You Choose Free Model Access