Your Free API Key Will 429: A Resilience Playbook for LLM Endpoints
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A free LLM endpoint will eventually return 429 Too Many Requests . The question is not whether it happens — it is whether your client survives it. Most agent code treats the model API as a reliable dependency: one call, one response, no surprises. On a free tier, that assumption breaks in three pre…
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- 2026-08-24 20:43 · DEV Community — AI
Your Free API Key Will 429: A Resilience Playbook for LLM Endpoints