Your Free Model Quota Is a Bank Account. Build a Budget Proxy on a Free Server
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Your team got a free model API key last month. Everyone loved it. Then, one morning, every call started returning 429 . No warning. No dashboard. No idea which project burned the quota. I've been there. Free tiers are generous until they aren't. The fix isn't another monitoring SaaS. It's a tiny pr…
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- 2026-08-30 11:37 · DEV Community — AI
Your Free Model Quota Is a Bank Account. Build a Budget Proxy on a Free Server