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Free LLM APIs for developers without unreliable shortcuts
A "free LLM API" search turns up quotas that change without notice. Here is a provider-selection framework built on quotas, tool support, privacy, and failover, not a stale list.
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Free vs paid LLMs: a 76-task benchmark
We ran 76 real agent tasks through free routing and through GPT-5. On classification, JSON extraction, and reasoning, free was at quality parity. Here is where paying still wins, and how much you save when it does not.