The Free Tier Rug Pull
Free AI tiers are loans against a future price, paid in your data, your architecture, or your time. Here's the collateral to check before you build on one.
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How to Stretch a Free LLM Tier
Free LLM tiers usually die from bloated prompts, not stingy quotas. Context discipline, caching, tiering, batching, and backoff that triple your runway.
The Free AI Stack: What $0 Gets You
A capability map of what's free from AI providers in 2026: chat, APIs, image generation, speech tools, and coding help, with the real quotas.