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You Keep Paying for the Same Prompt
Community description: You do not mainly pay for the next tool call. You pay to recite the conversation that justified it....
Dev.to | Sep 12, 2026 | Quinn Li
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Replay tokens are the prompt prefix that already existed before this turn’s new user or tool text. Free model access is a lane with a queue. MonkeyCode is an open-source project with free model access and a free server option. Start the next model call from that brief plus the new tool result. You want to see tool, tool, tool, not another stack trace in your pager.
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