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I run a 'radar' that finds free LLM endpoints and auto-adopts the good ones — behind a five-part gate so it can't adopt junk
Community description: Free LLM endpoints appear and vanish constantly — a provider opens a generous tier, a new open model...
Dev.to | Sep 16, 2026 | Christian Anderson
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The gate is the bit worth your time, because "just use the free model" is advice that will quietly wreck an agent pipeline. doesn't need a frontier model, and paying frontier prices for it is silly. A free tier that's "good enough" for the boring 90% is real money saved. properties. Only a model that clears all five gets adopted.
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