I was building my own project and spending way too much on API credits.

Not because I needed some massive scale. Mostly because of normal stuff:

testing features, fixing bugs, rewriting text, trying prompts, breaking things, trying again.

Then I noticed something.

A lot of AI providers already give free API keys and monthly quotas.

Groq gives free usage.

Mistral gives free usage.

Google does too.

Cerebras too.

And several others.

The problem is they all live in different dashboards with different limits, different keys, different docs.

So even though the tokens were technically free, using them was annoying enough that I kept paying instead.

So I built a tool for myself first.

I added all my free API keys in one place, and made requests go through a single endpoint with automatic fallback. If one provider hits its limit, it moves to the next one.

Now it runs across 13 providers and I barely think about credits anymore.

Fun part:

Groq ~15M / month

Mistral ~100M / month

Google ~120M / month

Cerebras ~30M / month

plus more

Turns out free tokens were everywhere. They were just hidden behind friction.

https://preview.redd.it/5544iafnb0yg1.png?width=2048&format=png&auto=webp&s=fbf3ca1f9db1bbf806327b12fe6c88b74a8b9525

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