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Weekly and monthly roundups of what changed in the LLM cost and tooling cluster -- price moves, model launches, vendor docs updates, deprecations. Different from a news ticker: roundups synthesize a window's worth of changes into the implications, not the events. The activity wire on the pricing landing covers the headlines as they happen; this category covers what the headlines added up to over the week. No roundups have shipped yet. The cadence will lock in once there are enough cornerstone analyses for a roundup to point at when it sees a pattern.
Every legit way to get LLM compute for $0 in 2026: free API tiers, trial credits, student offers, and startup grants up to $350k — verified, with the catch on each.
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Which LLM APIs are actually free to call in 2026 — not free chat apps or expiring trial credits. Verified free tiers, real rate limits, and the data catch.
There is no single cheapest LLM API. The winner depends on your workload shape. Verified $/M prices for classification, chat, coding, RAG, batch, and reasoning.