Updates To Our Free Tier Sustaining Accessible Ai For Everyone
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Terms in this piece · Glossary
inference — Running a trained model to get answers — the phase where AI is actually used, as opposed to trained.
Why it matters
Free-tier inferenceRunning a trained model to get answers — the phase where AI is actually used, as opposed to trained.Full definition → is being reshuffled: some providers went paid, DeepSeek V3 and R1 remain free, and less popular free models are being retired, so anything you built against a free endpoint needs checking.
