I tested 3 free LLM API providers and one paid Claude plan on the same 5 real coding tasks. All 20 runs passed on first attempt. The story isn't whether the free tiers work — they do.
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/pitambarmahato/i-tested-4-llm-apis-for-coding-work-all-20-runs-passed-but-speed-varies-10x-4bpl)