Three projects shared one gateway, one API key, and one 10-million-token allowance. On day nineteen, a batch job that summarized support tickets consumed 7. 1 million tokens in four hours, and every interactive request from the other two projects started failing with quota errors.
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/codepro_9661/one-project-ate-the-shared-free-tier-a-per-project-quota-pattern-for-llm-gateways-27i2)