A token allowance is usually treated as a spending budget, which is the wrong mental model for free tiers. The right model is a cache to be managed, because agent workloads repeat themselves far more than developers realize. A semantic cache that serves previous responses for rephrased requests...
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/codehub_1304/the-semantic-cache-that-made-a-free-llm-quota-feel-infinite-4lp0)