Every free AI pilot I see dies the same way: the team celebrates the free tier on day one, ships a naive integration by day three, and hits the quota by day ten. The blame usually lands on the provider, but the real culprit is a prompt loop that squanders tokens on boilerplate, redundant calls, ...
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/techpy_768/why-your-first-free-model-pilot-fails-and-how-to-make-it-survive-100k-requests-4785)