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Cloudflare Worker lets devs offer free AI without surprise bills

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

A developer built Free-Tier AI Relay, a Cloudflare Worker that lets apps offer free AI features to anonymous users with a hard daily spending cap. It defaults to free tiers from Google Gemini and OpenRouter, costing $0 to run. The tool rations usage per device, network, and globally to prevent abuse.

Meridian48 take
This solves a real pain point for indie devs, but as a pay-what-you-want boilerplate rather than open source, its adoption may be limited.
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