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dsh points web_search at DeepSeek's paid API by default: 402 on a free account, exit code 0 anyway. Tested 2026-09-18, plus a free Tavily backend.

ProFreeHost is real free PHP hosting -- PHP 8.3.19, MariaDB 11.4.13, 5 GB of disk, no bandwidth cap, valid HTTPS on the free subdomain, no card -- and it runs…

A Telegram or Discord bot on long polling breaks free hosting twice over, and almost every guide only names the second problem. First, free tiers are built…

Six measured failure modes when a free AI API meets an agent harness: declared max_tokens billing, a 413 reported as context overflow, and why the same config is fatal on one provider.

Four free API keys, all returning 200 from curl, and not one working agent. The five failures that are never the key, and a six-step checklist.

Groq's free tier advertises 131k context. We measured 7,500 usable tokens: the 8,000 TPM budget is the real limit, and it counts the max_tokens you request.

Hands-on DeepSeek Harness (dsh) review: 205k stars in 18 days. We ran real agent tasks with four free models. Works well, but headless usage is undocumented and Groq fails silently.

We plugged four free AI models into a real agent harness and gave them real jobs. Nemotron was fastest at debugging but silently did nothing on file tasks; Kimi K3 was most reliable.

We benchmarked 12 free AI APIs in August 2026: half now require a card. Groq hit ~521 tok/s; OpenRouter ran NVIDIA's own model faster than NVIDIA.

GitHub Actions, Cloudflare Workers, Northflank and Beam compared for AI agents: free compute, sleep rules, job caps and which ones demand a card.