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Developer Seeks Free LLM APIs with Higher Rate Limits for FastAPI Projects

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A developer building a FastAPI backend project is looking for free or generously limited LLM API alternatives to Gemini and Groq. The engineer posted on DEV Community seeking recommendations from peers in the developer community. During active development and testing, the free tiers of both Gemini and Groq were found to hit rate limits very quickly. The developer is specifically interested in platforms or providers that offer higher API call allowances without frequent throttling. They also welcomed general strategies for managing LLM API limits during the development phase.

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