Free LLM Tier and VSCode Extension

I relied on a recent post (which turns out to be from Reddit) about the "free tier" of LLM and found some discrepancies, notably there has not been a "data sharing credit" from xAI for almost a year now. So I asked Grok to dig deeper and verify answers for a better landscape, results are here: https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5LWNvcHk_f65155a2-6bdd-4e69-b51f-a7242b000ad0

I think this answer is more helpful, especially since a lot of free tokens is not helpful if the rates are not good.

I also found a VS Code extension called Cline (thanks again Grok) that so far has been a bit clunky (it hung up on me once and I had to restart it), but it connects to a lot of these "free" options and replaces some of my need for Open WebUI also. You cannot understate the usefulness of VS Code if you are using LLM to build a product, as opposed to building an LLM-powered product.

Finally, let me say in the gentlest possible way that a lot of people are relying on each other here for up-to-date, complete, and accurate answers. Let's reinforce that.

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Free LLM Tier and VSCode Extension