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Your API credits shouldn't expire. Here's why most resellers disagree.

If you've bought API credits from a reseller — a gateway, a mirror, a "discount line" — there's a decent chance your balance came with a quiet countdown timer. Thirty days, sometimes ninety, sometimes

Oct 4 · 5 min readmizumi.hashnode.dev

Your coding quota didn't vanish — it was metered. A field guide to the two billing channels behind every "my limit hit zero overnight" story

Earlier this month, GitHub issues and the OpenAI community forum filled up with the same story: "I closed my laptop at 45% weekly quota, opened it the next morning at 0%. I didn't run a single session

Sep 27 · 4 min readmizumi.hashnode.dev

Why pay-per-token beats a subscription for bursty dev work

Earlier this month, thousands of developers opened their Codex CLI and watched their weekly quota go from 73% to 0% while making coffee. Then OpenAI published a postmortem: three concurrent bugs, a br

Sep 18 · 4 min readmizumi.hashnode.dev

AI Studio vs Vertex AI: which door should you actually use?

You found a Gemini model you like, you're ready to build something, and then Google hands you a fork in the road: "Get an API key in AI Studio" or "Use Vertex AI on Google Cloud." Both buttons eventua

Sep 16 · 6 min readmizumi.hashnode.dev

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Your coding quota didn't vanish — it was metered. A field guide to the two billing channels behind every "my limit hit zero overnight" story

Why pay-per-token beats a subscription for bursty dev work

AI Studio vs Vertex AI: which door should you actually use?

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Your API credits shouldn't expire. Here's why most resellers disagree.

Your coding quota didn't vanish — it was metered. A field guide to the two billing channels behind every "my limit hit zero overnight" story

Why pay-per-token beats a subscription for bursty dev work

AI Studio vs Vertex AI: which door should you actually use?

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Your API credits shouldn't expire. Here's why most resellers disagree.

Your coding quota didn't vanish — it was metered. A field guide to the two billing channels behind every "my limit hit zero overnight" story

Why pay-per-token beats a subscription for bursty dev work

AI Studio vs Vertex AI: which door should you actually use?

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Your API credits shouldn't expire. Here's why most resellers disagree.

Your coding quota didn't vanish — it was metered. A field guide to the two billing channels behind every "my limit hit zero overnight" story

Why pay-per-token beats a subscription for bursty dev work

AI Studio vs Vertex AI: which door should you actually use?