Articles by Grizzly Peak Software

ChatGPT's free tier runs GPT-4o Mini, not GPT-5. Here's what that means for quality and how it stacks up against free tiers from Claude, Gemini, and Grok.

A working list of every major AI API that offers free credits or a free tier in 2026. Token limits, rate caps, and what you can actually build.

PromptChan's free tier has changed multiple times. Here's exactly what you get for free, what costs money, and whether the paid plan is worth it.

Not every AI model deserves your attention. Here's a no-nonsense tier ranking based on real-world coding, writing, and reasoning performance.

I pay for four AI subscriptions and tested nine more. Here's which ones earn their monthly fee and which ones you can skip.

Mistral Pro is $14.99/mo with a 150-message soft cap. Here's what the free tier actually gives you and what the API costs per token.

I replaced my inference backend with DigitalOcean's serverless API and GPT-oss-120b. Here's how I wired it into a Node.js app and what I learned.

Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini all handle usage limits differently now. Here's what each tier actually gives you and when you'll hit the wall.

90% of developers think in components. The 10% who see entire systems are the only ones AI can't outperform. Here's how to become one of them.

Leaked: Anthropic’s Claude Mythos — a “step change” AI with terrifying cyber powers. Why the leak has the entire industry on edge right now.

Groq API free tier limits in 2026: exact RPM, RPD, TPM, and TPD for every model including Llama 3.3, Llama 4 Scout, and Whisper.

Two malicious LiteLLM versions hit PyPI for a few hours. They tried to steal your API keys. Here's what happened and what to do about it.

I tested Skywork's agentic AI workspace. It one-shotted an SEO audit of my site. Here's the honest review and what engineers should know.

Most "agentic AI" content is hand-wavy architecture diagrams. This covers the agent loop, tool design, memory patterns, and MCP with working code.

Skip the PhD. A working developer's roadmap to AI in 2026: LLMs, agents, MCP, RAG, and the projects that actually build real skills.

Contentful's free tier ran out. I migrated 200 articles to self-hosted PostgreSQL in two hours with Claude Code. Here's the full playbook.

OpenClaw has 247K stars. Its creator started with a simple agent loop. You should too. Build the fundamentals before adopting the framework.

My AI publishing pipeline got a book flagged on Amazon. Here's how I added content risk assessment and why every agentic workflow needs quality gates.

Rome's road network, provincial governance, and currency debasement mirror the same failures we build into software. The parallels are uncomfortable.