How? All LLM-as-a-Servive's are prohibitively expensive for me. $13 over 3 years sounds too-good-to-be-true.

All local CLIs with free to use models. CLIs are opencode, iflow, qwen, gemini.

What I did splurge on was brief openai access for some subtitle translator program and when I used the deepseek api. Actually I think that $13 includes some as yet unused credits. :D

I'd be happy to provide details if CLIs are an option and you don't m ind some sweatshop agent. :)

(I am just now noticing I meant to type 2 years not 3 above. Sorry about that.)