LPU-class inference is an availability story, not a quality story — and availability is exactly where free tiers fail. Running agents on free endpoints for two months, the pattern was always the same: a fast provider is still one endpoint, and at peak hours the free queue stalls like everyone else. My triage agent stopped breaking only when I stopped trusting any single endpoint: rotate 3-4 models, treat any stall as a disk failure, move on. If LPX cuts the latency, great — but failover is still the first engineering task.
LPU-class inference is an availability story, not a quality story — and availability is exactly where free tiers fail. Running agents on free endpoints for two months, the pattern was always the same: a fast provider is still one endpoint, and at peak hours the free queue stalls like everyone else. My triage agent stopped breaking only when I stopped trusting any single endpoint: rotate 3-4 models, treat any stall as a disk failure, move on. If LPX cuts the latency, great — but failover is still the first engineering task.