Free vs Paid Tooling · AI Product Academy

Free vs Paid Tooling

Is anyone else finding that in building things they're maxing out things like Github Actions etc? Do I just need to suck it up and pay for things rather than trying to do everything for free, or is it more about being a bit more selective/efficient with how they're used? Which tools do you feel it's worth paying for, and which do you manage perfectly well with on a free tier?

So far I'm paying for:

Netlify Personal for hosting
Perplexity (and even then I've used up all of November's usage allowance already!!)
Claude
GPT
Various LLM APIs

I'm trying to get by without paying for the following:

Github and Github actions (but it's got to the point where i'm having to run CI locally until the end of the month)
Vercel (as I'm just about getting by with the free hosting, although I have to regularly delete old deployments)
Umami (for analytics)
Google Stitch
Things like Kit (newsletter subscriptions), and Resend
Miro