Free Endpoint First or Self-Hosted First? Deciding Where an Agent Drafts SQL

<p>Most teams that wire an LLM into a SQL drafting loop spend their first week on prompts, and their second week discovering that the binding constraint was never the prompt. The real constraint is usually placement: which backend writes the candidate query, what it is allowed to see, and what happens when that backend rate-limits you mid-batch. This article works through that decision as a struct

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