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Hello, im brand new to this field of study. I’m sort of struggling to figure everything out but for now I have a question about APIs.. Which prerequisite APIs will make my life easier as Im getting started out building AI Automations, and which services do you recommend purchasing vs using the free trials? Sorry im very new to everything so if this question doesn’t make sense, apologies in advance.

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Hi there, welcome to the community and welcome to the world of AI Automation!

Regarding on buying or using APIs, well I would say to buy or use the APIs that you will use the most

Because you know, the world of AI Automation is so huge and there’s a lot of stuff that can be automated and that automation will take different apps and APIs to communicate

There’s no use of buying an API right now if you dont use it

But for starter, maybe I would suggest for you to buy/choose 1 LLM credit, you can choose from a lot of different provider, OpenAI, Gemini, Deepseek, etc.

And if you cant choose one, you can choose OpenRouter, where its basically like an app store for LLM, so you can try many LLMs there

and for starter and production mode, personally, using self hosted n8n, i always like to avoid the use of google services (google sheet, gmail, etc.) because i don’t have the google cloud console app in production mode, which make me always have to re sign in every 7 days, so maybe as a beginner you might want to keep tht in mind as well

also if you do some audio or video modification/editing i suggest you to learn about ffmpeg, its a tool that you can use to do just tht, many well known audio/video editing API use it behind their technology, so if you can host it yourself and know how to use it, that will be nice

I hope this answer helps

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