Dev.to vs Stoicism Quote

Dev.to's API (built on the open-source Forem platform) exposes articles, users, comments and other community content as JSON, with most read endpoints open to the public and write/user-scoped endpoints requiring a key. A live GET against the real gateway, dev.to/api/articles, returned genuine article JSON while carrying Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *, resolving cors unknown -> yes; no key was required for this public read call, though write endpoints still require the documented API Key. Free for community use with no paid tier — pricingModel free.

Stoicism Quote is a small serverless API (AWS Lambda + API Gateway) returning a single random Stoic quote and author as JSON, documented in its GitHub repo as running at the live host stoic.tekloon.net. A live GET against that real gateway, stoic.tekloon.net/stoic-quote, returned a genuine quote with no Access-Control-Allow-Origin header, resolving cors unknown -> no; no key was required, reconfirming auth None. A fully free, keyless hobby API — pricingModel free.