From the Dracon workshop
We maintain structured catalogs of AI providers, games, music, and tools. These articles are written from that data, not from vibes. When the data changes, the articles get regenerated.
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- Genre roundups from our own catalogue: 8 searches, 170 tracks, ranked by BPM Eight genre roundups generated from our cookbook: every table ranked by BPM with track counts and the extraction date.
- Domain renewal TCO: the 5-year cost of .com and .co at 12 registrars Year-1 vs renewal at 12 registrars for .com and .co, ranked by 5-year total with captured dates.
- Storage for AI training: what 50 TB of datasets and 20 TB of egress actually costs 50 TB stored and 20 TB of monthly egress ranked across 26 providers from captured prices, plus the training-specific picks the cheapest five misses.
- Vector database pricing, compared: what 5M vectors and 10M queries cost at 19 vendors 5M vectors and 10M monthly queries ranked across 19 vendors from captured prices, every row dated and sourced, at the tool's own default workload.
- Dedicated servers by workload: the cheapest fitting plan for four real jobs Budget dev, web hosting, game servers and high bandwidth priced per provider from captured plans, plus the two moves across 51 dated captures.
- AI free tiers in 2026: the limit, the card question, and the date we checked Every AI provider free tier we track, with the actual limit, whether it needs a card, and the date we checked. Four big names have no free tier at all.
- GPU rental rates per hour: A100, H100, L40S, 4090 and L4 across 13 providers On-demand hourly GPU rental prices from 13 providers side by side, captured 2026-10-27 from each provider’s own pricing page.
- Coding-agent subscriptions compared: plans, limits and billing across 32 providers Every paid coding-agent subscription cheapest first, plus free and custom entry points, verified 2026-10-26 to 2026-10-27 from each provider’s own plan page.
- Free AI API credits in 2026: what each provider actually gives you The complete list of AI providers that hand out a signup bonus or promo code, the ones that provably do not, and the billing discounts worth more than either.
- 143 science-fiction novels, free to read: the Dracon sci-fi shelf Every science-fiction novel on the Dracon shelf: 143 titles, 16,615,430 words, free to read, ranked longest first.
- Every free browser game on dracon.uk: all 19 of them The authoritative list of all 19 Dracon browser games: 2 released, free to play, no downloads.
- OpenRouter vs LiteLLM: hosted gateway or self-hosted proxy OpenRouter is a hosted gateway you pay per token for. LiteLLM is free software you run yourself with your own keys. Same job, opposite direction, and the right choice depends on one question.
- Cheapest object storage in 2026: the real monthly cost per terabyte The per-GB storage rate is the wrong number to shop on. 26 providers ranked on what 5 TB stored and 3 TB of monthly egress actually costs, captured from each vendor's own pricing page.
- We read the SLA fine print of 12 VPS providers so you don't have to Marketing pages say 99.9%. Contracts say things like 95%, or nothing at all. Every published uptime commitment across our 12-provider VPS catalog, read from the actual legal documents.
- The renewal trap, ranked: year-1 → year-2 jumps at 12 domain registrars The first year is marketing; the second year is the price. We ranked all 12 registrars in our captured catalog by their .com renewal jump, from IONOS's +1900% to Cloudflare's 0%.
- What the exchange rate does to your domain bill: EUR registrars in USD clothing A €10.07 renewal is not a $10.07 renewal. How ignoring the euro/dollar rate misranks European registrars by ~7%, and what fixed ranking looks like.
- The hidden ICANN fee: who includes the $0.18 and who tacks it on Every gTLD registration carries a mandatory $0.18/year ICANN fee. Whether it's already inside the listed price depends entirely on the registrar, and checkout is where you find out.
- Free first year = infinite markup: promo domains, dissected A $0 or $1 first year renders as a 0% 'renewal hike' on most comparison sites. The worst promos look like the best deals anywhere on the internet. Here is the math that fixes it.
- When $1.38 cheaper is worse: scoring features into price comparisons Two cloud storage plans, $1.38 apart on a $556 bill. Which wins? Our answer: price decides, near-ties badge. Why naive 'always cheapest' and old feature-band ranking lie in different ways.
- Vector DB free tiers, compared without the marketing gloss "Free forever" means 21 different things across the vector database market. Every free tier in our captured catalog (storage, vectors, queries, credits) on one honest table.
- Your first 10k emails: what transactional email really costs at launch Six vendors charge $0/month at launch volume, and the paid floor starts at $15. Every price below comes from our captured email-API catalog, run through the same compute engine our comparison tool uses.
- The cheapest way to run Claude right now: every route in our catalog, from $0 to $200 a month Seven providers we track serve Claude. Free lanes, pay-as-you-go, and subscriptions compared, with the catches and the cheapest route for light vs heavy use.
- AI promo codes: 15 tracked offers rechecked, with conditions and corrections A September 17 source check of 15 AI promo and referral offers: current terms, historical claims, eligibility limits and explicit notes where rewards could not be reconfirmed.
- Free AI API rate limits, compared: which free tiers can do real work and which are demo taps 22 of the 45 AI providers we track have a free tier. The real limits side by side: RPM, daily caps, token grants, and the 7 that hold up for actual work.
- What bring-your-own-key actually costs: the real math The honest math behind bring-your-own-key: real API token prices from our 45-provider catalog versus $20 AI subscriptions, and why Dracon Omni is $10.
- One person, one platform: how dracon.uk actually runs An honest ops tour of dracon.uk: one VPS, five static apps and two Node apps behind Caddy, five Rust APIs on unix sockets, Paddle, OVH buckets, one person.
- 1,104 AI-written novels, free to read: the Dracon Bookstore and how it was made The Dracon Bookstore is 1,104 novels, 131 million words, written end to end by our own pipeline and free to read. Every book carries the AI label on the tin.
- How a game ships to the Dracon arcade: build, bucket, catalog flip The 8-step pipeline from local build to OVH bucket to the catalog flip, the real status counts across our 18-game catalog today, and what ships next.
- Three games, one bug: the SvelteKit hosting bug that broke our arcade One SvelteKit default broke three of our games on the same night: 390 to 451 reloads in six seconds, zero console errors. The full postmortem, with the fix.
- What 2,500 tracks of focus music have in common: we ran the numbers We computed the real stats behind our 2,500-track focus library: BPM bands, mood-tag counts, the 10-track rule, and why only 3 cooks in 250 carry the focus tag.
- Music to fall asleep to, built from recipes Seven sleep-friendly cooks from our 2,500-track recipe library: a 40 BPM space drift, a note held for hours, dark ambient with a shadow, and honest caveats.
- The AI price war went nuclear this week: DeepSeek V4 Flash at $0.14/M tokens and GPT-5.6 Luna down 80%, in the same 24 hours OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna 80% on July 30; DeepSeek shipped V4 Flash to public beta July 31 from $0.14/M tokens. We track 45 AI providers. Here's what changed, with numbers.
- 22 of the 45 AI providers we track have a free tier. Only 7 are actually useful. We maintain rate-limit data on 45 AI providers. Most 'free tiers' are demo taps. These 7 hold up for real work, with actual limits and how to mix them via BYOK.
- 18 games in the pipeline, 1 playable today: an honest state of the Dracon arcade Our games catalog tracks 18 projects from released to experimental. What each status means, what's playable now, and why we publish the pipeline honestly.
- 2,500 tracks, 250 mixes, 166 mood tags: we built a free focus-music library and kept the receipts The Dracon music library is 2,500 generated tracks in 250 curated 'cooks', every recipe kept. The data behind it and how to use it.
- Where do your AI keys go when you use our tools? A straight answer BYOK tools ask for the most sensitive string you own. Exactly what happens to your keys across Dracon tools (extension, chat, vault) and what we never do.