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8 articles on ai from the Dracon blog — data-anchored editorial on AI providers, games, music, and the tools we ship.

  1. Infrastructure 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.
  2. AI providers 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.
  3. AI providers 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.
  4. AI providers 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.
  5. Products 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.
  6. Products We published 5 novels written by our own book pipeline Five novels, 523,980 words, written end to end by our own book pipeline and published free forever with the AI label on the tin. Meet the Dracon Bookstore.
  7. AI providers 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.
  8. AI providers 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.