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Free Tier
3 articles on free tier from the Dracon blog — data-anchored editorial on AI providers, games, music, and the tools we ship.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.