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Interactive calculator with per-TB storage, egress bandwidth, and API operation costs.","summary":"Type your storage + egress volume; get ranked monthly cost across 27 vendors (24 S3-compatible) — including the Big 3 (AWS, Azure, GCP) and budget alternatives (B2, Wasabi, Telnyx). 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Per-TLD pricing + GDPR/WHOIS privacy policy.</p>","date_modified":"2026-08-26T00:00:00Z","slug":"domain-tco","description":"Total-cost-of-ownership calculator for domain registration across 12 captured registrars (Cloudflare, Porkbun, Namecheap, Spaceship, IONOS and more). Per-TLD pricing + GDPR/WHOIS privacy policy.","summary":"Pick one TLD (price-tiered) + a 1- or 10-year horizon; get ranked TCO across 12 registrars with inline renewal rates and per-TLD privacy badges. Pure attention tool — no affiliate programs on domain registrars.","tags":["compare","domain","registrar","tco","gdpr"],"updatedAt":"2026-08-26"},{"id":"https://dracon.uk/tools/email-api-compare","url":"https://dracon.uk/tools/email-api-compare","title":"Email API Pricing Compare","content_html":"<p>Compare transactional and marketing email API pricing across 11 providers: Postmark, Brevo, SendGrid, Mailgun, Resend, Amazon SES, Scaleway, Mailjet, Mailchimp Transactional, MailerSend, and SMTP2GO. Interactive calculator with dedicated IP toggles and capture-dated rates.</p>","date_modified":"2026-09-01T00:00:00Z","slug":"email-api-compare","description":"Compare transactional and marketing email API pricing across 11 providers: Postmark, Brevo, SendGrid, Mailgun, Resend, Amazon SES, Scaleway, Mailjet, Mailchimp Transactional, MailerSend, and SMTP2GO. Interactive calculator with dedicated IP toggles and capture-dated rates.","summary":"Type your monthly volume + transactional vs marketing mix; get ranked $/month across 11 email API providers — capture-dated pricing, free-tier headroom, EU sovereign data flags, dedicated IP options, and transparent cost breakdowns.","tags":["compare","email","api","calculator","saas"],"updatedAt":"2026-09-01"},{"id":"https://dracon.uk/tools/vector-db-compare","url":"https://dracon.uk/tools/vector-db-compare","title":"Vector DB Pricing Compare","content_html":"<p>Compare vector database pricing across 21 providers (20 captured, 1 needs-review) — Pinecone, Qdrant, Weaviate, Zilliz/Milvus, Chroma, Cloudflare Vectorize, Supabase, Neon, Turbopuffer, MongoDB Atlas Vector, Redis Cloud Vector, ClickHouse Cloud Vector, Vespa Cloud, Azure AI Search, Elasticsearch, Vertex AI Vector Search, OpenSearch Serverless and self-hosted pgvector on Hetzner VPS (Astra DB pricing under review, unranked). Sizing calculator with embedding dimensions, FP32/INT8 quantization, HNSW index overhead, and query RUs.</p>","date_modified":"2026-08-31T00:00:00Z","slug":"vector-db-compare","description":"Compare vector database pricing across 21 providers (20 captured, 1 needs-review) — Pinecone, Qdrant, Weaviate, Zilliz/Milvus, Chroma, Cloudflare Vectorize, Supabase, Neon, Turbopuffer, MongoDB Atlas Vector, Redis Cloud Vector, ClickHouse Cloud Vector, Vespa Cloud, Azure AI Search, Elasticsearch, Vertex AI Vector Search, OpenSearch Serverless and self-hosted pgvector on Hetzner VPS (Astra DB pricing under review, unranked). Sizing calculator with embedding dimensions, FP32/INT8 quantization, HNSW index overhead, and query RUs.","summary":"Select your vector count, embedding dimensions, and quantization; get ranked monthly TCO across the vector database market — including Serverless (Pinecone, Cloudflare), Managed Dedicated Clusters (Qdrant, Weaviate, Zilliz), PostgreSQL pgvector extensions, and self-hosted VPS baselines.","tags":["compare","vector-db","ai-infra","calculator","rag","pgvector"],"updatedAt":"2026-08-31"},{"id":"https://dracon.uk/tools/codex-reset","url":"https://dracon.uk/tools/codex-reset","title":"Codex Reset","content_html":"<p>Live Codex reset tracker with a 30-day timeline and transparent forecast methodology.</p>","date_modified":"2026-08-23T00:00:00Z","slug":"codex-reset","description":"Live Codex reset tracker with a 30-day timeline and transparent forecast methodology.","summary":"Live signal · cadence math · 30-day history.","tags":["tracker","usage","ai","codex"],"updatedAt":"2026-08-23"},{"id":"https://dracon.uk/tools/observability-compare","url":"https://dracon.uk/tools/observability-compare","title":"Observability Pricing Comparison","content_html":"<p>Datadog bill-shock calculator and observability cost compare: 12 vendors — 7 with captured list pricing (Datadog, New Relic, Grafana Cloud, Better Stack, Axiom, Dynatrace, Dash0) and 5 unranked, quote/event-priced (Sumo Logic, Honeycomb, Sentry, Chronosphere, Last9) — enter GB/day, retention and hosts; get ranked monthly list pricing with capture-dated sources.</p>","date_modified":"2026-08-27T00:00:00Z","slug":"observability-compare","description":"Datadog bill-shock calculator and observability cost compare: 12 vendors — 7 with captured list pricing (Datadog, New Relic, Grafana Cloud, Better Stack, Axiom, Dynatrace, Dash0) and 5 unranked, quote/event-priced (Sumo Logic, Honeycomb, Sentry, Chronosphere, Last9) — enter GB/day, retention and hosts; get ranked monthly list pricing with capture-dated sources.","summary":"Your log volume in, ranked monthly bills out. Quote-based platforms stay unranked instead of being guessed onto the chart.","tags":["compare","pricing","observability","datadog","logging"],"updatedAt":"2026-08-27"},{"id":"https://dracon.uk/tools/agent-sandbox-pricing","url":"https://dracon.uk/tools/agent-sandbox-pricing","title":"Agent Sandbox Pricing Compare","content_html":"<p>8 captured (E2B, Modal, Daytona, Runloop, Beam, Northflank, Cloudflare Containers, Self-host Firecracker on Hetzner) + 2 uncaptured (Morph, Fly Machines) — enter your monthly sandbox-hours and vCPU/RAM profile; get ranked $/month with capture-dated list rates and free-credit notes.</p>","date_modified":"2026-08-27T00:00:00Z","slug":"agent-sandbox-pricing","description":"8 captured (E2B, Modal, Daytona, Runloop, Beam, Northflank, Cloudflare Containers, Self-host Firecracker on Hetzner) + 2 uncaptured (Morph, Fly Machines) — enter your monthly sandbox-hours and vCPU/RAM profile; get ranked $/month with capture-dated list rates and free-credit notes.","summary":"Your agent compute in, ranked sandbox bills out. Per-second-billed rate cards normalized to vCPU/GiB-hours; uncaptured vendors stay unranked instead of guessed.","tags":["compare","pricing","ai-agents","sandbox","calculator"],"updatedAt":"2026-08-27"}],"generated":"2026-09-02T13:32:01.282Z","source":"tools.data.ts","count":8}