The cheapest good quality hot-swappable mechanical keyboard you can get
This keyboard has all the good features you can find in any mechanical keyboard – hot-swappable sockets, upgrade friendly, good quality keycaps (unless you don’t like the print design), and a very sturdy build. The main body is of plastic but made of a very good quality one, and the keyboard deck is of metal – making it more sturdy. No questions on its build quality.People who have got a faulty switch on the board can just pull the switch out with a switch puller (the thing you get in the box is not a switch puler, it’s only a keycap puller). The PCB is a 3-pin socket board. Switches supported on this board are Gateron 3-pins, Akko switches, and Outemu switches.Stabs are not good tho you need to open them up and lube it a bit and do band-aid/holee mod.About the negative aspects -1. The sound of this board is the only major drawback – the metal deck of this board makes a slight pinging noise when the keycaps bottom out on the deck, which isn’t a big issue but if u are nitpicky like me it will annoy you a bit.2. Other drawbacks include the big Redragon logo on the body which doesn’t look that great, but you can erase it off with an eraser (Needs a lot of time tho).3. Although the keycaps are double-shot ABS ones, I recommend replacing them with some good ones after a year or two of usage.Overall, this is the best mechanical keyboard you can get under 5000 in India. Go for the full RGB one it’s the same but with more backlight features. Other boards like the Cosmic Byte ones in this range are never that great and don’t have the main feature – hot swappable switches.Backed by the fact of being the most sold and most popular mechanical keyboard under 5000, you should definitely buy this if you get it at around 2.5k. Even at 3k, I’d say it’s a steal (although if u wait a bit for the price to drop).Hope this helpsAs no one talks about the hotswappability part and switch compatibility part.

Un excelent clavier mécanique pour un prix bas. J’adore travailler avec ça longues journées de programmation et écriture sur l’ordi.

High Quantity gaming keyboard at a reasonable price. Do not throw away the box with the QR code for manual & setting options as it does not come with one on paper.

I went from a $100 Razer membrane-key based keyboard, I was happy with it for many years but my friends in discord were not, keyboard was pretty loud, was getting old, drivers slow/buggy OR basically is like having an old AV installed, etc.Decided to make this purchase as a “budget keyboard” option – and I’m amazed at the quality, the lighting options, the typing experience, the feel&noise of the caps – just the overall quality of the product.I would definitely recommend this keyboard for anyone on a budget/tight on cash, there are a ton of different keyboards in the market especially around this price point but this one is a nice hidden gem.And I’m not much of a keyboard guy, I know you can switch caps or essentially build your own board however I think this is a great out-of-the-box experience.I happen to have the previous model of the Reddragon K551 and compared it to this newer model, mainly just lighting and quality however it’s great to see Reddragon still having consistency over the years.Quality – 5(Feels great, looks great, and the sound compared to Razers ‘mecha-membrane keys’ big +1 for discord)Lighting – 4(7 or so nice lighting patterns, also includes a ‘power up’ lighting pattern when starting pc/replugging the USB, you can also change speed and brightness of the colours as well.)Ergonomics – 4(I tilt my keyboards out of old habit, however, this one doesn’t feel like there is a hammer on my wrist when using WASD, both w/ stands up and down)Keycaps & Typing – 5(It will take some time to get used to depending on the board you’re switching from, however its very nice.)AFTER EDIT: Anyone who is experiencing double presses or glitchy keyboard activity / keys – double check your manual and make sure the board isn’t in any ‘backlight gaming mode’ or swapped functions of WASD/arrow keys. There is a mode that also records keystrokes for a lighting scheme, they’re hard to activate accidentally but I’ve had it happen while playing Fallout.