Redaction ToolsHow we verify prices and decide what gets listed
Where every price in this catalog comes from, how we mark its provenance, what a listing has to clear to be published, and how to correct us.
A comparison is only worth reading if you can check it. This page says where every number comes from, what we will not do, and how to tell us we are wrong.
Where a price comes from
Every published figure carries one of three marks, and they mean different things.
| Mark | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ⟳ Read automatically | Taken from the vendor's own public pricing page on the date shown. No login, paywall or bot protection is ever bypassed to obtain one. |
| ✎ Entered by our editors | Typed in by a person, from the source noted on the listing. This is how tools whose pricing page cannot be read automatically still get a published price, instead of being quietly excluded. |
| 🏷 Supplied by the vendor | Submitted by a verified representative and reviewed by us. It is labelled not independently verified, because it is not. |
Where these disagree, a person decides. A staff or vendor figure is pinned, which means an automated reading can never silently replace it.
Every price also carries the date it was last checked. That date is not the date the price changed — prices are re-checked far more often than they move — so a listing dated last week is a claim about our attention, not about the vendor's.
What we will not do
- Present a trial as a free tier. "Free for 14 days" and "free forever" are different products, and we record them separately.
- Quote an annual-prepay rate as if it were a monthly one, or a per-seat price as a flat one. Every figure carries its unit.
- Invent a limit a vendor has not published. An unpublished cap is recorded as unpublished, not as unlimited and not as zero.
- Publish a price we could not confirm. A stale number is marked stale, never refreshed by assumption.
What a listing has to clear
A tool is a row in a database until it clears every one of these. Until then it has no page, and it appears in no list:
- It is published — not draft, not archived.
- It has a name, a working website and a logo.
- It has at least 400 characters of our own writing. Copy supplied by a vendor never counts toward that, and is shown in a separate, labelled block.
- It has a facet recorded on all three of media, deployment and redaction method — the dimensions every filter depends on.
- It has a pricing position: at least one public plan with a current price, a free-tier flag, or an explicit enterprise-quote flag. "We could not find out" is not a position.
The bar is one function in the codebase, and the public list runs it over every published tool on every request. There is no manual override and no exception list.
Conflicts of interest
If a tool in this catalog is our own, its listing says so. It is never sorted to the top, its price is recorded the same way as everyone else's, and no vendor can pay for placement or for a better position.
Corrections
If a figure here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it.
Vendors can claim their listing and propose a correction. Every proposal is reviewed by a person before anything changes, and the published result says the vendor supplied it. A catalog edited by the vendors it ranks is worth nothing to a buyer, so there is no path around that review — not for a vendor, and not for us.
Anyone else: the submission form takes corrections as well as new tools.