How we verify prices and decide what gets listed

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.

⟳ 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.

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 An unpublished cap is recorded as unpublished.
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 appears in the catalog only once it has a vendor, a working link, a logo, at least one medium, deployment and method recorded, a pricing position, and several hundred words of our own writing. Copy supplied by a vendor never counts toward that last one, and is shown in a separate, labelled block.

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.