How we review tools

What goes into a review

Every review is built from the same structured research: the vendor's own product and pricing pages, official documentation (API, integrations, security/trust pages), dated press coverage for launch and funding claims, and — where we've gotten hands on the product — our own testing notes, which appear in a "How we tested" box on the review. When a review of a brand-new tool ships before we've completed hands-on testing, it says so, and we add screenshots and testing notes in the following days.

Pricing verification

Pricing is copied from the vendor's live pricing page — never from third-party roundups — and every pricing table shows the date we last verified it, with a link to the source. Tools that don't publish pricing are labeled "sales-quoted"; we never estimate a number the vendor doesn't publish.

Why we don't publish star ratings

Star ratings imply aggregated user data. As a review site covering tools that are often days old, we don't have that data — nobody does — and inventing an editorial score would be dressing an opinion up as measurement. Instead every review ends with a written verdict you can weigh for yourself, next to explicit pros, cons, and who the tool is (and isn't) for.

Comparisons

Our head-to-head pages only list differences we can verify on both sides — pricing, platforms, integrations, compliance, and focus. If two tools don't differ enough on verified facts, we simply don't publish a comparison page for them, rather than padding one with filler.

Corrections

Tools change fast and we make mistakes. Every page shows its published and updated dates. If you spot something wrong, contact us via the address on the disclosure page and we'll re-verify against the source.