About

What we publish

Comparisons and build write-ups where the paid tool and the do-it-yourself route are both taken seriously. Every article states plainly which tools we have paid for and which we have only read the pricing page of, because those are different kinds of knowledge and blurring them is how most comparison content becomes useless.

How the numbers are produced

• Measured numbers — peak RSS, wall-clock, output size — come from runs on this machine and are reported with the hardware named.
• Vendor numbers — prices, quotas, watermark policy — are read off the vendor's own page and stamped with the date they were read.
• We do not estimate a number and present it as measured. If we did not run it, the article says we did not run it.

What we will not do

• Publish a review of a tool nobody here has used.
• Accept payment, free accounts, or review copies in exchange for coverage.
• Recommend the paid option when the free one is genuinely fine — the recurring theme of this site is that it usually is, right up until it isn't.

Contact

Corrections are welcome and get made. Open an issue on the site's GitHub repository.