Evidence: the source behind every price

The directory says what each tool costs. This page shows the record behind each of those statements: which tool, which exact price claim, which official source it was read on, when it was checked, and how confident we are. You should be able to inspect a claim here instead of trusting a badge. The same records are published as machine-readable data in evidence.json.

This page does not re-argue the methodology — how we verify states the rules. It shows the rules applied, claim by claim.

How to read a record

Every record carries two separate judgments. The status says how far the evidence goes; the method says what kind of evidence it is. Keeping them apart is the whole point: a vendor's own published price can be checked carefully without pretending we tested the purchase ourselves.

Method: vendor-stated means the claim is the vendor's own published price, read on its official site on the check date. Method: hands-on tested would mean an editor used the tool and confirmed the claim in practice — no record on this page uses that method yet, and no current listing claims it. A status is always read with its scope: country, currency, billing period, and date. A price checked on November 1, 2026 does not silently stay fresh in January — records are re-checked on the first of each month, and a record past its review date is treated as stale until re-checked.

Tranche 1: pricing claims

Pricing claims cover all 21 tools in catalog v1.7.0. Limits, privacy, and feature claims are not yet covered systematically — they are the next tranches.

Tranche 1 covers one claim per tool: the price claim printed in the directory. Every record below is Qualified, vendor-stated: the vendor's official page supports the price, and the conditions that qualify it are printed on the record itself (billing period, per-seat basis, and the tool's limitations). Source links go to the vendor's official site — the same URL the directory links to. The price itself was read on the vendor's pricing page during the re-check dated on the record; the catalog does not store a separate pricing-page URL, so this page does not pretend to link one. If a vendor's page does not disclose a price, we do not infer one from a third-party site — that record would read Unclear or Unverified, with the reason stated.

What this page does not prove

What comes next

Later tranches add free-tier limits, data retention and training, commercial-use rights, and agent permissions as separate claim types, each with its own source and status. When a price changes, the old record is marked Outdated, a replacement record is created, and the change is entered in the Change Ledger — history is preserved, not overwritten. Spot an error, a broken source, a changed price, or a regional difference? Corrections are welcome from anyone — send them to [email protected]. No payment is ever required to correct a factual error, and a correction never buys a better listing.

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