How we verify the landscape.

We start with vendor documentation, pricing pages, release notes, repositories, and official marketplace listings. Independent testing informs judgment, but does not replace a primary source for a product claim.

Unknown beats inferred. If a vendor does not publish a detail, the field stays unknown.

Pricing and model facts are reviewed every 30 days; features every 60; stable metadata every 90.

Overdue facts remain visible with a stale marker so readers can see both the last known value and its age.

The quiz is a deterministic rules engine. It scores workflow fit, surface, deployment, budget, and team requirements against the same structured tool data used by profiles.

Sponsorship state is not part of the scoring input and cannot change a result.

“Best for,” “avoid if,” strengths, and limitations are editorial conclusions. They are written as practical guidance, not vendor copy, and never presented as sourced facts.