Four tools people weigh against this one, and where each of them wins.

How we write these

Every figure comes from their own live page, not from an article about them and not from our own notes. Each page carries the date it was read and links to the page it was read from, so you can check us in about ten seconds.

We quote only what they publish. Where a vendor prices a band and says “Custom” above it, that is what we print. We have seen comparisons — including, embarrassingly, our own internal notes — multiply a per-product price out to a catalogue-sized total the vendor never quoted. That number is not on this site.

Every page names what they do better. Not as a courtesy: an unfair comparison is the easiest thing in the world to discredit, and one caught exaggeration would cost us every other claim on this site. Several of these products are simply the right answer for jobs we do not do, and each page says which.

We re-check. A stale price about someone else’s business is a false statement, not an oversight, so re-verification is on a 90-day cycle. If a stamp on one of these pages is older than that, we are behind, and you should treat the number as unverified.