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About and methods

Decision help, not a listicle

Which Dev Tool compares 238 developer and cloud tools in 9 categories on the things vendor homepages bury: what the free tier really includes, what a plan costs at your size, and which stage of project each tool suits.

How a tool gets on the site

For each category we build a long candidate list from developer forums, comparison articles, open-source registries and search, deliberately including smaller and regional providers that most lists miss. We keep the ones that are operating now, publish pricing or documentation, and have real users. Resellers, abandoned projects and anything that looks like a scam are left out.

Where the numbers come from

Every price, limit and free-tier detail is read from the vendor's own website, usually its pricing page, and shown with the date we read it and a link to that page. When a vendor's page cannot be read (some load prices only in a browser or behind a sign-in), we say so, or use a clearly current reliable source, which is listed on the tool's page. We never estimate a price. Prices are shown as published, in the vendor's currency and excluding tax.

Research is assisted by AI agents working to a written brief, and every record is validated against a schema before the site builds. 232 tools have a full profile page; the rest have a row in the tables until we have enough verified detail to write one.

Independence

  • Tables are A to Z by default. You can sort by price or by date checked; nothing else sets the order.
  • Picks are editorial. They come from the data and change when the data does.
  • No position is for sale. Some links are affiliate links and the site may show ads; neither affects a table, a pick or a comparison. If we ever sell a sponsored placement, it will sit in a separate box labelled "Sponsored". Details: how we make money.

Stages

Each tool is tagged with the stages it genuinely suits:

  • Hobby ($0–10/mo): Side projects, learning and demos. Free tiers first; nothing that bills by surprise.
  • Indie (up to ~$50/mo): A solo developer’s paid product. Cheap, low-maintenance and fine for real customers.
  • Startup (up to ~$500/mo): A small team in production. Reliability, team seats and room to grow without re-platforming.
  • Scale-up (usage-driven): A growing company. Scale, support, SLAs and pricing that stays sane at volume.
  • Enterprise (contracts): Compliance, SSO, audit logs, contracts and dedicated support.

Keeping it current

Prices and free tiers change often. Every record carries the date it was verified, and we log changes we find, with sources, on the change log (67 so far). If you spot something out of date, tell us; corrections are checked against the vendor's page and fixed quickly.