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We earn commission on every tool we feature. What that never buys is a position. We test first and rank second, and a tool that pays well can still finish last. How that works.

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Tested.
Scored.
Dated.
Published.

Most AI tool sites list 28,000 products and have tested none of them. We cover fewer, test them properly, score them hard, and publish every answer we got, dated, with the engine named.

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The Recommendation
Leaderboard

August 2026  /  share of recommendation

Every month we ask ChatGPT and Gemini answered. Perplexity and Copilot could not be reached. the same buying questions, and count who they name. This is what the machines are actually telling buyers right now.

AI Writing (2 engines asked)

01Claude (1st in both)100%
02Jasper (2nd, 4th)100%
03ChatGPT (2nd)50%
04Writesonic (3rd)50%
05Surfer AI (3rd)50%
06Byword.ai (4th)50%

AI Voice (1 engine asked)

01ElevenLabs (1st)100%
02Speechify Studio (2nd)100%
03Murf (3rd)100%
04WellSaid (4th)100%
05OpenAI TTS (5th)100%

This table is not filtered by whether we earn from a tool, because then it would not be a measurement. It carries no affiliate links. See the full run

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We review the communities, cohorts and courses that are worth paying for, and the platform most of them run on.

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How this
site works

The short version

01

We test first

Same brief, same conditions, every tool in the category. Scored against a published rubric, not a vibe.

02

Links come after

The verdict is written and locked before anyone goes looking for an affiliate link.

03

We only cover what we can link to

Every tool here has a commercial relationship with us. So we do not claim to rank the whole market, we rank the set we cover, and we say which set that is.

04

Position is never for sale

Nobody can pay to move up, including anyone who paid for a listing. The highest paying tool in a category regularly finishes below one that pays us less.

05

The leaderboard stays complete

It reports what the engines actually said, including tools we earn nothing from. Censoring it would make it worthless.

06

Everything is dated

Every score, every engine answer, every price carries the date we checked it. Old data gets marked old.