Original research into the AI economy
Original research is in build, and nothing is published here yet. The subject is the economics of AI: what these products cost, how the companies behind them charge, and what changes for a customer when a price or a policy moves. Pricing is the entry point because that dataset already exists: every tool investigation here checks plans, credits, and renewal terms against the vendor's live pricing page, and 76 of those checks now amount to a running record of how AI pricing behaves. This section opens when the work on that record is finished and can stand on its own.
What this section will be
- — Findings will be drawn from data we collect and verify ourselves, starting with our pricing record, rather than from figures reported by other publications.
- — Every figure will state the date it was collected and the size of the sample behind it.
- — The method and its limits will be published alongside the findings, including what the record cannot show.
- — Any finding published here will ship with the underlying data in a downloadable form, so a reader can redo the arithmetic.
What you can read today
Until then the evidence base is public one page at a time: 76 tool investigations across 15 rankings, each carrying the date its pricing was last checked. The roadmap for this section is on our about page.