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- HingeDesigned to be deleted
- BackstageOpen source internal developer portal framework created and open sourced by Spotify
- DepotCloud-based builds and CI runs 55x faster with less cost
- AI21 LabsEnterprise language AI solutions
- CoderSelf-hosted platform for provisioning governed cloud development environments
- 1PasswordPassword manager
Most compared
How many other products name it as the alternative buyers weigh them against.
- Impact.comThe partnership management platform59pairings
- QuickBooksCloud accounting from Intuit with country specific editions, seat caps by plan and payroll charged separately59pairings
- AirbaseSpend management combining corporate cards, bill payment and expense claims, now part of Paylocity57pairings
- ProcoreAll-in-one construction management platform47pairings
- Planning CenterComplete church management platform for services, volunteers, and giving45pairings
- GrinThe all-in-one creator management platform44pairings
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Head to head
Tools people actually choose between
Every pairing below was checked by two reviewers asking one question: would a buyer weigh these two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.
Grin vs Impact.com
Impact.com: Both manage creator and partner programmes for brands, the core of Grin's creator management.
Impact.com vs Refersion
Refersion: Both run affiliate and creator partner programmes with commission tracking, the core of Impact.com's partner marketing.
Breeze vs Planning Center
Planning Center: Planning Center also covers church members, service planning and volunteers, the same church management work Breeze is bought for.
Planning Center vs Rock RMS
Rock RMS: Rock RMS is a relationship and resource management system for churches, overlapping with Planning Center's church management.
Airbase vs Ramp
Ramp: Ramp also issues corporate cards with spend management, covering the per-person card and expense control Airbase is bought for.
Datadog Logs vs Elastic Stack
Elastic Stack: Elastic Stack covers search, observability and log analytics, overlapping Datadog Logs' centralised log aggregation and analysis.
Godot Engine vs Unity
Unity: Both are game engines for building 2D and 3D games, the same choice a developer makes when picking an engine.
BigCommerce vs Magento
Magento: Open-source ecommerce platform for enterprise retail
Coralogix vs Elastic Stack
Elastic Stack: Elastic Stack covers log search and observability, the same log insight job Coralogix offers for enterprises across logs and metrics.
Google Maps Platform vs Mapbox
Mapbox: Both provide mapping APIs and SDKs that developers use to embed maps, routing and location features in apps.
Azure Machine Learning vs Google Vertex AI
Google Vertex AI: Google Cloud's unified ML platform with AutoML and extensive pre-built models
The directory
Getting the most attention
Chosen by our editors, and not for sale.
QuickBooks
Accounting
Cloud accounting from Intuit with country specific editions, seat caps by plan and payroll charged separately
From $30/month
Where to start
The biggest categories, and a way in
The most cross-shopped product in each of the categories we hold the most of. An entry point rather than a verdict on the category.
- Cybersecurity171 products, starting with 1Password
- APIs113 products, starting with Hasura
- Developer Tools105 products, starting with Docker
- Databases104 products, starting with Airtable
- Accounting99 products, starting with QuickBooks
- Healthcare97 products, starting with Athenahealth
- Cloud84 products, starting with DigitalOcean
- Construction81 products, starting with Procore
- Productivity81 products, starting with Notion
From the desk
Reporting and analysis
Written from the same research that maintains the catalogue, with every checkable claim sourced to the page it came from and dated.
Reporting11 min read
Gemini 4 Hydrogen, GPT-6.1 Terra and Claude Fable 5.2: what three weeks of AI model launches actually cost per task
Three providers repriced their line-ups in under three weeks. OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra on 26 October at $1 input and $5 output per million tokens. Anthropic cut Claude Fable 5.2 to $8 and $40 on 9 November. Google launched Gemini 4 Hydrogen today, 12 November, at $1.50 and $7.50, while its larger Carbon and Argon models sit on introductory pricing that doubles on 1 December. These models are not in the same tier, so the headline rates do not compete with each other directly. This is a like-for-like table, worked costs for three realistic workloads, and the reasons a lower price per token can still mean a higher bill.
Reporting
.NET 8 and 9 end support today, PostgreSQL 14 follows on Thursday: the November 2026 end-of-life list
Reporting
Microsoft unbundles Copilot on 1 December, then makes metered billing the default in 2027
Reporting
Google is shutting down Jules: read-only from 11 November, gone on 31 December
Reporting
GitHub Enterprise now includes Copilot with no seat charge, and bills every AI request from the first
Reporting
Bending Spoons now owns Miro and Airtable. What customers of both should do before renewal
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