No sponsored rankings. No pay-for-placement. Every tool gets a single score — the Fit Score — and a published profile that tells you, at a glance, whether it belongs in your stack.
Adoption carries the most weight — real users are the strongest signal we have. Hype and recency carry the least.
Verified usage signals — public traffic, repo stars, package downloads. Read from APIs, never guessed.
Integrations, documentation, and the connective tissue that lets a tool live inside a real workflow.
Topic-weighted news signal over the last 90 days. Small weight on purpose — motion is not the same as quality.
Whether the entry carries enough verified detail — pricing, capabilities, compliance — to be useful at all.
A transparent compliance posture — API access, SOC2, GDPR, SSO, zero data retention — quietly amplifies a tool’s score. Opaque pricing pulls it down. Same rules for every tool.
Beyond the headline number, every directory row carries an Environment, Privacy, and Pricing badge — so the most-asked questions are answered before you even click in.
CLI · IDE plug-in · API · Web app. Tells you how the tool actually shows up in your workflow.
Private · Enterprise Safe · Uses Your Data. Drawn from the tool’s own published compliance posture (ZDR, SOC2) — green when prompts stay yours, red when they train someone else’s model.
100% Free · Freemium · Token-Paid · Enterprise. Tools that hide their pricing entirely are flagged and penalised in the score.
Each tool carries a small set of business-leverage tags — answering the question a director actually asks before they sign a PO.
A directory that only lists strengths is a marketing brochure. We publish the drags out loud because that’s usually the conversation that saves a quarter.
| Tier | Label | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| S | Reference | Defines the category — deep adoption, mature ecosystem, trusted by default. |
| A | Verified | Strong all-round signal, established adoption, transparent pricing. |
| B | Solid | Real product, real users — usually missing one trust signal. |
| C | Emerging | Functional, but limited reach or thin ecosystem so far. |
| — | Listed | Catalogued for completeness. Judge for yourself before betting work on it. |
A rank should be objective — same formula, applied uniformly. We don’t sell placements, run affiliate rewrites that move tools up the page, or attach an editorial “verified” badge that implies an endorsement the data doesn’t support. Numbers that affect the rank are read from APIs and verified sources — never estimated by an LLM. Who’s “verified” isn’t ours to decide; the score is.