Methodology

How we check

Every category on this site is built around a single question, and the question is always a version of the same one: on the free or cheapest plan, what can you actually walk away with? A category that cannot be given that question in a checkable form does not get published here.

The question, per category

• AI Meeting & Transcription Tools

  On the free plan, can you export the full transcript as a file you keep — or does download only unlock when you pay?

• AI Coding Assistants

  On the free tier, is your code used to train models — and if it is, can you turn that off without upgrading?

• AI Voice & Text-to-Speech

  Audio you generate on the free plan — can you use it commercially, must you credit the vendor, or is it non-commercial only?

• AI Resume Builders

  After you finish the resume on the free plan, does the PDF download — or does a paywall appear at the download button?

• AI Presentation Tools

  Does a deck exported on the free plan carry the vendor's branding — and what is the cheapest plan that removes it?

• General AI Assistants

  On the free tier, do your conversations train the model by default — and can you switch that off without paying?

Where the answers come from

Only from the vendor. We open the product's own pricing page, terms of service, or help documentation, read the sentence ourselves, quote it, link it, and stamp it with the date we read it. We do not take numbers from roundups or aggregators, because a wrong number propagates between them faster than any of them corrects it.

Each verdict says which kind of evidence it rests on. Read on the vendor's own page means we read the vendor's sentence — a primary source, but not us using the product. We ran this ourselves means we performed the action and watched what happened. Those are different claims and this site never merges them into one word.

What the three verdicts mean

The mark next to each verdict draws the same thing every time: a boundary, and whether the thing you made crossed it. Below the line means it left with you. Sitting on the line means it left with a condition attached. Above an unbroken line means it did not leave without payment. A dashed line means we could not confirm what happens, so we draw nothing.

Why some values are blank

If a vendor does not state something, the field stays empty and the page says so. Several products on this site have blank prices because their own pricing page rendered no number for us, or priced only in the local currency of wherever the page was served. A blank is a fact about the vendor's page. A plausible-looking estimate would be a fact about us.

Corrections

Prices change, plan tables get rewritten, and a page that was accurate in August is not automatically accurate in November. Every review carries a change log, and corrections are published there rather than edited in silently. If something here is wrong, out of date, or reads as if we tested something we only read about, write to support@movoai.app and we will re-check it against the vendor's page.