How these cards are made

Hands-on means hands-on

A card marked Tested hands-on means we got a key, pulled the same ticker we pull from everyone, hit the free-tier limit and read the documentation until it was wrong about something. The note on the card says what exactly was done.

A card without that badge says so in the same place. It was compiled from documentation and pricing pages. Both kinds are useful; pretending they are the same is not.

Fields, not prose

Every card in a category fills in the same schema. That is why the comparison tables can be generated instead of written, and why they cannot drift away from the cards they summarise. A field we have not checked is blank — never guessed.

Verification dates are per field

Pricing goes stale in weeks, asset coverage in years. A single “last reviewed” date would hide that, so each block carries its own date and we mark it when it gets old.

What money does not buy

Sort order, a place in a comparison table, a rating, or any difference in the fields a card gets. Paid placement buys presentation, and it is labelled where it appears.