About Vouch
Vouch exists because AI-tool marketing pages are indistinguishable from one another, and most “best AI tools” lists are rewrites of those marketing pages. We publish measured scores instead: public arena data, sample-weighted review aggregates, verified pricing and the commercial terms each vendor publishes, combined by a published, versioned method anyone can recompute.
Who runs it
How the site makes money
Two ways, both disclosed, and only one of them has ever happened. Vendors can pay to have a submitted tool reviewed sooner. Affiliate links are the other way, and there are none: across all 46 tools on this site, not one carries an affiliate link today. If that changes it is disclosed on the page before the link goes live. Neither route moves a score by a single point: anchors, weights and gates are fixed before scoring, and a paid submission that measures badly is published with its bad score.
Editorial rules
- Every published number is dated, sourced and reproducible from committed inputs.
- A dimension we cannot measure is never estimated. Where a measurement is genuinely unavailable, a measurable substitute takes its place for that tool, chosen from evidence already held and declared on the card.
- Community quotes are real, dated and linked to their source.
- Stale scores are flagged and re-collected; a discontinued tool is not published as though it were still live.
- Category pages are ordered by composite and the top score is computed from the scores, never chosen. Every card states how much of it was measured, so a placing can be read with its coverage.
- No tool, sponsor or not, has ever seen its score before publication.