Last updated: 14 October 2026
This page explains where the facts in our articles come from and how we handle the ones we cannot confirm. Each article links its own sources; this page is the general rule behind them.
Which sources we use, in order
| Source type | Examples | How we use it |
|---|---|---|
| The company’s own primary material | Release announcements, documentation, pricing pages, system cards, help-center articles | The default source for what a product does and costs. Linked in the article. |
| Independent measurement | Third-party benchmark firms, academic papers, regulator or public-agency statements | Used to check or put a company’s claims in context. Named and linked. |
| Established reporting | Major tech and wire-service coverage | Context and corroboration. We do not take a number from it that the primary source does not also state, unless we say so. |
| Aggregators and unsourced blogs | Summary sites, social posts | Not used as a source for facts. If a claim only appears there, it stays out of the article or is marked unconfirmed. |
Rules for numbers
- Every figure in an article should trace to a source named in that article.
- Benchmarks a company publishes about its own model are labelled as self-reported, especially when they compare against a competitor.
- When two official sources disagree (a blog post and a docs page giving different figures, for example), we show both rather than pick one.
- Prices and limits change. Articles carry their publication date, and comparisons say when the prices were read.
- If we could not confirm something, the article says so in the body, not in small print.
Our own wording
Articles are written in our own words. We summarise and link sources rather than reproduce their text, and direct quotes are short, marked as quotes, and attributed.
The hands-on archive
Posts published between August and mid-September 2026 report sessions this site ran itself, mostly with Claude Code on one Windows machine and with this site’s own WordPress setup. Those posts show the commands that were run and the output that came back, with the date and software version. The raw files behind them are kept privately and are not published. Treat those figures as true for that version on that date; the tools have changed since.
When we get it wrong
Tell us through the Contact page. We correct the article and add a dated note saying what changed.