Kawsar
The byline on every page here, and the method it is accountable to.
The byline
Every page on this site is published under one byline, Kawsar, and there is no second writer to attribute anything to. His own site is kawsar.me.
The description of the byline has not been published yet, and nothing stands in for it here. What can be checked instead is the method: every figure on this site names the vendor page it came from and the minute it was read, so a reader does not have to take the byline's word for anything. That method is written out in full on the methodology page, and the corrections page says what happens when it fails.
What is published under it
A ledger and a stream. The ledger is the dated reference: live status, plan prices, the limits that come with each plan, and the matching API rates, across the Six consumer services the site tracks. The stream is what changed at the vendors, written the day it changed, collected once a week into a briefing. Alongside them sit 16 guides that answer a question rather than report a change.
The pages are assembled and checked by software on a schedule, under the method linked above, and that is said plainly rather than implied. The byline is accountable for the method, for the sources it is allowed to read, and for every correction made to it. What it is not is a claim to have typed each number by hand.
How a figure reaches a table
The rules in full are on the methodology page. In short: a figure comes from the vendor's own page and from nowhere else, and search results, news articles, comparison blogs and cached copies are never used. A price or a limit wants a second vendor page repeating it, and when only one exists the stamp says "Single source" out loud rather than hiding it.
A limit a vendor writes as words is quoted as words. Turning "5x Pro" into a message count would mean inventing the base number, and an invented number that looks precise is worse than a vague quote that is true. Where a vendor publishes nothing, the table reads "Not published" rather than an estimate.
Every table carries a stamp underneath it holding the source page, the time of the last check in UTC, and whether a second source confirmed it. The date is the only claim made about freshness. If it is old, it says so, and the age is the reader's to judge.
What this byline does not do
- It does not review, rank or recommend a service.
- It does not estimate a price a vendor has not published.
- It does not guess a status a feed has not reported.
- It does not take payment for placement, and no vendor has any say in what appears here.
Where else this name appears
That list is the whole of it. It is the same list the Person node in this page's structured data publishes, so a machine reading the page and a person reading it are told the same thing.
Corrections and contact
A wrong figure is a bug and has a route of its own: the corrections page says what happens to one and lists the ones already made. Anything else goes through contact.