About TechCompare

Who runs TechCompare

TechCompare is an independent project maintained by a small editorial team. We build tools to answer the small, practical questions that search engines cannot answer directly: how sharp is a 27-inch 1440p monitor, how long does it take to copy 1 TB over Gigabit Ethernet, or what does chmod 755 actually grant. Each tool targets one specific question rather than trying to be a general-purpose suite.

Many of the current calculators started as requests from our Discord community, where people asked for answers no existing site gave them cleanly.

Editorial methodology

Every calculation on TechCompare is verified at build time, not at runtime. The same pure calculation functions that power the interactive tools also pre-compute the answers baked into our programmatic landing pages. This means the H1, meta description, and visible stats on a landing page always reflect the authoritative answer, not a template string.

We run a dedicated verification script (scripts/verify-landings.mjs) as part of our build pipeline that re-runs every featured calculation and checks the output matches the numbers quoted in the landing page copy. If a calculation drifts, the build fails rather than shipping a page with a wrong answer.

Comparison pages are hand-written per topic, not template-generated. This is deliberate: Google's "scaled content abuse" classifier targets sites that mass-produce near-identical pages, and hand-written prose keeps every comparison genuinely unique. The spec tables are data-driven so the numbers stay accurate, but the intro, context, verdict, and per-side recommendations are written by a human for each slug.

Corrections policy

If you spot an error in a calculation, a spec table, or a piece of prose, please report it in our Discord community. We fix factual errors as quickly as possible and bump the dateModified field in the page's structured data so search engines and AI engines pick up the correction.

Pricing comparisons (LLM API costs, for example) change frequently. We update those tables when providers publish new pricing, but always check the provider's official pricing page before making a purchasing decision based on our numbers.

Privacy

Tools like the Password Generator, JSON Formatter, and the calculators never send your inputs anywhere. All work happens inside your browser. Anonymous, aggregated site analytics help us understand which tools people find useful. Read the full privacy policy for details.