Pulse
What changed on the board
Pulse is where board movement gets explained. A release lands, votes shift, a band changes, and we write down what happened and what it means for the ranking. There is no publishing schedule, because a scoreboard that files a story every day is inventing them.
Reports
Board movement
23 Aug 2026
Eight bylines on this board predated the board itself
agent-verdict.com was registered on August 19, 2026 at 10:11 UTC. Eight articles carried an earlier date, the oldest by eight days, in the visible byline and in structured data. All eight are corrected, along with three of our own correction notices that were stamped before they were written.
Read the report22 Aug 2026
Every published price was audited and republished in the vendor's own currency
An audit of every published price found the euro figures were not conversions of any single exchange rate, with errors running in both directions. Every entry price now shows the vendor's own currency, and four prices with no readable figure were removed rather than re estimated.
Read the report22 Aug 2026
Four corrections to the board, published together
The strongest and weakest axes on every tool page were computed over nine axes instead of ten, the head to head W and L record was not actually derived from the duel table, Totalum and Replit's speed scores are corrected against a cited benchmark, and the Lovable versus Totalum duel is withdrawn.
Read the report22 Aug 2026
The published 0 to 5 rating did not match our own methodology page
The machine readable star rating on every tool page was read from a stored column following an undocumented curve, not from the community score divided by 200 as the scoring page states. It is corrected today, and the visible rating chip is removed from tool pages.
Read the report22 Aug 2026
Windsurf has been absorbed into Devin, and leaves the board
windsurf.com now returns an HTTP 308 redirect to devin.ai/desktop. Windsurf's row, votes and head to head record are retired, not transferred: this board does not carry a separate Devin row for them to move to.
Read the report22 Aug 2026
Gemini CLI's free tier is gone, and its value score reflects that
Google shut off free and personal Pro/Ultra access to Gemini CLI on June 18, 2026, replacing it with Antigravity CLI for individuals. The row stays on the board; the value axis and the composite score do not.
Read the report21 Aug 2026
Mocha has shut down and leaves the board
Mocha stopped selling paid plans and confirmed a full shutdown for 1 August 2026. We have removed it rather than keep ranking a product nobody can buy.
Read the report21 Aug 2026
Marblism did not shut down, it changed category
Marblism is alive and selling. What it sells now is AI employees, not an app builder. We removed it because the product our tagline described is gone, not because the company is.
Read the report21 Aug 2026
Hocoos is gone, and its own homepage is why we missed it
The editor is offline, stored sites were deleted in April 2026, and the pricing page and app subdomain both say so. The marketing homepage kept selling it anyway, which is how it survived our last check.
Read the report20 Aug 2026
Every tool, every axis, one page: the comparison matrix is live
All 45 app builders against all 10 scored axes on a single page, winner marked in every column. No more clicking between tool pages to compare an axis across the field.
Read the report20 Aug 2026
The app builder board grows from 11 to 45 tracked tools
Every AI app builder we could run the standard brief on now has a row. Nothing about the original 11 got worse this week, several of them just have new company.
Read the report20 Aug 2026
Framer and Firebase Studio debut straight into S tier
Two of this week's 34 new entries cleared the S tier bar on their first appearance. Neither one is competing for the same job as Lovable or Totalum.
Read the report19 Aug 2026
Durable takes the small business site duel over Hocoos, 59 to 41
Both generate a full small business site, copy and logo included, from one prompt. The vote split says the built in CRM and invoicing layer is worth more than a cheaper sticker price.
Read the reportAnalysis
Longer pieces on the method
What six points of value actually buys you
Value carries only 6 of the 100 points on this board, and the cheapest tool in a comparison is rarely the one that wins the axis. Here is what the votes actually reward.
Why our board disagrees with enterprise scorecards, and why that is the point
Design 22 and speed 21 out of 100. That single decision explains almost every difference between this board and the scorecards written for procurement teams.
What agent performance actually measures, and why it is only worth 11 points
Autonomy is the most impressive axis to demo and the third most important to the people voting. Here is why the community keeps ranking it below design and speed.
How the tier bands are earned, and why C tier is not a failing grade
S, A, B and C are scope statements as much as quality statements. A tool can be excellent at a small job and sit in C.
How to read Pulse next to the board
The board is the score. Pulse is the reason. If a tool gained forty points in a week, the number alone will not tell you whether that came from a genuine improvement, a viral launch thread or a pricing change that made people reconsider. The report will.
We publish corrections here too. If a row was wrong, the correction appears as a dated report rather than a silent edit, and the tool page carries the new verified date. That is the only honest way to run a scoreboard people are meant to cite.
Weekly rank changes have their own page. If you want the raw movement without commentary, the movers page publishes every rank delta every Monday.