ARCHIVE INDEX: 439 TOOL ARCHIVES • 135 COMPARISON DOSSIERS • T1 benchmarks recorded: 3 / 448
Archive-derived market research for technical leaders and enterprise buyers. Every figure on this page is computed from 439 published tool archives and 135 comparison dossiers (snapshot 2026-09-17).
Developer workflows keep shifting from IDE autocomplete toward autonomous, terminal-native agents. The AiRecMark archive records 47 coding tools — the largest single category — with a median overall score of 81.2 across the five recorded dimensions, and 37 of them ship a free tier.
This dossier collects the archive-recorded evidence: dimension medians, starting-price floors and update cadence for the category, cross-linked to 135 published head-to-head dossiers. Evaluation coverage stays honest by construction — T1 benchmarks recorded: 3 / 448.
Median score.overall by category · archive-recorded
The flagship dossier on the shift from IDE copilots to autonomous agents, grounded in the 55-archive coding category.
Library-wide pricing economics: 232 paid monthly listings with a median starting price of $15/mo.
55 Coding archives · median overall n/a/100 · 41 free-tier listings · 163 recorded use-case entries.
56 Research archives · median overall n/a/100 · 46 free-tier listings · 166 recorded use-case entries.
56 Writing archives · median overall n/a/100 · 26 free-tier listings · 166 recorded use-case entries.
58 Video archives · median overall n/a/100 · 40 free-tier listings · 166 recorded use-case entries.
55 Audio & Voice archives · median overall n/a/100 · 44 free-tier listings · 165 recorded use-case entries.
55 Design archives · median overall n/a/100 · 40 free-tier listings · 165 recorded use-case entries.
56 App Builders archives · median overall n/a/100 · 48 free-tier listings · 166 recorded use-case entries.
57 Workflow Automation archives · median overall n/a/100 · 35 free-tier listings · 167 recorded use-case entries.
55 archives · 34 numeric starting prices · 41 free-tier · 21 label-fallback listings, unit groups kept separate.
56 archives · 43 numeric starting prices · 46 free-tier · 13 label-fallback listings, unit groups kept separate.
56 archives · 43 numeric starting prices · 26 free-tier · 13 label-fallback listings, unit groups kept separate.
58 archives · 34 numeric starting prices · 40 free-tier · 24 label-fallback listings, unit groups kept separate.
55 archives · 30 numeric starting prices · 44 free-tier · 25 label-fallback listings, unit groups kept separate.
55 archives · 42 numeric starting prices · 40 free-tier · 13 label-fallback listings, unit groups kept separate.
56 archives · 43 numeric starting prices · 48 free-tier · 13 label-fallback listings, unit groups kept separate.
57 archives · 38 numeric starting prices · 35 free-tier · 19 label-fallback listings, unit groups kept separate.
Value for Money Leaders: top 25 of 448 archives by value for money score, with deviation from overall (r=0.56).
Usability Leaders: top 25 of 448 archives by usability score, with deviation from overall (r=0.63).
Performance Leaders: top 25 of 448 archives by performance score, with deviation from overall (r=0.86).
Output Quality Leaders: top 25 of 448 archives by output quality score, with deviation from overall (r=0.82).
Feature Depth Leaders: top 25 of 448 archives by feature depth score, with deviation from overall (r=0.67).
The 20 closest head-to-head dossiers of 170 pairs — smallest recorded gap 0 pts (firebase-studio-vs-retool).
The 20 most one-sided dossiers of 170 pairs — widest recorded gap 9.2 pts (midjourney-vs-sora).
All 195 dossiers grouped by category with mean, median and widest recorded gap per group.
25 multi-tool fields (128 slots, largest 7 tools) with recorded rankings and gaps.
Appearance counts across 195 dossiers — 158 distinct tools; cursor leads with 12.
438/448 archives dated within 30 days, zero in the 31–180 day bands, 10 without a record — all inside the ten-day window.
49 archives record a version, 438 an update date, across 6 distinct dates.
Category × update-record matrix across 448 archives for the 2026-09-06 → 2026-09-17 snapshot window.
Review queue: 10 archives without update records plus the oldest dated entries at snapshot 2026-09-17.
23/448 archives match the keyword rule (5.1%), matched strings quoted verbatim — derived(keyword-rule).
114/448 archives match the keyword rule (25.4%), matched strings quoted verbatim — derived(keyword-rule).
58/448 archives match the keyword rule (12.9%), matched strings quoted verbatim — derived(keyword-rule).
148/448 archives match the keyword rule (33%), matched strings quoted verbatim — derived(keyword-rule).
1324 recorded use-case entries across 448 tools, 1138 distinct strings, weights as recorded (1–10).
163 recorded use-case entries across 55 tools, 139 distinct strings, weights as recorded (1–10).
166 recorded use-case entries across 56 tools, 144 distinct strings, weights as recorded (1–10).
496 recorded use-case entries across 168 tools, 427 distinct strings, weights as recorded (1–10).
The five recorded dimensions, the T0–T3 source-tier census and the exact aggregate rules used across this batch.
Field fill rates across 448 archives — the coverage base every published figure traces back to.
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