About ThePlanetTools.ai
One builder, a small team of collaborators, zero paid reviews.
Who runs this site
My name is Anthony Martinez. I'm the founder, sole editor, and principal reviewer of ThePlanetTools.ai. I run The Planet Deals LLC, a company registered in Wyoming (United States), and I work out of Bali, Indonesia.
I work with a small circle of collaborators — a few people I ship products with. They are not a marketing team or a bench of hired writers. They are builders who use specific tools daily in their own workflows, and they share what they actually experience. I gather their feedback, cross-check it, and I write every review myself.
That's the whole operation. No newsroom, no freelance mill, no AI-generated fluff published under fake bylines.
Why this site exists
I got tired of review sites that score everything 9/10 because the affiliate commission is better when you recommend harder. I got tired of listicles where the "top pick" is whoever paid the most, and of comparisons that never actually compare anything.
ThePlanetTools.ai is my answer to that. Every tool gets a real score, with a real justification, on a transparent 4-dimension scale. When I love a tool, I say why. When a tool is weak in a category, I say why. If I haven't personally tested something, I say so — and I tell you exactly how the evaluation was built instead.
The goal: help builders, developers, and AI-curious people decide faster, with information they can trust.
How we evaluate tools — three honest paths
The AI and SaaS landscape moves too fast for any single person to personally ship with every tool on the market. So I use three clearly different paths, and I disclose which one applies to each review.
Personal hands-on
Tools I use myself in production — in ThePlanetTools, the Planet Cockpit CMS, or other live products. The review is built on my actual workflows, real bugs hit, real pricing paid. Examples: Claude Code, Cursor, Next.js, Supabase, Vercel, Cloudflare, ElevenLabs, Midjourney.
Collaborator feedback
Tools used daily by people I work with — different workflows, different stacks, different needs (marketing, design, video, finance, data). I collect their structured feedback, ask pointed follow-ups, and turn that into a review. Reviews that rely on this path say so explicitly.
Research-based
Tools nobody in my circle uses, but that still deserve coverage (niche, new, or outside my primary stack). I build the review from verified sources: official documentation, Stack Overflow Developer Survey, independent benchmarks (Artificial Analysis, SWE-Bench, LMSYS Arena), and expert reviews I can vet. When a review is research-based, that is clearly disclosed in the article.
I will never claim to have hands-on tested a tool I haven't. Full stop.
What's on the site right now
The library grows at roughly five to ten new tool reviews per month, with existing reviews revisited every three to six months so that pricing, feature sets, and scores stay current.
What you'll find here
In-depth reviews
Every tool scored on four dimensions, with a clear disclosure of the review path used.
Head-to-head comparisons
Side-by-side matchups covering the real trade-offs — not just specs tables.
Guides & glossary
Technical guides and 86 glossary definitions to demystify AI, dev, and SaaS vocabulary.
Deals, when they're real
Verified discounts only. No fake countdowns, no evergreen "flash sales" that never expire.
Transparency
Some links on ThePlanetTools.ai are affiliate links, meaning I may earn a commission if you purchase through them. This never influences reviews or scores. I recommend tools I genuinely believe provide value — many of which I pay for myself. Full details live in the Affiliate Disclosure.
Want the full methodology? Read the Editorial Policy. Want to see the hardware I test on? Here's the setup.
Get in touch
Spotted a factual error? Want to suggest a tool for review? Running a product and wondering why your score is what it is? Email me directly — I read every message.