We Fact-Checked 100 AI Tool Listings — 46 Were Wrong
In August 2026 we hand-checked all 100 tools on this directory against their official sites. 46 had outdated pricing, dead plans, or worse. Here is what we found.
In August 2026, we re-verified every single tool on this directory by hand. We opened each official pricing page, checked whether the product was still alive, and followed the domains that had moved. Of 100 tools, 46 had outdated information. Nearly half. Three products were dead or acquired, and one listing promoted a model that never existed.
This article is the receipt. Here is exactly what we found, and why you should stop trusting directories that don't show their work.
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How We Checked
Each tool was verified against its official source — the pricing page, product docs, or the live site itself. We checked four things:
- Pricing and plans — current tiers, monthly vs annual rates
- Product status — alive, maintenance mode, acquired, or shut down
- Links — official domains move, and dead links hide it
- What changed — plan renames, price hikes, discontinued tiers
Every check was done by hand, one tool at a time. No dates were backfilled.
The Numbers
| What We Found | Count |
|---|---|
| Tools with fully current info | 54 |
| Tools with outdated pricing or plans | 46 |
| Dead products (shut down) | 2 |
| Acquired, paid product discontinued | 1 |
| Retired model still being promoted | 1 |
The Worst Finds
DALL-E 4 never existed. OpenAI retired the DALL-E line in November 2025 and removed DALL-E 2/3 from the API in May 2026. The image model you actually get in ChatGPT today is GPT Image 2. The old listing promoted a product that was never released. It has been rewritten.
Phind shut down in January 2026. The developer-focused AI search engine quietly closed. Its page now says so, instead of linking to a dead product.
Rows was wound down in May 2026. Acquired by Superhuman in February, shut down by May. Its page says so too.
Copilot Pro was discontinued for new subscribers. Microsoft folded its perks into M365 Premium in late 2025. Existing subscribers keep it only until August 2026 — which is now.
Plan renames wiped out "current" pricing. Gemini's Advanced became AI Pro (with new Plus/Ultra tiers). Grammarly's Premium became Pro. Replit retired Teams entirely. Surfer's Essential became Standard. WellSaid rebuilt its whole ladder. All of these looked fine until you actually opened the pricing page.
Prices moved in both directions. Synthesia cut prices ~38%. QuillBot's monthly rate rose to $19.95. ElevenLabs' Starter went up a dollar while Scale dropped $31. Kling AI cut list prices in early 2026.
Domains moved. Cursor is now cursor.com, not cursor.sh. Runway moved to runway.com. ComfyUI's official domain was never comfyui.org — it's comfy.org. Pixelcut became Pixa.
What This Means for You
Every directory claims to be "up to date." Most of them are copy-pasted from each other, mistakes included. The only way to know how fresh a listing is: find a date on the listing itself.
That's why every tool page here now shows a Last Verified date — the day someone actually checked the pricing and features at the source. Green checkmark means verified that day. "Not yet verified" means we haven't re-checked it yet, and we say so instead of pretending.
If a directory can't tell you when its information was checked, assume it wasn't.
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*We re-verify tools continuously and update pages when things change. Found something stale? Tell us and we'll re-check it.*