How we test and how we earn

How we earn

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Akhna, our own app. We also make Akhna, a Mac app for asking questions about your own documents with a model running on your Mac. Where we mention it, we say it is ours. Our measurements come from its benchmark suite, and our Mac numbers should be read with that in mind: that is why we publish the method and the ceiling next to each one.
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Every number carries a label: spec, cited, derived, measured or assumption. "Measured" means measured by us, on hardware we own; everything else is linked to its source or computed with a rule we show.
The machines we have measured are listed on the Measured page with their dates and software versions. Machines we have not used appear with spec, cited and derived numbers only.
Prices carry the date we read them. Memory prices moved every few weeks in 2026, so a price is only true on its date.
Recommendations are written before any link is added, and commission rates do not change the order.
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Corrections are dated on the page they correct.