Editorial policy
devshot.co is the home of the Devshot newsletter. It publishes reviews of developer tools (AI coding assistants, hosting and databases, CI/CD, observability, API tooling), pricing explainers such as Cursor and Claude Code pricing, guides for engineering teams, and a statistics page built from our own data.
| Section | Pages | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Reviews | 66 | 40 ranked buying guides and 26 single-product reviews of developer software |
| Guides | 35 | How-to articles, comparisons and pricing explainers |
| News | 3 | Posts on the day's software development stories |
| Statistics | 1 | Pages built from our own data |
Who is responsible
Devshot is published by Dupple, an independent media company founded by Louis Corneloup in Paris in 2023. Pages are published under the byline of Louis Corneloup, Dupple's founder, and corrections go to his address. The Devshot newsletter and this site are written for backend and full-stack engineers, SREs, platform teams and senior individual contributors.
How a page is made
- Brief. Each review and guide starts from a brief that names the question it answers, the products it covers and, before any writing, the verified facts it may use: plan names, prices, billing basis, free plan or trial, each with the URL and date it was read.
- Research on first-party sources. For developer tools the source of record is the vendor's pricing page and documentation, and for open-source projects the repository itself. Devshot pages link GitHub for open-source tools and the vendor's docs for limits, quotas and plan features.
- Drafting with AI assistance. Drafts are produced with AI writing assistance from the brief. The draft may not contradict the verified facts anywhere: summary, table, product cards or FAQ.
- Fact-check. Every price, plan, version, feature and statistic in the draft is checked again against a first-party source: the vendor's own page, or our own data. A fact that cannot be confirmed that way is removed, not kept because it was already there.
- Quality checks. An automated check must pass before a page is committed: house style (no filler words), structure (sections, comparison table, FAQ), internal and source links, dated data points, and no leftovers from research such as a page that failed to load. The page is then reviewed against a written quality bar: is the answer in the first paragraph, do the numbers match everywhere on the page, does each pick say when to choose it over the others.
- Publish and date. The page shows when it was last updated. The publication date never changes after the fact; the updated date moves only when the content genuinely changed.
Sources and prices
Developer tools often show a yearly rate as the headline price. Devshot pages give the price at the billing interval the page names: Cursor Pro is $20 billed monthly and $16 billed yearly, and a page that quoted the yearly rate as "the price" was corrected. Prices a vendor publishes only in euros, such as Gatling Enterprise, stay in euros.
- Prices come only from the vendor's own pricing page, and review pages state the month they were checked or last updated (for example "checked September 2026"). Pages written or refreshed under the current process also link the exact vendor page the numbers were read on; older pages get those links when they are refreshed.
- Currencies are shown as the vendor lists them. A price published in euros is never converted to dollars; if a vendor publishes only a regional list, the page says so.
- No price is guessed. A plan with no published price is shown as "Custom" or "Contact sales". When a page gives a ballpark for such a plan, it is a third-party figure labelled as an estimate with its source named, never presented as the vendor's price.
- Products are checked to be alive and current on their own site before they are listed; features are taken from the vendor's documentation or changelog, not from other reviews.
The outside domains our pages link to most often, by number of pages: github.com (26), cursor.com (24), aws.amazon.com (17), claude.com (15), render.com (12), digitalocean.com (10), railway.com (10), supabase.com (10), devin.ai (8), datadoghq.com (7). Links to our own sites and social networks are not counted.
How we use AI
AI writing assistance produces first drafts from a brief that already holds the verified facts, and helps with structure and editing. It is not a source: no price, plan, statistic or quote on devshot.co is published because a model said so. We do not claim hands-on testing we did not do: Devshot does not run a test lab. Our pages compare vendor documentation, pricing pages, changelogs and public user reports.
Updates
A page is refreshed when its prices are older than 60 days, when a product it names is discontinued, renamed or acquired, or when a reader or vendor shows us it is wrong. A refresh re-checks every price and product status on the vendor's page. The most recent review update on this site is dated October 14, 2026. Substantive fixes are listed on our corrections page.
Independence and money
The Devshot newsletter is free and paid for by sponsors. Each issue carries at most three sponsors, and every sponsored section is labelled. The site is also funded by affiliate commissions and by vendors who pay to be listed in some guides. Some outbound links to products are affiliate links: if you buy, we may earn a commission. The product links our page templates generate carry rel="sponsored".
Paid placements and affiliate links are flagged on the page. Every guide and article ends with one generic line: "Some offers on this page may be paid placements or contain affiliate links." A paid placement can set that vendor's position in the guide, and the vendor may write or approve the text of its own entry. Some products are also on a list because they have an affiliate program with us; they get the same card as every other product, with prices from their own pricing page and their cons. The full disclosure is on dupple.com/affiliate-disclosure.
In practice
- /reviews/best-load-testing-tools: Best Load Testing Tools keeps Gatling's euro price as Gatling lists it next to the dollar prices of the other tools, and explains why the headline prices are not comparable.
- /statistics/ai-coding-statistics: AI Coding Statistics is built from our own data and is free to cite with attribution.
Tell us what we got wrong
Email [email protected] with the page URL and the correction. Vendors disputing a fact should include the primary source (the page where the right figure is published). See how corrections work and how we rate.