The Solthar blog
Guides & Explainers
How we score tools, why we group them the way we do, and what we get wrong. The reasoning behind every rating on this site.
- ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini? Which AI assistant to use now
- AI got cheaper again: how to pay less for the AI you use
- The best free AI tools for students this school year
- The hidden cost of your AI stack
- Benchmarks lie. Here is how to read them anyway
- Open weights or closed API. How to actually decide
- Write prompts that survive the next model
- How we score every AI tool
- Why your AI writing sounds like AI
- AI agents, explained. And why 2026 is their year
- RAG is not a product. It is a plumbing decision
- The state of AI coding tools in 2026
- The workflow beats the tool
- When a free AI tier is actually enough
- AI search changed SEO. What actually matters now
- How to choose an AI image generator