Essays on how we score AI tools, which agents actually ship, and what the real monthly bill looks like. No sponsored posts — ever.
Every AI tool on Cloudbase gets scored the same way — by humans, against a 7-criteria rubric that weights what actually matters to operators.
We gave twelve agent platforms the same real support-ticket workload for thirty days. Four of them could not close a single ticket without a human rescuing it.
Eight people. Twenty-seven AI subscriptions. $4,312 a month before we started trimming. Here's the full itemized bill, and where the fat actually was.