Primary sources

Every source behind every score

Last verified: 2026-08-19

Every score cell on this site cites at least one record below, and the build fails if one does not. 18 records back 16 cells across two products. 3 are older than 90 days and flagged for re-reading. Each cell and each source carries its own date; the site date is 2026-08-19.

Needs recheck · 6 items

What is queued for a re-read?

6 items are past the 90 day window, oldest first. Scores stand until the source is re-read; a re-read that moves a number lands in the changelog and, if we were wrong, in corrections.

BAND confidence9 sources
HIGH5/8MED3/8VERIFY0/8

No cell is flagged for re-verification.

Buzz confidence9 sources
HIGH4/8MED3/8VERIFY1/8

1 cell still marked VERIFY. Price the uncertainty before you buy on this total.

What counts as evidence here?

Source kinds are printed on every row. A source note lists published claims, not our measurements. A vendor page, docs page, or changelog entry is a dated quote from the vendor. A repository record is something read in public source. Nothing is scored from a press release or a third-party summary.

Sources sorted by capture date, newest first. Stale means older than 90 days against the site verification date.
SourceBacksCaptured
VENDOR PAGE

“2-week data retention; single user, personal non-commercial use only since 2026-09-17.”

Hosted only. Free retains two weeks and is personal, non-commercial use only; export gated to Pro; custom retention gated to Enterprise (pricing page). Source: band.ai/pricing, as recorded 2026-09-20.

BAND
Data control
CURRENT 2026-09-20
0 days old
VENDOR PAGE

“$17.99/month”

Tiers and caps published, including Free's two-week retention and non-commercial limit. Enterprise is quote-based, which caps the score. Source: band.ai/pricing, as recorded 2026-09-20.

BAND
Cost honesty
CURRENT 2026-09-20
0 days old
VENDOR PAGE

“Download Buzz and create a community.”

Setup is a desktop install plus an account plus a relay choice, not a hosted signup.

Buzz
Time to real work
CURRENT 2026-08-19
0 days old
SOURCE NOTE

Not measured by us; scored from published sources.

Buzz
Time to real work
CURRENT 2026-08-19
0 days old
VENDOR PAGE

“Chat to plans, project management, coding, reviews, PRs.”

The product positions a git-native plan-to-PR loop as its core.

Buzz
Developer workflow fit
CURRENT 2026-08-19
0 days old
VENDOR PAGE

“Block-hosted relays are not end-to-end encrypted.”

Independently operated relays keep content off Block's service; hosted relays do not.

Buzz
Data control
CURRENT 2026-08-19
0 days old
VENDOR PAGE

“Limits may increase over time.”

The product is a Developer Preview with movable limits, and relay operation is the buyer's problem.

Buzz
Day-2 operations
CURRENT 2026-08-19
0 days old
VENDOR PAGE

“5 GB media storage, 365-day content retention, 5 communities per account.”

Caps are published in plain text and free pricing is hedged, not concealed.

Buzz
Cost honesty
CURRENT 2026-08-19
0 days old
VENDOR PAGE

No install: a $0 tier signup, connect agents, open a room.

BAND
Time to real work
CURRENT 2026-08-19
0 days old
SOURCE NOTE

Not measured by us; scored from published sources.

BAND
Time to real work
CURRENT 2026-08-19
0 days old
VENDOR PAGE

BAND is an interaction layer. There is no published plan-to-PR loop; your dev tooling stays put.

BAND
Developer workflow fit
CURRENT 2026-08-19
0 days old
VENDOR PAGE

“LangGraph, Claude, OpenClaw, Parlant, Letta, Google, n8n, CrewAI.”

Eight frameworks named on the marketing surface; bring-your-own-agent is the thesis.

BAND
Extensibility and interop
CURRENT 2026-08-19
0 days old
VENDOR PAGE

“Each agent keeps its own tools, models, and memory.”

Model choice stays with the agent, so no provider lock is imposed by the layer.

BAND
Model flexibility
CURRENT 2026-08-19
0 days old
DOCS PAGE

A support page plus a public repo is the whole docs surface at preview stage.

Buzz
Community and docs
AGEING 2026-06-14
66 days old
VENDOR PAGE

Managed service with published per-tier agent, room, and participant caps. Vendor is young.

BAND
Day-2 operations
AGEING 2026-06-01
79 days old
REPOSITORY

The application is open source, so extension surfaces are inspectable. Cross-framework breadth is not enumerated.

Buzz
Extensibility and interop
VERIFY 2026-05-02
109 days old
DOCS PAGE

A real docs site, a Discord, and an engineering blog. Installed-base evidence is thin.

BAND
Community and docs
VERIFY 2026-04-20
121 days old
REPOSITORY

Provider support is not documented on the marketing surface. Flagged VERIFY until the repo is read line by line.

Buzz
Model flexibility
VERIFY 2026-04-10
131 days old

How do we handle a source that changes?

The record keeps its capture date and the cell keeps its score until we re-read the source. When a re-read moves a number, the change lands in the changelog with both values and the date, and the weights that produced the totals stay published on how we score.