Our method

Facts about a platform come from its documentation, its help center or its terms, read on the page itself. When a platform contradicts itself from one page to another, we say so instead of choosing. Pages that only display in JavaScript are read in a browser, not guessed from a summary.

Setup guides describe screens we went through. When we could not read a label, we leave it generic rather than guess it.

Every comparison says what the other tool does better, and a “Who doesn't need Oriva?” section names the cases where it is the right choice. Its prices carry the date we read them; when a price is not published, we write that it is not published and we quote no estimate.

We do not write that a tool “does not have” a feature we have not seen missing: “not listed on the pages read” is not “does not exist”.

A platform's figure is always attributed to the platform, with its link (for example Meta's on cost per result). A figure measured at a customer is only published with their written agreement and the method that produced it. We do not publish a result we cannot explain.

“Published on” is the date of first publication; “Updated on” only appears when a guide's substance changed, not for a comma. Product news is dated in the changelog.

If you find a mistake, write to us (the Contact page): we correct it and we date the correction.

The guides are signed “the Oriva team”. The site puts no one forward, by choice: what should be trusted is the sources cited at the bottom of each guide and, in your account, the log of every send. The About page lists the commitments the product already keeps. The site's publisher and its host are named in the legal notice (in French).