About inetGeek
inetGeek is an independent infrastructure research site that compares 222 cloud and developer-infrastructure providers across 41 categories, using only what each provider publishes about itself, for developers and technical founders choosing where to build.
What inetGeek does
Sourced provider fact sheets
Every one of the 222 providers has a page listing its pricing, limits, compliance and platform capabilities, 3,332 figures in all. Each figure carries the provider's own page it was read from, the sentence it was read from, and the date — so you can check a number in one click instead of trusting it.
Side-by-side comparisons
453 comparisons put two providers' sourced figures next to each other and say where they actually differ. Where inetGeek leans toward one side, the lean shows its basis, computed by published rules rather than written per page.
iScore
A 0–100 score for each provider against its category peers, with an 80% interval beside it. A rank is only claimed where the scores genuinely separate; everywhere else the page says the providers cannot be told apart. How it is computed.
Stack guides and the planner
13 stack pages show which hosts document running Next.js, Django, WordPress and others, and link each host's own guide. The planner assembles a layer-by-layer setup — hosting, database, storage and the rest — with a price floor built from sourced entry prices.
DNS and email tools
6 free tools — DNS Lookup, MX Lookup, SPF Checker, DMARC Checker, DNS Propagation Checker, WHOIS Lookup — query live DNS through public resolvers and return the answer. inetGeek does not store the domains you look up; what is processed and by whom is set out in the privacy policy.
Data for AI assistants
The same data is published for machines: an MCP server with 19 tools, JSON feeds listed in the API catalogue, and a Markdown copy of every provider and comparison page. The MCP server's source is on GitHub under the MIT licence, and nothing requires an account.
The public ledger
The ledger lists every vendor page inetGeek read and found silent on a criterion, with the date, and every change made to a published figure — including whether the vendor moved it or inetGeek corrected its own reading. A vendor can find every claim made about them in one place.
What makes inetGeek different
Every figure points at the vendor’s own sentence
The 3,332 figures on inetGeek are quoted from 1,316 pages the providers themselves publish, each linked and dated. Review aggregators such as G2 rank software from user reviews instead, and G2's own methodology says those reviews "do not constitute expert opinions based on objective criteria."
Reviews answer "do people like it". A cited figure answers "what does the plan actually include", which is the question a limit or a price decides.
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Research Scoring Methodologies — G2 Documentation ↗
“A software’s G2 Score is calculated using two scoring components: Satisfaction and Market Presence [...] Reviews do not constitute expert opinions based on objective criteria.”
Read 2026-09-23 · official docs
Nobody pays for placement
inetGeek has no affiliate links, no sponsored placements and no paid rankings, so the order providers appear in is decided by sourced data and stated criteria. Affiliate-funded review sites work differently: HostingAdvice.com discloses that the compensation it receives "may impact how and where products appear across the site (including, for example, the order in which they appear)."
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- 21 Best Web Hosting Services (2026) — HostingAdvice.com ↗
“we receive compensation from many of the offers listed on the site. Along with key review factors, this compensation may impact how and where products appear across the site (including, for example, the order in which they appear).”
Read 2026-09-23 · official site
Neither side writes the comparison
Many comparisons are published by one of the two products being compared. Supabase's "Supabase vs Firebase" page, on supabase.com, concludes that "Supabase is a compelling alternative"; inetGeek has no product in any comparison it publishes, and draws each difference from both vendors' own pages.
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Supabase vs Firebase — supabase.com ↗
“For teams that anticipate complex data relationships, need fine‑grained access control, or want predictable costs and open‑source flexibility, Supabase is a compelling alternative.”
Read 2026-09-23 · official site
Dated, and current where AI assistants are not
AI assistants answer from training data with a cutoff date — Anthropic's own model documentation points readers to "the reliable-knowledge and training-data cutoffs behind each model." Every inetGeek figure carries the date it was last read from the vendor's page, and the MCP server lets an assistant fetch those figures at question time instead of recalling them.
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Models overview — Claude Docs ↗
“for the reliable-knowledge and training-data cutoffs behind each model, see Anthropic's Transparency Hub”
Read 2026-09-23 · official docs
Uncertainty is shown, and blanks are not filled
An iScore comes with its interval, and a rank is only claimed where the gap is real. A criterion a provider does not publish stays empty instead of being estimated — and where inetGeek read the vendor's page and found nothing, that is recorded with the date in the public ledger, so "not documented" and "not checked" are never confused.
Who inetGeek is for
- Developers choosing hosting, a managed database or object storage for a new project, who want the limits before they sign up.
- Technical founders and early-stage teams comparing free tiers, entry prices and startup-credit programmes.
- Engineers checking SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS or GDPR claims against the vendor's own trust pages.
- Anyone debugging a domain's DNS, MX, SPF or DMARC records.
- AI assistants and agents that need current, cited infrastructure data, through the MCP server or the JSON feeds.
- Vendors checking how their product is represented — and correcting it.
The team behind inetGeek
Palash Bagchi, founder
Palash Bagchi founded Immortal Reality PA LLC, a software company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which operates inetGeek alongside several other products. He maintains the site, decides what is published, and approves the recommendation on every provider page.
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Why it was started
Most infrastructure comparisons are ranked by commission, and the figures that actually decide the choice — an inode limit, whether exceeding a cap throttles or bills you, what a database does when it goes idle, what egress costs past the free tier — are published somewhere obscure by each provider and almost never collected side by side. inetGeek went live on 5 September 2026 to collect them, with the source recorded against every one.
Who does the work
One named person, working with AI tools: sourcing passes and the site's code are written with Claude, and readings of vendor text are classified by TypeSafe's Jev. Scripts check each quote against the vendor's live page and flag anything they cannot confirm; the decision to publish is his.
How inetGeek works
How a figure gets onto the site
A sourcing pass, assisted by AI, reads the provider's own page and returns the value, the sentence it came from, and the URL. Before import, a script fetches that page again and checks the quoted sentence is on it word for word, and any quote it cannot confirm is flagged for a person to look at.
Judgments that are readings of that text — does this sentence establish this column, for this tier — are classified by a model against the written definition of each column. What is published is decided by the site's maintainer, and every provider's "choose this if" guidance carries his name (222 of 222).
How it stays current
A drift check re-reads the pages inetGeek cites and flags any quoted sentence that is no longer there, which is how a vendor's silent repricing is noticed. When a figure changes, the value, its quote and its date change together, and the change is published in the ledger.
How to reach it, and how corrections work
There is one channel: corrections@inetgeek.com. Every sourced figure has a "Report a correction" link beside its source that fills in which figure you mean; a correction is checked against the vendor's current public page, and applied if that page says something different. What happens to a correction.
Getting started
There is nothing to sign up for. The site, the tools and the data are free and need no account; an AI assistant can be connected with one command from the MCP page.
Key facts
- Company name
- inetGeek
- Type
- Independent infrastructure research site with free DNS and email tools
- Founded
- 5 September 2026
- Founder
- Palash Bagchi
- Operated by
- Immortal Reality PA LLC
- Headquarters
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
- Website
- inetgeek.com
- Core offering
- Comparisons of cloud and developer-infrastructure providers built only from each provider's own published documentation, every figure cited and dated
- Pricing
- Free
- Contract terms
- None — no account, no sign-up
- Services
- Provider fact sheets, comparisons, iScore, stack guides, infrastructure planner, DNS and email tools, MCP server, JSON feeds, public ledger
- Coverage
- 222 providers · 41 categories · 453 comparisons · 3,332 sourced figures from 1,316 vendor pages
- Communication
- corrections@inetgeek.com
- Funding
- No affiliate links, sponsored placements or paid rankings
- Competitors
- Software review aggregators such as G2; affiliate-funded hosting review sites such as HostingAdvice.com; comparison pages written by one of the vendors compared; AI assistants answering from training data
Where it is honestly incomplete
Coverage is uneven because publishing is: providers with thorough documentation have twenty or more sourced figures, and marketing-led sites far fewer. inetGeek would rather show that unevenness than even it out with guesses. The count below is computed from the data on every build.
What this site currently holds
Counted from the data at build time, not typed into the page. A claim about our own coverage is held to the same rule as a claim about a provider: if it can drift out of sync with reality, it is wrong to write it as a literal.
Coverage
- 233
- providersacross 41 categories
- 453
- comparisonspublished, gate passed
- 128
- criteriadefined in the comparison table
Evidence
- 3,546
- sourced facts15.2 per provider on average
- 297
- source domainsfirst-party, cited per figure
- 737
- comparable figurescarry a unit, so they can be ranked
What we cannot stand behind
- 14
- facts we cannot re-readthe vendor blocks or challenges our checker
Every figure carries the date it was read. The oldest in the corpus was verified on 5 September 2026, the newest on 17 October 2026. Anything that ages past its field's limit stops being published rather than quietly staying on the page.
Frequently asked questions
Is inetGeek free?
Yes. The comparisons, the tools, the JSON feeds and the MCP server are all free, and none of them needs an account.
Does inetGeek earn a commission when I choose a provider?
No. There are currently no affiliate relationships, sponsored placements or paid rankings on the site. If that ever changes, affiliate links will be marked in the markup and disclosed on the page carrying them, and they will not affect which provider appears first or what a comparison concludes.
Where do the numbers come from?
From each provider's own pricing pages, documentation and trust centre. Every figure links to the page it was read from, quotes the sentence it came from, and shows the date it was read.
Are the figures benchmarks?
No. Nothing on inetGeek was measured by inetGeek; every figure is what the provider publishes. That makes it verifiable, but it is not independent testing, and where a provider publishes nothing, the cell stays empty.
Why is a figure missing for some providers?
Because that provider does not publish it, or inetGeek has not yet read the page that would. Where the vendor's page was read and was silent, the ledger records that with the date, so an empty cell is never presented as a "no".
How do I report a wrong figure?
Use "Report a correction" beside the figure's source, or email corrections@inetgeek.com. Corrections are checked against the provider's current public page, and the change is published in the ledger.
Can AI assistants use inetGeek's data?
Yes. The MCP server gives assistants such as Claude direct access to the same sourced figures, and the JSON feeds and Markdown copies are open to any client. Every value an assistant gets back carries its source URL and date.
Who decides the recommendations?
Palash Bagchi. Each provider's "choose this if" and "consider something else when" guidance carries his name and an approval in the data itself, because a recommendation nobody will put their name to is not worth reading.