AI guidance you can actually trust.
Independent business technology research since 1996, now focused entirely on helping buyers find, understand, and compare AI tools and services.
Three decades of helping businesses choose better.
BetterBuys was founded in 1996 in New York City by a small team of analysts who believed business buyers deserved better than vendor marketing and anonymous forum threads. For most of three decades we were known for business technology buying guidance. Today we point that same independence at one question: which AI tools and services actually fit your business.
BetterBuys is now a B2B AI discovery portal. We help business owners find, understand, and compare AI tools, and we help AI companies become better labeled, categorized, and understood. We still do not sell software, and money still cannot change a ranking. Sponsored placements are always labeled and never affect where a product ranks.
Inside the editorial office
If a ranking can be bought, it is worthless to the buyer reading it. Sponsored placements on BetterBuys are always labeled, and they never move a product up the list. Our independence is the entire product.Sarah Chen, Editor-in-Chief
Research workspace
How we rank AI tools.
Every product on BetterBuys is scored with a published formula: 35% category fit, 20% use-case fit, 15% buyer and industry fit, 10% integration fit, 10% evidence quality, 5% pricing transparency, and 5% freshness. The weights are public because a ranking you cannot inspect is a ranking you cannot trust.
Our research is AI-assisted and human-edited. Editors review what our systems produce before it ships, and every product page shows a last-verified date so you know exactly how current the information is. Sponsored placements are always labeled and never affect organic ranking order.
Vendors can claim their listing to verify ownership and request corrections. When we get something wrong, we fix it and note the change.
Read how we rankIndependent Since 1996
A track record vendors earned, never bought
Before AI, BetterBuys was best known for independent business technology research. Vendors celebrated our recognition publicly because it could not be purchased. That same standard sits behind every AI ranking we publish today.
Editor's ChoiceQ4 2020
“Toshiba is once again honored to win Better Buys Editor's Choice. Our latest A4 systems offer the functionality and performance of a much larger MFP, all within a compact and durable design.”
Product of the Year2018
“Lexmark is proud that Better Buys recognized our CX923 Series as its Innovative Product of the Year in the high-volume machines category.”
Editor's ChoiceQ3 2019
“The launch of the bizhub i-Series was significant, not only for our company but in office print technology, and we're honored to be recognized by Better Buys.”
Editor's Choice6 Years Running
“Better Buys for Business, the nation's leading independent buyer's guide for office equipment, selected the Xerox DocuMate 4830 for an Editor's Choice Award.”
Award-Winning Vendors
Companies that have competed for, and won, our Editor's Choice Award.
Why Trust BetterBuys
Two decades of editorially independent recognition
Our quarterly Editor's Choice Award and annual Innovative Product of the Year have been earned by Toshiba five times in seven years, by Xerox in six consecutive years, and by Lexmark, Konica Minolta, Kyocera and others across the program's two-decade run.
How BetterBuys helps you find the right AI solution
A simple path from a business problem to a shortlist you can act on.
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Tell us what you need AI to do
Start with a business goal, workflow, pain point, or outcome, not a product name.
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Explore relevant AI categories
BetterBuys shows you the AI categories, tools, and services connected to your need.
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Understand your options
Learn what each type of AI solution does, how it works, who it is for, and what to consider before buying.
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Compare tools and services
Evaluate AI tools and services on fit, using our published editorial scoring.
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Connect with the right providers
Move forward with a clearer shortlist of AI tools and services that match your business.
We match based on
- Business goal
- Company size
- Industry
- Budget
- Timeline
- Existing tools
- Technical complexity
- Team capabilities
How we stay independent
Guidance is only useful if you can trust it. BetterBuys keeps editorial rankings and paid placement strictly separate, and we publish how our scoring works.
Read our ranking methodology and our affiliate and advertising disclosure for the full detail.
- Sponsored placements are always labeled and never affect rankings
- Vendors cannot pay to improve their position in editorial rankings
- Every listing shows a last-verified date so you know how current it is
- Our ranking formula and its weights are published openly
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