Here is the lifecycle of a directory listing. A tool launches, gets submitted, gets a description copied from its own homepage, and enters a table. Two years later the pricing page has changed twice, the free tier is gone, the company has pivoted, and the listing still says "free to start."
The reader cannot tell the difference between a listing that is current and one that is a photograph of 2024, so they stop trusting the whole table. That is the failure mode of every product directory, and it is not solved by adding more entries.
A date is a promise you can keep or break
Putting "last verified 1 Nov 2026" on a page is a commitment: something checked the price, the link, and the free tier within the last month. It is also falsifiable, which is what makes it worth anything. A directory that publishes dates can be audited. One that does not is asking for trust it has not earned.
The reason most directories skip this is economic: verifying is labour, listing is not. Scraping a thousand descriptions takes an afternoon. Verifying a thousand prices takes a person, every month, forever.
What we do instead of verifying everything
We keep the set small enough to check weekly and we let the set grow only as fast as we can check it. Every entry carries a date, and anything past thirty days is treated as approximate rather than authoritative. When a check fails — the site is down, the price moved, the free tier vanished — the entry is unpublished rather than left to rot.
That is a slower business model than scraping. It is also the only version of this site that is worth reading in a year.
What to look for in any directory, including this one
A visible date on the entry, not on the homepage. A methodology page that says what gets checked. A way to report an error that does not require an account. And consistent answers: if three listings in the same category claim "free tier" and one of them does not link to a pricing page, that one is probably stale.
None of this is exotic. It is just work that does not scale as neatly as scraping, which is why so few sites do it.