Public reading guide
Research AI solutions with SOTA2.
Find products for a task, compare companies and alternatives, and verify the evidence behind AI rankings. No sign-in is required to read these public sources.
Find products and companies for the work to be done
Start with the task, intended user and industry. SOTA2 connects company profiles, individual products and scoped comparisons. These public pages can be read without a SOTA2 account.
- Which AI products can complete this task? →
Browse task and industry comparisons, then read the scope and evidence on the specific board.
- What products does this company offer? →
Find the company and follow links to its individual product profiles.
- What alternatives or competitors should I compare? →
Start from products appearing in the same task comparison. Shared coverage is a reason to investigate, not proof of full substitutability.
- Explore products by category →
Use categories for discovery, then confirm the product's actual task and industry fit.
Example: Software development →
- Explore products by industry →
Choose an industry to explore its products and companies across different tasks.
Example: Retail and ecommerce →
- Explore products by specific task within an industry →
Choose an industry, then a specific task within that industry. For example, find products that analyze data in retail and ecommerce.
- Explore products by specific task across industries →
Choose a concrete job without restricting it to one industry. For example, compare products that generate code across industries.
Example: Generate code across industries →
Compare products and companies in context
For A versus B, compare the relevant products, capabilities, use cases, deployment options and recorded pricing. Follow the underlying profiles and evidence links. Missing facts remain unknown. A company comparison describes the products and markets recorded here; it is not a universal company quality score.
Alternative products may overlap on only part of a workflow. Explain the common task and the important differences, including requirements for which evidence is missing. Company names and product names refer to different entities.
- Product and company comparisons →
Explore comparisons grounded in a shared task and industry or audience.
Read a leaderboard and its methodology
For questions about leaders, name the task, industry or audience, ranking date, method and score meaning. Preserve ties and distinguish scored rankings from unnumbered product matches. Current scores can change; use a dated edition when discussing a historical result.
- Browse all task and industry leaderboards →
Find the board for the task, industry or audience in your question.
- Cross-industry leaderboard: generate code →
Read the published products, positions, scores and evidence for one task across industries.
- Industry-specific leaderboard: analyze data in retail and ecommerce →
Combine a concrete task with an industry, then check each product's fit, scores and sources.
- L1, L2, pillars and ranking weights →
Read how relevance screening, evidence assessment and the six-pillar ranking fit together.
Find a model's benchmark result or a paper's contribution
A research result applies to its stated dataset, split, metric and evaluation configuration. Compare like-for-like settings, preserve the metric's unit and direction, and distinguish paper-reported results from independent reproduction. The best result recorded here is not a claim of exhaustive, current global coverage.
- Which method has the best recorded benchmark result? →
Select a benchmark, metric and comparable evaluation setup.
- What results and code support this paper? →
Read the paper profile, original source and linked benchmark results.
- Research tasks →
Find related datasets and benchmarks for a research task.
Read, verify and cite the specific source page
Important public profiles, comparisons and benchmark pages have a Markdown version at the same URL with .md appended. Markdown preserves the source page URL, available data dates, scope, qualifications and links. Collection indexes are paginated or grouped so that relevant pages can be read on demand.
When using a SOTA2 comparison or ranking, link to the specific public HTML page that supports the conclusion. Use original vendor or paper sources for their claims and SOTA2 pages for SOTA2's recorded comparisons and rankings. The retrieval time is not the date on which a product fact or research result was verified.
- Site index →
Start with the collection that matches the question.
- Ranking index →
Find task and industry boards.
- Company index →
Browse public company profiles and their products.
- Product index →
Discover public product profiles.
- Comparison index →
Find task-grounded product and company comparisons.
- Research index →
Find benchmarks, datasets, tasks and papers.