Macrostack
The decision engine for your whole stack — silicon to software, open-source or commercial.
An independent comparison site for technical buyers. Every licence, price and self-hosting claim is verified against primary sources and dated. Rankings are editorial and merit-only — affiliate income never changes an order or a pick.
Audience
Vercel Analytics · 30 days to 2026-08-01
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Macrostack launched in mid-2026 and the audience is early. We publish the real figure rather than a range, and we date it, because a partner deciding whether to work with us should be able to check what we say. It grows or it does not, and either way this page will show which.
Where they come from
- Google19%
- DuckDuckGo6%
- Bing3%
- Perplexity1%
- Kagi + other2%
- Direct & untagged69%
Notable for an AI-adjacent audience: DuckDuckGo, Bing, Perplexity and Kagi together account for roughly as much referred traffic as Google.
Where they are
- United States68%
- China6%
- France3%
- Germany2%
- Netherlands2%
Device
- Desktop75%
- Mobile25%
Readers are developers, engineering leaders and IT teams choosing AI, cloud and infrastructure tooling — not consumer or coupon traffic.
What we cover
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Coverage is organised as the AI stack in five layers — energy, chips, infrastructure, models and applications. We cover 3 of the five and say plainly on the stack map which two we do not.
How partnerships work here
Rankings are never for sale. Every order and every top pick is decided on the published Sovereignty Score rubric and editorial judgement, with no knowledge of commissions. We monetise the recommendation we would have made anyway, and we label it.
We recommend paid products. Roughly a third of our guides conclude that the commercial option is the right answer for a described reader, and each of those says so in its own section. We are not an open-source-only site.
Facts get checked and dated. Licences are read from the repository, not from a directory listing — which is how we came to label Dify, Countly, Meilisearch, PostHog, Infisical and GrowthBook accurately when most lists do not. If we get something wrong about your product, tell us and we will correct it.
What we need from a program. Commission structure and whether it recurs, cookie window, and a docs or pricing page we can verify claims against. Creative assets matter less to us than accuracy.
Contact
Partnerships, corrections and press: team@macrostack.net
Brand assets are available on request. Read the methodology for how facts are verified and how the Sovereignty Score is calculated, and the terms for use of our data.