Macrostack
The decision engine for your whole stack — silicon to software, open-source or commercial.
An independent comparison site for technical buyers, run by Fandhaal Studio LLC. Every licence, price and self-hosting claim is verified against primary sources and dated. Rankings are editorial and merit-only — affiliate income and sponsorship never change an order or a pick.
In one line: a small site that AI assistants quote a lot. The numbers below say exactly how small and exactly how much.
Cited by AI assistants
Bing Webmaster Tools, AI Performance · Microsoft Copilots and partners · 8 July and 30 September 2026 · read 3 October 2026
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When someone asks Copilot which tool to pick, Macrostack is one of the sources it reads and links. Microsoft describes these figures as a sample, and a citation is an assistant quoting a page — not a person visiting it. On the questions below we hold between 15% and 40% of every citation Bing records (its “citation share”):
| Question asked of Copilot | Citations | Our share |
|---|---|---|
| “Infisical vs AWS Secrets Manager comparison” | 290 | 25.5% |
| “is airtable free” | 272 | 28.3% |
| “is gmail free” | 187 | 23.6% |
| “Is Microsoft 365 free 2026” | 177 | 39.8% |
| “Braintrust alternatives” | 175 | 20.3% |
| “is github free” | 174 | 15.4% |
Readers on the site
235
Google Analytics 4; search, AI assistants and referrals — Direct and Unassigned excluded · 28 days to 3 October 2026. 156 from search, 55 from AI assistants, 24 from referrals; 279 sessions.
1,561
Vercel Web Analytics · 30 days to 4 October 2026. Includes automated and datacentre traffic, which Vercel does not filter — the number on the left is the one to plan with.
Macrostack launched in mid-2026 and its on-site 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. We do not quote raw page views for any window that includes 18 September 2026: an automated scraper inflated them that day.
Search engines that send visitors
- DuckDuckGo313
- Bing119
- Google37
- Qwant25
- Kagi21
Vercel Web Analytics, visitors by referrer, 30 days to 4 October 2026. DuckDuckGo and Bing lead; Google sends little so far.
Who reads it
Developers, engineering leaders and IT teams choosing AI, cloud and infrastructure tooling — not consumer or coupon traffic. 84% of visitors use a desktop (Vercel Web Analytics, 30 days to 4 October 2026).
What we cover
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Live pages: a scan of every live page, 4 October 2026. 413 verified alternatives across the catalogue. 861 pages carry a labelled affiliate offer.
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 how deep each one goes.
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 or sponsors. We monetise the recommendation we would have made anyway, and we label it.
Sponsorship is one labelled card. A Founding Category Sponsor pays $99 for 30 days and gets a card marked “Sponsored” across one category's comparisons, pricing, alternatives and migration pages, placed after the verdict and the ranked list, and a report at the end. If a sponsor ranks third in its own category, it stays third. Terms and price →
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, free.
What we need from an affiliate programme. 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, sponsorship, corrections and press: team@macrostack.net
Operated by Fandhaal Studio LLC, Columbus, Ohio. Read the methodology for how facts are verified and how the Sovereignty Score is calculated, and the terms for use of our data.