Marketing Index
UpdatedOne score per tool, built from six hands-on evaluations. Every tool gets the same brief for its category, a real budget and a real account.
Stackranked Marketing Index ↗
Marketing Index v1.3 incorporates 6 evaluations: Build-Bench, Audit-Accuracy, Attribution-Match, Citation-Lift, Report-Truth and Agent-Tasks · Higher is better
Score vs. price
What you get for the money. Tools in the shaded corner score above the median and cost less than the median. The line connects the best score available at each price.
Marketing Index vs. Price per month
Stackranked Marketing Index · Cheapest plan that passes the test brief, USD, log scale
Top score over time
Marketing Index of the leading tools, re-tested monthly, January to September 2026
Category Indexes
UpdatedEach category is scored on the jobs people buy that category for. A paid ads tool is tested on building and fixing campaigns, a GEO tool on getting a brand cited in AI answers.
Creative Arena
NewEvery video and creative tool makes an ad from the same product brief. Voters see two ads side by side without tool names and pick the one they would stop scrolling for.
Creative Arena Elo
Elo from blind pairwise votes, with 95% confidence intervals · Higher is better
Benchmarks
The six evaluations behind the index, each run by us on paid plans. Only tools the evaluation applies to are scored on it.
Pricing
List prices, checked on the date of each test. Enterprise prices come from quotes we requested as a 20-person team. Approximate, verify on the vendor's site.
Price per month, cheapest passing plan
USD per month, billed monthly · Lower is better
Setup and support
How long it takes to get something useful out of a tool, and how long you wait when you ask for help.
Leaderboard
All benchmarked tools on one table. Click a column to sort.
Methodology
The rules we test by. They apply to every tool, including the ones whose makers we know.
We pay for every plan
No review accounts and no vendor-run demos. We sign up like a customer and test on the plan a customer would buy.
Same brief for every tool
Each category has one written brief, one test brand and one budget. Every tool in the category gets exactly that.
Blind where it matters
Creative output is judged in the arena without tool names. Audit and attribution results are checked against known answers.
Positions are not for sale
No sponsored slots and no affiliate ordering. Vendors can send corrections. Every change is logged in the changelog.
Articles
Category write-ups with the full ranked list, pricing and the cons for every tool.