How Everything Xiaomi puts things in order
Every app on a chart gets a score out of ten, drawn as a battery 8.6. The score is made from what can be checked — nobody's opinion of a logo.
What the score is made of
What the maker publishes
Dated facts read from the maker’s own pages: features, limits, the company behind it. More published, more points.
Prices you can read
Plans with real prices on the maker’s pricing page. A price we could not read is never guessed.
A free plan that exists
Only when a free plan is on the pricing page — a free trial counts for less.
Where it runs
Android and iOS first, then the web, Windows, macOS and Linux.
Open source
Code you can read and run yourself.
Breadth
How many of our charts the app earns a place on.
Freshness
Checked within the last year.
The research centre’s own order
Each list’s editors give an order hint; it settles close calls.
Phones, devices, chips and AI models
These charts are finders, not rankings. A phone or a chip is sorted by when it came out, newest first; an AI model by the figure the chart is about — the cheapest per million tokens, the longest context, or the newest. They carry no score. A router, which sends each request to another model and so costs and remembers what that model does, is left out of the cheapest and longest-context finders.
What payment can change
Everything Xiaomi is paid for by the makers who advertise on it. A maker can buy a numbered place on a chart, a place beside a rival on that rival's alternatives page, a paid listing with a direct link to its site, or a sponsor line on a chart. A bought place sits where it was bought, and the entries below it move down one. Chart rows do not carry a label saying which places were bought; this page and our disclosure say that they exist. Paying vendors may get a fuller, more detailed review from our editors, and that review can change their score.
Claiming a page is free and changes nothing about its place: it lets the maker correct a fact, which we check before it shows.
When things change
Charts are put back in order every morning from the latest facts. A fact a maker corrects shows after our check.