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Side-by-side pages for people choosing between named tools, and the benchmark articles that carry the numbers behind them.
Every comparison links its evidence rather than asserting it. The OptiCutter benchmark publishes each job's parts count, stock, yield and sheet count. The CutList Optimizer comparison walks the feature differences. The 2026 field guide ranks browser and desktop tools together, using the same nine-job suite throughout, and the industrial head-to-heads against Magi-Cut and Ardis are published in full at smartcut.dev/benchmarks.
If you are weighing a switch from a specific tool rather than shopping the field, start with the switching guides instead, and if the question is what costs nothing, the free optimizer page answers it directly.