Our tests & research
How We Know collects the TGK articles built on our own testing, direct comparisons, investigations and first-hand experience. These are the pieces where we show what we tried, what happened, what it cost, where things failed and how we reached the conclusion.
We gave 10 popular AI image models the same three tasks: a photorealistic face, exact text inside a hospital screen and a luxury fragrance ad, then compared every first result and failure.
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We put Grok 4.6 against Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol in five real tasks. It did not win the set, but it proved it can call the best models its peers while charging much less.
Seedance made the best AI image-to-video clips in my three tests. Kling came surprisingly close for around one-third of the price.
Five Seedance 2.5 tests cost us only $19.62. Some clips looked almost real. Then our 30-second tennis match lost the ball and the plot.
I tested Microsoft’s new Mage-Flow image model through its public Hugging Face demo. Fast mode produced an ugly, obviously AI image; Quality mode produced nothing at all and still burned through my credits.
Long Nano Banana prompts can work perfectly, but most images do not need one. We tested both approaches and looked at which instructions made a difference.
TGK tested a four-image Nano Banana Pro process for keeping the same AI face and body across completely different scenes without training a LoRA.
I gave seven AI image generators the same task, then tested six of them with the same six edits. Every image shown is the first result I got.
NordVPN, ExpressVPN and Surfshark are decent when you want something simple. In more difficult countries, the protocol and server setup matter far more than the famous logo.
Not every TGK article belongs here. A score by itself proves very little; the useful part is seeing what was tested, what happened, what it cost and where the conclusion becomes less certain.
The method changes with the subject: shared prompts and first results for an AI comparison, real use across countries and networks for a VPN report, or evidence checked against the claims in an investigation. Every piece here should leave the reader able to follow how we reached the judgment.