About this site

Monitor Pickers is a small, opinionated guide for people who haven't bought a monitor in a few years. The catalog tracks 740 models; the quiz turns three answers into three concrete picks (a hero, a cheaper alternative, and a stretch upgrade) instead of leaving you to read forum threads.

What's AI-written, what's not

The per-monitor descriptions, the "good for" phrases, and the "skip if" warnings are written by Claude (Anthropic's model) from each monitor's spec sheet. There's a small AI summarybadge on every detail page so you always know which prose is machine-written. I chose AI for this because hand-writing 700+ monitor blurbs at consistent quality wasn't realistic for a one-person project, and the model is good at the "explain this spec in plain English" task.

The recommendation engine, the quiz logic, the editorial rules (what counts as "real HDR" vs marketing HDR, which panel types matter for which use cases, why 60Hz isn't gaming-grade, etc.), and the scoring weights are mine. The model writes the prose; the structure that decides what to recommend is human-designed and version-controlled.

How the picks are chosen

Three answers — what you'll use it for, your budget, your space — feed a scoring engine that ranks every monitor in the catalog. Three roles get surfaced: a hero (the best pick at your budget), a saver (a cheaper alternative that still hits your top requirement), and a stretch (slightly above-budget but meaningfully better). The engine never sees affiliate commission rates — see the affiliate disclosure for the full statement on that.

What's not done yet

Honest about the gaps:

• Price coverage isn't complete.Currently only monitors with at least one live retailer price are shown — that's ~262 of the ~740 we track. The rest get hidden until the scraper backfills their prices. (Best Buy blocks our scraper; affiliate API signup is in progress.)
• Hand-on reviews don't exist yet. Everything here is spec-derived. No one on this site has personally used these monitors. Cross-reference with RTINGS or the manufacturer page for anything that matters to your purchase.
• Some hero images are placeholders.A few brands (AOC, Samsung, ViewSonic) serve generic logos instead of product shots; we're fixing per-brand image scrapers gradually.

Spot something wrong?

The most useful thing you can do is tell us. Spec errors, stale prices, broken links, picks that seem off — the feedback form goes to an inbox we actually read.