head to head/Developer Tools

Plain vs The Machine Record

Neck and neck on boosts. Profiles, pricing and deals below.

Plain

Support built for B2B and developer tools

community boosts

⚡ 0

pricing

Paid

what it is

Plain is a lean, API-first support platform designed for technical products: shared inbox, Slack-native workflows and customer context pulled from your own systems. Support tooling that feels like an engineering tool.

The Machine Record

Get the data

community boosts

⚡ 0

pricing

Freemium

what it is

The register as open data: JSON API without a key, daily CSV and JSON mirrors on GitHub, Hugging Face and Kaggle, a Zenodo DOI for citation, RSS feeds per company. Case metadata is CC BY 4.0.