How this differs from the tools you already use

Where ISK Scout is better

• It is free and works without an account — an ESI login is optional, so you can judge it before you hand anything over.

  S11 · 28 Jul 2026

• It refreshes market data from ESI every five minutes. Our scan pass runs every 24 hours by default, so on freshness it is not close.

  S11 · 28 Jul 2026

• It simulates order-book depth to show profit that is actually executable, and grades each opportunity A–F for reliability.

  S11 · 28 Jul 2026

• It also covers courier-contract analysis and reprocessing arbitrage across items with your skills. We have neither: our only reprocessing view is refine-or-sell on ore in the mining module.

  S11 · 28 Jul 2026

What EVE Forge does here

• Routes come from CCP's own route planner with the in-game Shortest, Safer and Less secure preferences, not from a home-grown idea of a safe route.

  backend/app/services/esi.py

• The search can start from your pilot's live in-game location and shows the pickup jumps from there to the buy hub, so the leg before the haul is part of the plan.

  backend/app/routes/opportunities.py

• Units per trip are capped by your cargo hold and again by the destination's daily traded volume, so a load bigger than the market moves is not counted as profit.

  backend/app/routes/opportunities.py

• Our scan pass ranks on best bid and best ask, covers at most 300 items across five hub regions, and is a Supporter feature; the route-and-cargo Finder is Pro. Stated here so the paragraph above is not read as more than it is.

  backend/app/services/scanner.py

Where Adam4EVE is better

• Deeper market analytics than we have: margin analysis, order depth, price trends, trade volume, price comparison and contract pricing, plus industry profitability, reprocessing, PI and cost-index history.

  S12 · 28 Jul 2026

• An ESI login is optional. The analytics work for a stranger, which is exactly what ours do not do.

  S12 · 28 Jul 2026

• None of it sits behind a tier at all. Our market data is free in every region too, but our all-time history and the corporation tools are sold.

  S12 · 28 Jul 2026

What EVE Forge does here

• Market numbers are joined to your own wallet journal and transactions, so a sale's broker fee is the one your journal recorded — a configured rate is used only where the journal carries no fee row for that trade.

  backend/app/services/finance.py

• Region compare breaks one item down per station inside a region, which is how you find the cheaper station a few jumps off the hub. Our own research rates this parity with a small edge, not a win.

  backend/app/routes/opportunities.py

Where EVE Tycoon is better

• It exists, it is established, and its developer answers questions in a public forum thread — where the replies are praise and feature requests, not privacy objections. We have no track record yet.

  S13 · 28 Jul 2026

• It was built to fill the hole left by EVE Trade Master and Evernus going unmaintained, and it has been tracking trade and industry profit ever since. On profit tracking this is parity at best for us.

  S13 · 28 Jul 2026

• It runs a 3-day free trial of the paid tier. EVE Forge has none. The trade finder now shows a free account its top five routes rather than a locked door, but all-time history is still bought on description alone.

  S13 · 28 Jul 2026

What EVE Forge does here

• Your mining ledger is kept permanently. ESI serves the last 30 days; every sync folds that window into durable rows, so the history keeps accruing.

  backend/app/models.py

• Killmails are stored permanently, because ESI's recent-killmails endpoint only reaches back a short window and what falls off it is gone.

  backend/app/services/killmails.py

• Every ESI response body is also archived verbatim, deduplicated by content hash, with no tokens and no request headers kept.

  backend/app/services/esi_archive.py

• Wallet and mining history start at your first sync. Public killmail history is the exception: a paced zKillboard backfill recovers older kills and losses, while ESI supplies new ones.

  frontend/src/components/killboard.tsx

• Our tier model was modelled on theirs, character count and all. Our own project notes say so in as many words, and this page is not the place to pretend otherwise.

  docs/project.md

Where zKillboard is better

• It is the reference implementation and it is free — named among the ten best third-party tools in the game, on scale and ease of use. Anything we ship is a personal view of your own killmails, not a killboard, and we do not intend to compete for that word.

  S23 · 28 Jul 2026

What EVE Forge does here

• Your own kills and losses, kept from your first sync onward and shown next to the rest of your account's records.

  backend/app/services/killmails.py

Where SeAT and Alliance Auth is better

• Both are free, and both are open source — you can read exactly what the software does with your scopes before you grant them. EVE Forge is closed source, so that route is not available here.

  S20 · 28 Jul 2026

• Alliance Auth is the access-control layer a large group already runs, EVE University included. If you have a sysadmin, free-and-yours beats hosted-and-ours.

  S21 · 28 Jul 2026

• SeAT also covers corporation and alliance tracking including moon reporting, which we do not do.

  S20 · 28 Jul 2026

What EVE Forge does here

• Nothing for you to host: the server, database, cache and upgrades in this stack are ours to run. That is the whole argument for a corporation without a sysadmin, and the only one.

  docker/docker-compose.yml

• Corporation data is gated on your live in-game roles, fetched from ESI at request time. Without Accountant or Director, CCP answers 403, the section stays empty and we say so rather than work around it.

  backend/app/routes/group.py