About Certalyze

By Certalyze Research Desk Automated Research & Source Audit

Reviewed by Certalyze Source Audit Updated 2026-04-26

Certalyze is a data-driven publisher of IT certification information. We compile and structure public data — salary aggregates, exam costs, pass rate reports, job market signals — across 60+ certifications, with per-field source tracking and a public corrections log.

How Certalyze actually works (the honest version)

Certalyze does not have an in-house panel of certified experts who personally take every exam we cover. Pretending otherwise would be the kind of silent inflation of authority that the IT certification space already has too much of. Instead, we run an explicit, transparent pipeline:

Per-field source tracking. Every numeric claim — exam price, pass rate, average salary, job listings, study hours — is mapped to a FieldSource record with a tier (official, aggregate, community, editorial), URL, and checkedAt date. Critical fields cannot rely on editorial-tier sources alone; the build-time validator blocks publication if they do.
Automated schema validation. Every change to a certification, comparison, or career path goes through schema validation, internal cross-reference auditing, and full-site rebuild before reaching the live site. CI blocks merge to main on any failure.
Multi-AI adversarial review. Editorial decisions and methodological changes are run through external AI auditors (DeepSeek, Gemini, Groq, ChatGPT) with explicit instructions to push back, not validate by inertia. Findings that two or more auditors converge on are treated as real findings.
Public corrections log. Every material change to published data — including internal-consistency corrections caught during audits — is recorded at /corrections/ with date, what was wrong, what it was changed to, and the source that triggered the update. Forward-only since launch; we do not retroactively backfill the log.
Weekly automated audits. A scheduled job runs link-rot detection, source-freshness audits (flagging any checkedAt older than 180 days), and schema regression checks. Results are exported as artifacts; no automated edits happen.
Daily content backups as versioned artifacts, with documented restore.

What this is not: it is not a replacement for sitting an exam yourself. We do not claim first-hand exam experience unless explicitly stated on a specific page. Roughly 92% of certification pages currently carry a "pattern-generated, pending manual verification" disclaimer on their source records — meaning the field-level sources were generated against likely official URLs but have not been individually contrasted by a human reviewer yet. We do not promote a page to fully verified until that contrast happens.

What Makes Us Different

Per-field, not page-level, sourcing

Most certification sites cite sources at the page level ("according to BLS data"). We map each individual numeric claim to a specific URL and the date it was last checked, so a skeptical reader can verify any given number directly.

Vendor neutral by construction

No vendor partnerships, no affiliate relationships with certification providers, no sponsored content. AWS, Azure, GCP, CompTIA, ISC2, ISACA, and PMI are evaluated on the same criteria with the same rigor. Future monetization will come from advertising, not from steering readers toward specific vendors.

Forward-only corrections

The corrections log starts on the date the site went public and only records changes from that day forward. We do not reconstruct an "always been transparent" history. If a correction appears in the log, it actually happened.

Disclaimers we mean

Pages with auto-generated source records carry a visible "pending manual verification" note. We do not silently treat them as the same as fully verified pages, and we publish operational tests to detect when that disclaimer drifts from honesty into alibi.

What We Cover

Certalyze currently tracks certifications across five major categories:

Cloud Computing — AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes
Cybersecurity — CompTIA Security+, CISSP, CISM, CySA+, CEH
Data & Analytics — CompTIA Data+, Google Data Analytics, Power BI, Tableau
Project Management — PMP, ITIL, PRINCE2, Scrum Master, CAPM
Networking — Cisco CCNA, CompTIA Network+, AWS Networking

We also maintain 48 side-by-side comparisons and 20 career path roadmaps to help you plan your certification journey strategically.

Where the data comes from

The intended source distribution per field. Actual sources used on a given page are visible in that page's source records:

Salary dataUS Bureau of Labor Statistics, salary aggregators, public job posting samples (US median estimates only)

Job listingsActive postings on major boards, sampled rather than scraped continuously

Pass ratesCommunity-reported estimates aggregated from public discussion. Vendors do not publish official pass rates.

Exam detailsOfficial provider documentation (vendor exam pages, vendor study guides)

Market trendsIndustry reports and labor market sources cited per claim

For the full operational description — including the 4-tier source classification, the staleness threshold, and the rules that govern when a page is allowed to drop the "pending manual verification" disclaimer — see our methodology. For our content standards, see our editorial standards.

Contact

Have a question, correction, or suggestion? We welcome feedback from the certification community. Reach us at [email protected].