Compare a few options and help me see the differences

A few options, a phone plan, an apartment, a vendor, a school, and no clean way to compare them because each one lists different details in a different order. The point of this isn’t getting AI to pick. It’s getting the same facts lined up so you can.

Do this

1. Gather what you have on each option: a link, a screenshot, a paragraph you wrote from memory, whatever exists.
2. Name what actually matters to you, even roughly. Price, timing, a specific feature, a gut concern.
3. Ask for a comparison table, not a recommendation, using the prompt below.
4. Look specifically at the “unknown” cells. Those are your actual to-do list.

Here are the options I'm comparing:
Option A: [paste or describe]
Option B: [paste or describe]
Option C: [paste or describe, if there is one]

What matters to me: [criteria, even if rough, e.g. "monthly cost,
how soon it's available, whether I can cancel easily"]

Build a comparison table using my criteria as rows and the options
as columns. Mark anything you can't determine from what I gave you
as "unknown," don't guess. Then list the real tradeoffs between the
top two, in plain language. Don't tell me which one to pick.

Check this before you trust it

• Every “unknown” cell. These are exactly the things worth a phone call or a closer look before you decide.
• Prices and dates, against the original source, not the table. Numbers drift when they pass through a summary.
• Whether your stated criteria actually match what you care about. It’s easy to list “price” and realize halfway through that timing mattered more.

If it goes wrong

It recommends one anyway, despite being asked not to. Ignore the recommendation and use the table. Some tools default to being helpful in a way that overrides the instruction; that’s a reason to double down on “don’t recommend,” not a reason to take the suggestion.

The table looks confident but the underlying info was thin. A comparison is only as good as what you fed it. If most cells came from a one-line description, treat the table as a starting structure, not a verdict.

Two options turn out to be not actually comparable. Sometimes that’s the real finding. A table that surfaces “these aren’t solving the same problem” is more useful than one that forces a false apples-to-apples read.

You still can’t decide after seeing the table. That’s normal, and not a sign the tool failed. A clean comparison narrows a decision; it doesn’t replace the judgment call at the end.