It's hard for any of us to qualitatively rate different brands of the same tool, since most of us just buy one and if it works, we're done. I bought the Park cutter. It works great on all newer 10-speed and brifter type stuff. It also works for the older and fatter cable housing on C&V bikes, SO LONG AS you make a quick, hard cut. "Squeezing" the cut will produce mushed housings and frayed cables. My $.02