Project Farm on Youtube has great reviews on many items including AA batteries, also rechargeable batteries. Here’s the review on regular AA batteries. Cheaper is not always more value, in fact it’s the opposite for AA batteries. Cheaper batteries = less value and more cost per milliamp hour.
Amazon Basics actually got a very good score overall. Project Farm is very thorough in his reviews and posts comparison graphs in his videos. The Project Farm channel is here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2rzsm1Qi6N1X-wuOg_p0Ng