Disclosure

Our Revenue Model, in Plain Terms

Some links on this site are affiliate links. If you sign up for a platform or buy a course through one, we may earn a commission — at no extra cost to you. That's how a chunk of the testing and writing on this site gets funded, and we'd rather state that plainly than bury it in legal boilerplate nobody reads.

The Line We Won't Cross

A platform paying us a commission does not get a higher score, a better ranking slot, or softer language in its review. Every platform is scored against the exact same Methodology regardless of what, if any, commercial relationship exists. If that sounds like something every site claims, here's the mechanism that actually enforces it: testing and scoring happen completely separately from whatever affiliate arrangement does or doesn't exist for a given platform.

Testing Always Comes Before the Deal

We decide what to cover and how to score it before checking whether there's money to be made from the recommendation. A platform with no affiliate program at all gets exactly the same depth of testing as one that pays a generous commission — you'll find several on this site with zero commercial relationship to us, scored identically to ones that do.

How We Keep Bias Out of the Room

The people writing and scoring reviews don't see which affiliate deals bring in the most revenue, and nobody's pay is tied to how a review performs commercially. That separation exists on purpose: it removes the personal incentive to quietly nudge a score upward for a platform that happens to pay well. If a partner platform's actual quality dropped after a deal started, we'd lower the score and say so — that's happened before, and it will happen again if it needs to.

What You Will Never See Here

We don't accept payment for a guaranteed positive review, a specific score, or a spot on a ranked list. We don't let a platform preview or approve review copy before it goes live. And we don't soften or bury a real weakness — cons, limitations, bad support experiences — just because the platform in question pays us a commission. If a review ever reads like it was written by the platform's own marketing team, that's a mistake worth reporting, not an accepted trade-off.

If We Ever Ran Sponsored Content

We don't currently run sponsored posts or paid placements — every article, review, and comparison on this site exists because we chose to write it, not because someone paid for it to appear. If that ever changes, sponsored material would be labeled clearly as such and kept entirely separate from our tested, scored content — never folded into the rating system itself.

How This Compares to Sites That Don't Disclose Anything

Plenty of course-comparison sites exist purely as affiliate funnels with no real testing behind them at all — a ranking that happens to put the highest-commission platform first isn't a coincidence in those cases, it's the entire business model. We'd rather be transparent about running on affiliate revenue while still proving, through a public methodology and named reviewers, that the revenue model and the ranking are kept apart. Judge us on whether that separation actually holds up across reviews, not just on whether we admit affiliate links exist.

Keeping This Page Honest

We'll update this disclosure any time our funding model or editorial process actually changes, rather than letting it drift out of date while the site evolves underneath it. What you're reading reflects how things work as of the site's most recent content update.

Something Doesn't Add Up?

If anything on this page seems inconsistent with what you're seeing elsewhere on the site, tell us through our Contact page. We'd genuinely rather hear about the inconsistency and fix it than have it sit there unnoticed.