How we earn money, and why it doesn't affect what we write.
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Running a review site costs real money. There's server hosting, the time our writers spend testing products, the subscriptions we pay for the tools we review. Affiliate commissions are how we cover those costs.
Here's the deal: when we link to a product and you sign up through that link, the company pays us a small commission. You don't pay anything extra. The price is identical whether you click our link or go directly to the site.
We know the obvious concern: does having a financial relationship with a product make us more likely to recommend it? It's a fair question. Our answer is that it doesn't, and here's why we believe that's actually true.
Claude and Google Gemini are on this site without affiliate relationships. We review them because our readers want to know about them.
Every review on this site includes a "What could be better" section. A review without real downsides isn't a review, it's a sales page.
Tools are ranked based on features, pricing, ease of use, and real-world performance. Commission rates don't factor into our ratings.
We subscribe to paid plans to test features we write about. We aren't given free accounts in exchange for favorable coverage.
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Tools without affiliate relationships that we review: Claude (Anthropic), Google Gemini. We review these because they're important tools in the market, full stop.
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