How we rank
Our method, in plain terms: what we score, how the number is built, and why placement will never be for sale.
The promise, first
Let’s be honest with each other: every site and creator you see here is an affiliate partner — when you sign up through one of our links, we earn a commission. That’s our model and we own it. But here’s the part that never moves: the order is not for sale. Nobody can pay to climb, and nobody can buy a badge. The fattest payout does not get the top spot — and we’ll say so to your face.
What we score
Every site gets four sub-scores out of 10, drawn from public data and the real terms of each offer:
| Criterion | Weight |
|---|---|
| Privacy & safety | 30% |
| Value for money | 30% |
| Size of the crowd | 20% |
| Ease of use | 20% |
How the overall score is built
The out-of-10 score is a weighted average of those four sub-scores, using the weights above. The sub-scores, once an entry is finalised, are our editorial judgement; the maths on top is mechanical and reproducible. We never type a free-floating number — it always derives from the sub-scores.
Honest about the limits
We don’t pretend to measure what we can’t. In their finished form the sub-scores are an informed editorial assessment, not a number from a lab. Right now almost every entry is marked “draft”: its starting score is computed automatically from offer data and is not yet our editorial judgement — it’s provisional until a real person has reviewed it, and those entries stay out of search until then.
Affiliate transparency
Every outbound link goes through a tracked redirect and is marked “sponsored”. It costs you nothing extra and it never affects the ranking. More on our disclosure page.