Affiliate Disclosure

The short version: some links on this site earn us a commission when you buy through them, at no extra cost to you. Those commissions fund our testing — and they never decide what we recommend.

How it works

When we link to an AI tool, that link may be an affiliate link. If you click it and later purchase a subscription, the vendor pays us a percentage. Your price is identical either way — commissions come out of the vendor’s marketing budget, not your pocket.

In compliance with FTC guidelines (and equivalent rules in the UK, Canada, and Australia), we mark affiliate CTAs in articles, use rel="sponsored" link attributes, and include this site-wide disclosure.

How we stay independent

• We buy our own subscriptions.Vendors don’t give us free accounts for reviews.
• Ratings are set before affiliate status is checked. Our review team scores tools; partnerships are handled separately.
• We recommend non-affiliate tools constantly. Many of our top picks (including several free tools) pay us nothing.
• We publish negative reviews. Including of tools with generous affiliate programs.

Why we use affiliate links at all

Real testing is expensive: subscriptions, deployments inside partner businesses, and hundreds of hours of staff time per year. Affiliate revenue (alongside ads and our newsletter) is what keeps that testing free for you instead of behind a paywall.

Read our editorial policy for the full testing methodology.