Transparency

Sponsored and affiliate disclosure

The short version: links earn us a commission only when clearly marked as sponsored or affiliate; it costs you nothing extra and never changes a score or ranking. The longer version is below.

How we make money

SubVerdict is reader-supported. When you click a link clearly marked as sponsored or affiliate and then subscribe, we may receive a commission from the provider. This comes out of their marketing budget, not your pocket — you pay the same price you would have anyway. Those commissions, plus the occasional clearly-labelled sponsored placement, are what fund the testing and keep the site free to read.

What a commercial link looks like here

We want it obvious, not buried. On our pages:

Reviews and guides carry a plain disclosure near the top when they contain sponsored or affiliate links.
Tool buttons are direct affiliate links — /try/ pages; only buttons explicitly marked as sponsored or affiliate are commission-bearing.
All outbound affiliate and sponsored links are static HTML links and use rel="sponsored nofollow", the standard way to tell search engines these are commercial links.
Sponsored placements — like the regulated-exchange option in our payment guide — are labelled "Sponsored" right on the card, every time.

Our promise on independence

Commissions never change a verdict. Scores and rankings are decided before, and independently of, any commercial relationship. A tool we earn nothing from can — and does — outrank a tool we do earn from. If that ever stopped being true, this whole site would be worthless, and we know it.

To keep that real:

No vendor previews or approves a review.
No one can pay to raise a score, move up the leaderboard, or remove criticism.
We disclose sponsorship plainly rather than disguising it as editorial.

A note on the payment guide

Our how-to-pay guide includes a clearly labelled sponsored placement for a regulated cryptocurrency exchange, shown only in the context of one optional step — funding a virtual card. It carries the usual risk and availability caveats, is not financial advice, and has zero influence on any tool review or ranking on this site. We are not that exchange and do not speak for it.

Questions

If anything here is unclear, or you think we've missed a disclosure somewhere, tell us: [email protected]. We'll fix it.

Last updated June 2026.