Advertising disclosure
Where the money comes from, what it touches, and what it is not permitted to touch.
Last reviewed 30 July 2026
The arrangement
AdsCompass is a commercial partner of this site, and that partnership is what pays for the work described in the remit. Outbound links pointing at that platform are placed under the arrangement, and readers should assume the operator is compensated in connection with it. Nothing else on these pages is sold: there are no display units, no paid inserts inside the comparison, no sponsored paragraphs, and no other platform has bought anything here.
Operator: confirm this paragraph before launch. It is written on the conservative assumption that compensation exists, which is the safe default under advertising rules in most markets. If no compensation of any kind changes hands, replace it with the no-payment wording supplied in the project README and add nothing else.
How the links are marked
Every outbound link to the partner carries campaign parameters, so clicks arriving there can be attributed to this domain. Those parameters are visible in the address bar the moment you arrive — hover any of the buttons and you will see them before you click. They count traffic and nothing about you personally, which the privacy policy covers in detail; they do not change what the destination shows or charges.
Links to documentation, standards bodies, statutes and legal commentary carry no commercial tagging at all, and are marked so search engines do not read them as endorsements. If a link is not to the partner, no money is attached to it — and none of those destinations is under this site's control, a point the terms of use make in full.
Why that platform leads the table
It sits at the top on published entry price, which at the time of review is the joint lowest among the self-serve options and the only one matched on both sides of the trade. That ordering is argued in the comparison itself and can be checked against each vendor's own signup flow in about ten minutes.
Two things follow from being a partner, and naming them beats claiming the arrangement is invisible — the same reason the byline states what its holder has and has not done. The partner's product is described at greater length than the others, because access to its documentation and support desk is better. And its name appears in the recommendation column of the situational table wherever entry cost is the deciding constraint. Both are disclosed here so that a reader can discount them if they wish.
What the arrangement does not reach
It does not alter a published minimum, a payout term or a format list — those come from the sources described in the methodology and are wrong or right independently of who pays for anything. It does not stop the comparison naming situations in which the partner is the wrong choice, and the article does exactly that, at length, in its own section. It does not buy the removal of a rival, add a platform that has no business being listed, or suppress a correction.
Checking this yourself
Three checks, none of which requires taking anything on trust. Read the source of any page and look at which outbound links carry campaign parameters and which do not. Open each named vendor's payments or signup page and compare the entry figure against the table. Read the section of the comparison that argues against the partner and judge whether it reads like something a sponsor would have written.
If any of those checks fails, that is a correction, and reporting one runs through contact.