Some of the links on this site are affiliate links. If you click one and buy something, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. That commission does not influence which tools we recommend, and we disclose every affiliate relationship on the pages where it applies. Full details below.
What affiliate links are
An affiliate link is a tracked URL. When you click through it and make a purchase, the tool’s company pays us a small percentage of the sale.
You pay exactly the same price you would if you went directly to the tool. There is no markup, no hidden fee, and no premium for clicking through us. In some cases, our affiliate links include a discount that direct traffic doesn’t get.
How we use the revenue
Running this site isn’t free. Every AI detector and humanizer we review requires a paid subscription to test properly. Our ongoing costs include:
- Subscriptions to the tools we test (usually 10+ active at any time)
- Access to frontier AI models for sample generation (ChatGPT Plus, Claude, Gemini, etc.)
- Website hosting, security, and editorial software
- Time – the single largest cost, and the one most affiliate sites hide
Affiliate commissions fund all of this. Without them, we’d have to either charge readers directly, run intrusive ads, or stop producing the testing that makes this site useful.
What affiliate relationships do NOT do
They do not determine our rankings. If Tool A pays us a 30% recurring commission and Tool B pays us nothing, Tool B can still rank #1 in our comparisons. Our testing methodology is published so you can see exactly how we score.
They do not buy us silence. We publish negative findings about tools we have active affiliate relationships with. If a tool starts producing bad results, we update the review, even if it costs us revenue.
They do not hide behind vague language. Every review and comparison on this site carries a visible disclosure near the top when affiliate links are present. If a page doesn’t mention affiliate links, it doesn’t contain them.
Tools we currently have affiliate relationships with
This list is updated when it changes. As of the last update to this page, we earn affiliate commissions from (among others):
<<List to be updated>>
We’ve also applied to (or use) programs that require different disclosure formats:
- Amazon Associates – As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. (Used primarily for recommended books and hardware.)
- Display advertising networks – Ads you see on this site are algorithmically served; we don’t hand-pick them.
Tools we do NOT have affiliate relationships with
Some tools we cover don’t offer affiliate programs, or we haven’t joined theirs. We still review them. A review without an affiliate link gets the same scrutiny as one with.
Notably, some institutional products are not affiliate-available anywhere. Our coverage of them is editorial-only.
Sponsored content
On rare occasions we publish sponsored posts – where a tool pays us a flat fee to produce content about it. When this happens:
- The post is clearly labeled “Sponsored” at the top
- The content is still fact-checked by us; sponsors don’t get to publish false claims
- Sponsored posts are not included in our “Best of” rankings or comparisons
- We reserve the right to decline any sponsorship, and we do
Sponsored content is a small fraction of what we publish. Independent reviews and guides are the majority.
FTC, ASCI, and legal compliance
This disclosure is written to comply with:
- U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) endorsement guidelines
- Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) influencer guidelines
- EU consumer protection directives where applicable
If you’re a regulator, journalist, or researcher and need more detail than what’s on this page, email us via the contact page and we’ll share what we can.
Questions?
If anything here isn’t clear, or if you’ve seen something on the site that looks like an undisclosed affiliate link, please tell us. We take this seriously.
Reach us at support@agilewow.com or via the contact page.
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