Methodology & Independence
This site recommends tools that people spend real money on. That only works if you can see how the recommendations are made. Here is the standard I hold every page to.
Independence
I write and test everything here myself, and no vendor reviews a page before it goes live. Tools get covered because readers ask about them or because they compete in a category I'm testing, never because a company asked to be included. A negative finding stays in the article even when the tool is one I otherwise recommend.
How rankings are decided
On any page with benchmark data, tools are ranked by measured performance: success rate, latency, and effective cost, as described in how I test. Where I have no benchmark, I say so plainly and order tools by the most relevant public metric instead of an invented score. Position in a table is earned on results, and paying customers do not buy their way up.
How this site makes money
Some links here are affiliate links, which means I may earn a commission when a reader starts a paid plan through them. That revenue keeps the testing free to read. It does not change the order of any ranking or the content of any review: a tool that pays a higher commission still loses to a faster one in the tables, and tools with no affiliate program are tested and recommended on the same terms as the rest.
Sources I trust, and ones I don't
For factual claims I rely on primary sources: official documentation, status and pricing pages, court records, regulator guidance, named industry research, and my own measurements. Two kinds of source never appear here as evidence:
- Competing vendors' marketing or blog posts about each other, which are sales material, not data.
- Other review and affiliate sites, whose numbers I can't verify and won't launder as my own.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, I want to fix it. Email marcus@bestscraperapi.com with the page and the issue. When I correct a factual error, I update the page and move its date forward so you can see it was reviewed.