01How we make money
Search Legion is free to read. Some links to software vendors are affiliate links: if you click one and buy, the vendor may pay us a commission. You don't pay more.
02What that doesn't change
- Scores and rankings are set before we know whether a vendor has an affiliate program, and a commission never moves them.
- Vendors can't pay to be reviewed, to be included in a list, or to see a page before it's published.
- We cover tools with no affiliate program the same way as tools with one.
- Free plans and open-source tools get the same treatment, even though they rarely pay a commission.
03How to spot them
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04Why we use them
Commissions pay for the research behind every page: reading each vendor's pricing page and docs, collecting what users say, and re-checking prices so the dates we show stay current. Search Legion has no ads, no paywall and no sponsored placements, so affiliate links are the one way the site earns money.