How we make money

MTD Compared is free to use. We pay for it through affiliate commissions, and we want you to know exactly how that works.

What an affiliate link is

Some software companies pay us a commission when someone signs up through a link on our site. It costs you nothing extra: you pay the same price as if you went to their website directly. Affiliate links on our site are marked to search engines as sponsored, and every page that contains them says so at the top.

What commissions never change

• Which tools we include. We also cover tools that pay us nothing, including free ones.
• Our scores and rankings. They come from our testing checklist, not from commission rates.
• What we say about a tool's weaknesses.

Our current affiliate relationships

We don't have any active affiliate agreements yet. Links on this site currently go straight to each provider's official website. When that changes, we'll list each programme here.

Other ways we may earn money in future

We may introduce clearly labelled sponsored placements or partner with accountants. Anything paid will always be labelled as such, and kept separate from our independent rankings.

Questions

Email [email protected].