AI Deep Hub is reader-supported. Some links on this site earn us a commission. Here’s exactly how that works and what it does not buy.
What is an affiliate link?
An affiliate link is a normal link with a tracking code attached. If you click it and later sign up or pay, the vendor knows the referral came from us and pays a percentage of what you spent, or a flat fee.
You pay the same price either way. Affiliate commission comes out of the vendor’s marketing budget, not out of your pocket, and it never unlocks a worse deal for you. Where we can get you a genuinely better price than the public one, we’ll say so on the page.
How do I know which links are affiliate links?
Two ways:
- Every review carries a disclosure box at the top, above the content, before you’ve read a single word of our opinion.
- Every affiliate link is tagged
rel="sponsored"in the page’s HTML, which is the standard Google asks publishers to use. If you view the page source or use a browser extension, you can see exactly which links are monetised and which aren’t.
We don’t write “(affiliate link)” inline next to every link, because that makes articles unreadable. The tag and the top-of-page disclosure do the same job properly.
Which links are not affiliate links?
Plenty of them. We link to:
- Vendor pricing pages and documentation, so you can check our numbers yourself
- Independent reviews, Trustpilot and G2 pages, and Reddit threads, including ones that disagree with us
- News coverage of lawsuits, outages, and policy changes affecting a tool we recommend
- Tools we have no commercial relationship with at all, when they’re the right answer
None of those earn us anything, and several of them actively cost us money by talking readers out of a purchase. They stay because the article is worse without them.
Does affiliate money change our verdicts?
No, and here’s how we keep that true rather than just claiming it:
- Free and cheaper options stay in the comparison. If a free tool beats a paid one for your use case, the free tool wins the recommendation. Some of our top picks pay us nothing.
- Ranking order is never for sale. No vendor has ever paid, or could pay, for a position in a list here.
- No vendor previews a review. Companies find out what we said when you do.
- Negative verdicts stay negative. We have affiliate relationships with tools we tell people to skip, and those articles still say skip.
- Cons are not softened. Every review names who should not buy the tool. If we couldn’t find a real drawback, we didn’t look hard enough.
The commercial logic is simple. This site is worth something only if you trust it. A commission on one signup is worth far less than a reader who comes back.
What else does this site earn from?
As of August 2026, affiliate commission is our only revenue. We don’t run display ads, we don’t sell sponsored posts, we don’t accept payment for reviews, and we don’t sell reader data. If that ever changes, this page changes first and we’ll date the change.
Do we accept free accounts from vendors?
Where a vendor offers a free or discounted account for review purposes, we’ll take it only if it comes with no conditions on what we publish, and we disclose it inside that specific review. A comped account never becomes a positive verdict.
Required disclosure
This page exists to comply with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s endorsement and testimonial guidelines, which require material connections between a publisher and a product to be disclosed clearly and conspicuously. We think that’s the right standard whether it’s required or not.
AI Deep Hub participates in affiliate programmes operated by the AI tool vendors we review and by third-party affiliate networks acting on their behalf.
Questions
If anything here is unclear, or you think a specific page isn’t disclosed properly, email [email protected] and we’ll fix it.
You may also want to read how we test and evaluate tools, which explains what evidence sits behind each verdict.
Last updated 10 August 2026.