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How we earn
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Commission never changes our scores
Commission rates are not an input to our comparison. They never change our scores, our order of providers or which provider we name as best for a use case.
How the comparison scores
Each VPN is scored per use case (remote work, streaming, budget, privacy) on fact-based criteria with published weights. Facts come only from providers' own pages and published audit reports, each dated. We don't run our own speed tests. Research is assisted by Cipher, an AI analyst.