Affiliate Disclosure

Plain English on how this site makes money.

The short version

Some links on StackBudget are affiliate links. If you click one and buy something, we may earn a small commission , usually 10-30% of the subscription cost. This doesn't cost you anything. Prices are the same whether you use our link or go to the product directly.

How affiliate links work

When we link to a product, the link sometimes contains a small tag (a few characters like ?ref=stackbudget or ?aff=123) that tells the product's affiliate system "this visitor came from StackBudget." If you buy, the affiliate program credits us. That's it. We don't get your email, your name, your data , just a confirmation that a sale happened.

Programs we're part of

Where applicable, links on StackBudget route through these affiliate programs:

• Tool-specific programs , Most SaaS tools we review have their own affiliate programs (Obsidian, Notion, Jasper, Claude, etc.). We sign up directly.
• Aggregator networks , For tools without direct programs, we use Impact, ShareASale, Awin, or CJ Affiliate.
• Amazon Associates , For any physical product links (rare).

Our editorial policy

Affiliate commissions do not affect which products we cover or what we say about them. We:

• Pay for every product we review with our own money
• Use each product for at least 30 days before writing a review
• Write the review first, then add affiliate links , never the other way around
• Recommend products we genuinely use, not the highest-paying ones
• Disclose affiliate links clearly on every page (you're reading the disclosure right now)

If a product is bad

We say so plainly. We have recommended competitors in the same article when the right call is to buy something else. We've written articles that essentially say "don't pay for this category at all, the free tier is enough." That costs us the commission. We do it anyway because that's the point.

Questions

If you want to know whether a specific link on this site is paid, or what we'd earn if you bought through it, email us: hello [at] stackbudget [dot] com. We'll tell you straight.