Disclosure

How PageVerified makes money.

PageVerified runs a directory that says which tools passed its checks, and it also sells things. This page lists the ways it is paid and where payment has an effect.

API credits

People and agents buy prepaid credits to call PageVerified's own tools. Prices are on the pricing page. This has no connection to the directory.

Paid featured placements

The maker of a listing can pay for a featured placement. Current prices: $39 for 7 days, $99 for 30 days.

Only a listing that has already been verified can be featured. The checks are the same for free and featured listings, and payment does not change a result.
While a placement runs, the listing appears in the featured row on the home page, where its card is marked "Paid placement", and its own page is marked "Featured launch".
While a placement runs, the listing is also placed ahead of other listings wherever the directory lists tools: the home page and its search, the launch feed and its RSS feed, category pages, alternatives pages, the similar tools on a listing page and the JSON index at /api/tools.json. The JSON record carries the featured_until date.
The directory_search tool lists featured tools first and flags each one with paid_placement: true. On the sign-in connector route, /mcp/connect, results are not reordered by payment.
While a placement runs, every outbound link from the listing's page carries rel="sponsored".
The "best" guide pages at /best/<category> are ordered by launch or verification date only. A placement does not change that order.

Affiliate links

Some listings carry an affiliate link. PageVerified may earn a commission if you sign up through it.

An affiliate link is the button labelled "Try". It carries rel="sponsored", and a note directly below it says it is an affiliate link.
The same page always keeps a direct "Official site" link that pays PageVerified nothing.
Having an affiliate link does not change a listing's verification result or its position.

Not for sale

What payment cannot change

Whether a listing passes verification, and what its record says.
The checks that run. They are described on the methodology page.
The order of the "best" guide pages.
The results of PageVerified's API tools, apart from the order of directory_search results described above.

Questions

If a label is missing or something here does not match what you see on the site, tell us through the support page or at support@pageverified.com.