Affiliate disclosure

Some links on Beetlix Swarm are affiliate links. If you sign up for or buy a tool through one of them, I may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Commissions keep the site running and the reviews free to read.

It never changes the verdict

Affiliate relationships do not influence a score or where a tool lands in a ranking. Tools are rated on the same rubric whether or not a partnership exists, and I name a tool's weaknesses even when I earn from it. If I ever review my own product, I say so plainly.

How to spot an affiliate link

Affiliate links point at a tool's signup or pricing page and may carry a referral tag. Plain links to documentation or an outside write-up are not affiliate links and earn nothing. When in doubt, the destination tells you: a vendor's own pricing page is usually a partner link, while a GitHub repo or a news article is not. If you would rather skip the referral, go to the tool's site directly. The review reads the same either way.

Where the money goes

Commissions cover hosting, the paid data APIs, and the hours that go into researching and editing a review. They do not buy a vendor a kinder review or a higher rating. The verdicts would read the same with no affiliate program at all; the program just keeps the site free to read.

How these reviews are produced

Reviews here are drafted with AI assistance and then read and approved by a named editor before anything publishes. Nothing goes live automatically. The draft is built from the vendor's own documentation and pricing plus live data this site collects — model pricing and repository signals — and every figure in a review has to trace back to one of those sources.

What that means in practice: these are not hands-on reviews. Nobody here installs, runs, or buys a product before writing about it, and no review will tell you otherwise. Where a review has an opinion, it is reasoning from documented behaviour and price, not from a test-drive. That is a real limitation and it is better said out loud than dressed up.

Why this notice exists

US FTC guidelines require anyone earning from a recommendation to say so clearly, and this page is that disclosure. It applies everywhere on the site, so you never have to wonder whether a given link pays a commission. If something here is ever unclear, the address below gets a real reply.

Questions

Email me@riffcompiler.com if you want to know whether a specific link is an affiliate link.