How this site is funded
Some links here earn a commission and most do not. This page says exactly which, because a disclosure buried in a footer is not really a disclosure.
The short version
- Links that can earn are marked paid link and carry
rel="sponsored". - You never pay more for using one.
- Vendor-direct links earn nothing and are labelled as such.
- Nothing here is a paid placement. No company has paid to appear, rank, or be recommended.
Why a commission cannot change a ranking
Every performance figure on this site is computed by one published formula applied identically to every machine. No row is hand-placed, no score is adjusted, and the sort order comes from whichever column you click. Products that pay nothing sit in the same table as products that do, scored the same way.
That is not a promise about my character; it is a property of how the site is built. The formula is public and the data is in the repository, so if a number here ever flattered a paying product, it would be checkable — and the reproducibility is worth far more to me than any commission.
The buy-vs-rent calculator is the clearest case. It routinely concludes that renting beats buying — right now it will tell you a $15,499 card takes about ten years of daily use to pay back against cloud rental. That answer is worse for hardware commissions and it is the one the arithmetic gives, so it is the one shown.
Programmes that currently earn
| Programme | Applies to | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Associates amazon.com, www.amazon.com | retail | Commission on computers and components is low single digits and per-item capped, so a $15k GPU does not pay what its price suggests. PA-API access additionally needs 3 qualifying sales in 180 days. Not permitted inside a native app — the iOS bundle deliberately carries webPath instead. |
Links that earn nothing
These are here because they are the right place to send you, not because they pay. Some are vendor-direct; others are programmes not joined, in which case the link is plain and is not marked sponsored — marking it otherwise would be a false disclosure.
Prices
Hardware prices are captured at a point in time and shown with the date they were read. They move constantly, and the price at the retailer when you check out is the one that applies. Cloud rates come from each provider's own pricing page, never from a comparison article.
As an Amazon Associate, qualifying purchases earn a commission.
In the app
The iOS app contains no affiliate links at all. Amazon's operating agreement does not permit them in a native app, so the app links out to this site instead — which is also why the app's generated content carries a page path rather than a buy URL.