Policy · Disclosure policy version: July 2026
Affiliate & Disclosure Policy
The short version. No academy pays us to appear, and the site is free — no affiliate links, commissions, referral fees, sponsorship, or paid placement.
Our independence
No academy pays us, and no fee decides which academies we list, how we describe them, or where they appear. (An affiliate link is a tracked link that would pay us a commission; we use none.) We lock our comparison criteria before we look at any platform, check every platform against the same criteria, and we keep every academy we looked at on the page — including the ones that didn’t make our shortlist (see our methodology). And no academy can pay, sponsor, or otherwise buy its way onto this site — or into a better position.
A connection we have to tell you about
The author’s own family are paying students at Shankar Mahadevan Academy (SMA), one of the academies compared on this site. We disclose this everywhere SMA appears. SMA is on our shortlist because it met our published criteria — not because of that relationship — and we keep its real trade-offs (fixed 12-week terms rather than pay-per-class) visible alongside its strengths.
When something is uncertain, we say so
Where a platform doesn’t publish a fact, we mark it unverified rather than guess. Vendor self-claims (e.g. a Trustpilot score) are attributed to the vendor, never presented as our own finding.