Disclosure
Affiliate disclosure
Some links on LetterBench earn us a commission. This page explains exactly how that works — and why it never touches a score.
How commissions work
When you click an affiliate link on LetterBench and sign up for or buy a product, the vendor may pay us a commission. You never pay more because of it — the price is identical whether you use our link or go directly.
What commissions never do
- Scores are fixed before any link is added. We test first, score the tool, and only then consider whether a vendor's affiliate program exists.
- No paid placement. Tools cannot pay to appear higher in rankings or to be reviewed at all.
- No paid scores. A tool cannot buy a better number, and we will remove a link or a review if a vendor ever asks us to change a score.
- Links are disclosed. Every review page carries a notice that it may contain affiliate links, and the same disclosure sits in our methodology.
Why we are transparent about it
Affiliate income is the only thing that funds this site. It only works if readers keep trusting the reviews — so the independence rules above are not marketing, they are the business model. If a review ever reads like a paid ad, it is a bug, and we want to know.
First-party reviews
LetterBench is built by the same small indie team (ERsi Labs) that makes CoverCraft. When we review our own product — and we do, in the same test harness as everything else — the review page carries a prominent first-party notice at the top, and the score is flagged in the rankings as our own product. Treat it as the high-water mark a first-party review can reach, and weigh it against our equally first-hand tests of competitors. We also review competitors' tools that run affiliate programs; those reviews are governed by the rules above and by the no-paid-scores rule, not by our ownership of CoverCraft.