Partners & Transparency

How Vannus makes money — and what it never touches.

Vannus is the jurisdiction record for AI vendors, built around an evidence-gated methodology — we record who legally controls each AI vendor, quoted from the vendor's own published terms. No vendor can pay for a score, a ranking, or inclusion — and affiliate links never influence any of them. We do earn affiliate commissions on some tools that survive evaluation (disclosed per-partner below); the page explains exactly how that revenue is structurally walled off from the scoring engine.

How Vannus Makes Money

Vannus has affiliate relationships with some of the vendors it records. They are listed in full below. When you sign up for a tool through a partner link on this site, we may earn a commission.

Here's what that means and — more importantly — what it doesn't mean.

What Affiliate Partnerships DO NOT Affect

• Scores. Every tool in our database is scored by the same scoring engine using the same criteria. Partner tools receive no scoring bonus, no weight adjustment, and no favorable treatment. A partner vendor's record is produced the same way as any other vendor's, and reads the same when its terms are unfavourable.
• Rankings. Search results and tier classifications are computed independently of commercial relationships. The algorithm does not know which tools have affiliate agreements.
• Inclusion. Vendors are not added to the record because they offer affiliate programs. They are added because someone has to answer a question about them in writing.
• Visibility. Partner vendors do not receive preferential placement in search results or category pages. The record surfaces are commercially neutral.

What Affiliate Partnerships DO Affect

• "Try This Tool" links. On a tool's detail page, below the evaluation scores, you may see a "Try [Tool Name]" button. If we have an affiliate agreement with that tool, the link includes our tracking code. This is always labeled.
• Revenue. Affiliate commissions help fund Vannus's continued development and keep the free tier available.

How to Verify Our Independence

The determinations behind every evaluation are auditable from source evidence — the model-provenance and contracting-entity findings each carry the vendor's own quote and its source. The methodology page explains the nine trust dimensions and the input signals per dimension. If a partner tool receives a score you question, contact us and we will walk you through every signal that contributed. The synthesis weighting itself is proprietary, but any individual score can be audited end-to-end on request.