What will a lifetime deal sale page not tell you?
Five gaps this directory exists to fill
How long it takes to pay for itself
The one-off price divided by the founder's real monthly rate. Calculated, never typed. Where there is no monthly plan the cell reads No monthly plan, not a figure we made up.
Whether the limit refills
Credits, audits, searches and lookups are usually monthly allowances that reset, but not always. Reading a one-time bonus as a monthly allowance overstates a deal several times over.
What the crossed-out price really is
Almost always a yearly or lifetime comparison, not a monthly rate. Treating it as monthly would inflate every payback figure on the site, so we never use it.
Two deadlines, not one
How long you have to ask for a refund, and how long you have to claim the licence. They run from the same day you pay and people lose access by assuming they are the same number.
When the founder last shipped
The single most useful number for a lifetime buyer and almost nobody surfaces it. A tool silent for three years carries very different risk from one improved last month.
Where do the numbers on each deal page come from?
Two sources, read by hand, and dated on the day they were read
Two sources, both read by hand
Every price and every limit is read off the sale page and the founder's own pricing page. Nothing is taken from a feed or an API. Both sources are recorded with the date Alston read them, and both are linked at the bottom of the page.
Disagreements are shown, not resolved
Where the sale page and the founder state different limits, we publish both and say they disagree, rather than picking the one that reads better.
Gaps stay visible
Where a figure cannot be checked against a public page, it is not published. The field stays empty and the page says why.
Nothing gets a fresh date without a fresh look
The check date on a page only moves when the sources have actually been read again. It is not a timestamp of the last edit.
What gets listed here, and what does not?
Three conditions, all of which have to hold
- Live on a site we can check for ourselves
- Publishes its plans with real numbers on them
- Looked at within the last 90 days
- Anything failing one of those three is left out, however good the offer looksWe do not list every deal on a site and do not pretend to. Each category page says how many it covers. The SEO deals is the one category open so far.
How does this site make money?
Affiliate links, marked on every page that carries one
Commercial links are affiliate links. If you buy through one, the sale site may pay us a commission at no extra cost to you. It changes nothing about which deals are listed, the order they appear in, or what a page says about them, and the disclosure sits above the fold on every page carrying such a link.
Read the detail
The full disclosure sets out which links earn, what the money does not influence, and how paid placement would be labelled if it ever existed.
Affiliate disclosure →Who checks and publishes every deal?
One person, named, with the work attributed on each page
Alston Antony
SEO and AI Search Expert
SEO and AI search specialist working on B2B SaaS organic growth since 2010, Senior Digital Marketing Manager at Brainstorm Force and founder of ZPlatform.ai. Has bought and tested more than 500 SaaS products since 2019, which is where the buying criteria on this site come from.