How We Price a Teardown

A proper teardown takes twelve to twenty hours: install the product, run traffic, read the contract, test the pixel, and write without flattery.

The cost stack

• Product time: 4–8 hours
• Contract + cookie audit: 2 hours
• Draft + edit: 4–6 hours
• Chart / table production: 2 hours

If a "review" appeared in an afternoon, it is marketing copy wearing a trench coat.

Our rule

We do not accept payment to raise a rank. We do accept affiliate commissions after an honest score. Those are different incentives, and readers can tell.

What readers get

Scores on tracking honesty, cookie window, creative kit, payout speed, fraud screening, and recurring share. See the craft rankings for the current table.

And yes — Stock Picks sits at #1 because we run the case study and publish the EPC, not because someone bought the masthead. Verify the product yourself at stockspicks.org.