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Terms of Service

The terms for using WhyItEarns, buying Pro, reports, paid listings and sponsorships

Who we are

WhyItEarns (whyitearns.com) is an independent publication that breaks down AI products that make money. By using the site you agree to these terms.

Content is research, not advice

Breakdowns, scores, revenue figures and keyword data are research based on public sources. Every revenue figure shows its evidence level, source and date. Nothing on the site is financial, investment or legal advice, and numbers can be wrong or out of date. Report errors and we will correct them.

Accounts

You need an account to favorite products, submit products and make purchases. Keep your login details safe; you are responsible for activity on your account.

Payments

Payments are processed by Waffo, which acts as the merchant of record and may show its own terms at checkout. Prices are in US dollars.

  • Pro (yearly, $29) renews every year until you cancel. Cancelling stops the next renewal; access continues until the end of the paid period.
  • Pro (lifetime, $79) is a one-time payment for Pro access for as long as the site operates.
  • Single report ($7) unlocks one report for your account.
  • Listing ($49, one-time) reviews a product submission within 48 hours. If accepted: a permanent listing with a revenue profile card, 7 days in “Just added” on the homepage, a line in the weekly email and a “Listed on WhyItEarns” badge for your site.
  • Featured Launch ($99, one-time) includes everything in Listing, plus: pinned with a Featured tag in “Just added” for 7 days; pinned with a Featured tag on its category page for 30 days; a labeled “Sponsored pick” card for 30 days on other products’ pages in the same category and on comparison pages in that category; no other sponsored picks on its own page for those 30 days; its own paragraph in the weekly email; one post from our X account marked as sponsored; a “Featured on WhyItEarns” badge; and an email with the card’s impressions and clicks when the 30 days end.
  • Verified revenue ($19 per product per year) renews every year until you cancel. A paid Listing or Featured Launch includes the first year for that product. There is no free plan.
  • Sitewide sponsorship ($99 per 30 days) shows one labeled sponsor card on the homepage, category pages and product pages for 30 days from the start date you pick. At most two sponsors run at the same time.

Refunds

  • Pro: refundable within 7 days of purchase.
  • Revenue verification ($19/year): refundable within 7 days of the first purchase; after that, cancel any time to stop the next renewal. Cancelling stops syncing and deletes your Stripe key (or turns off your Waffo webhook URL).
  • Listing and Featured Launch: fully refunded if the product is not listed.
  • Sponsorship: refundable any time before the start date; fully refunded if the sponsor card is not approved.
  • Single reports are not refundable once unlocked, except where the law requires.

Ask for a refund by email. Refunds go back to the original payment method through Waffo.

Submissions and sponsorships

Payment buys review speed, placement and sponsored content only. It never changes whether a product is listed, how it is scored, or what we write in our own breakdowns, and it never buys a followed link. Revenue claims are shown as verified only when we have checked the evidence. Sponsor cards are always labeled as sponsored, kept apart from our independent breakdowns, and use rel="sponsored nofollow" links. We may reject submissions or sponsorship creatives that are misleading, unlawful or unrelated to the site.

Verified revenue

  • You may connect only a payment account that belongs to the product, and you must have the right to share its revenue. We check the account's website / email domain; if it does not match we review it by hand and may reject it (the key is then deleted).
  • Stripe: we accept read-only restricted keys only. You can revoke the key in Stripe or disconnect it here at any time.
  • Waffo: we never ask for your Waffo key. You add our webhook URL in your store's production environment; we accept only events with a valid Waffo signature, from the first store that sends them, and refuse test-mode events. Waffo numbers count only from the first event (the page says since when); during the first 30 days the page shows the last N days instead of the last 30. Waffo amounts are as Waffo reports them (tax included), and subscription MRR uses the plan price. Disconnecting or not renewing turns the URL off; delete the webhook in Waffo as well.
  • Numbers are computed by our published method (MRR from active and past-due subscriptions, monthly-normalized after recurring discounts; last 30 days = successful charges minus refunds; all-time = the same, added up since the first sync) in your account's default currency without conversion. They can differ from your Stripe dashboard.
  • If the subscription ends, syncing stops and the key is deleted; the page stays up with its last numbers and the last sync date. We may stop a verification that misrepresents revenue.

Acceptable use

Don't scrape the site at a rate that degrades it, resell Pro content, share your account, or try to bypass access controls. Pro content (full entry angles, MVP plans, prompts, full keyword data and full reports) is for your own use.

Violations and termination

If you break these terms, for example by scraping the site at a harmful rate, reselling or republishing Pro content, sharing your account or bypassing access controls, we may warn you, limit or suspend your account, or close it. When an account is closed for a violation, any unused paid access (including the rest of a Pro period) ends without a refund, except where the law requires one. We may also take legal action when needed. You can stop using the site and delete your account at any time.

Changes and contact

We may update these terms; the date above shows the latest version. Questions: see the about page.