Reference / Sponsorship
One sponsor.
Never a vendor we evaluate.
EgressCost.com carries a single sponsorship: one clearly labelled strip, held by one company at a time, exclusive for that company's category. Vendors this site evaluates are not eligible to hold it. Everything the site is trusted for stays off the table.
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This strip is the entire sponsorship. It is labelled in plain language, links carry rel="sponsored", and it never appears on a page covering the sponsor's own products or its category competitors.
The hard rule
Vendors we evaluate are not eligible to sponsor this site.
The sponsor comes from outside the market the site covers, so the coverage owes it nothing.
The rule runs page by page as well as site-wide. If the sponsor operates in a category any page touches, the strip is absent from that page and from every page covering its competitors. Readers never meet the sponsor next to a comparison it could care about.
[01]Never for sale
sponsor or notSponsorship buys the strip and nothing else. The following are editorial. They are the reason the site is worth sponsoring.
Where a provider sits in any table or index on this site. Position is set by the published rate, nothing else.
Which provider comes out cheapest in a comparison or scenario. The math decides, and the math is shown.
Which providers appear in the calculator, their order, and their defaults. No provider can buy its way in or a rival's way out.
The verified-date marks on pricing figures. Verification is free for every vendor, sponsor or not.
What gets covered, how it is framed, and what conclusions are drawn. The sponsor sees pages when readers do.
Any vendor can ask us to re-verify a figure against its published pricing page at no cost. Sponsorship buys no priority in that queue.
[02]What the sponsor receives
one slot · one companyThe offer is deliberately small. A scarce, clean association with an independent reference that engineers already use, and nothing that would compromise it.
One labelled strip
A single strip reading “Independent research, supported by X”, on pages where no conflict exists. That is the whole placement.
Category exclusivity
One sponsor at a time, exclusive for the sponsor's own category. No rotation, no second slot, no bidding.
Monthly performance report
A written report each month covering how the site and the strip performed. Sent directly, not through a dashboard.
A founding rate
Early sponsors lock a founding rate that holds as the site grows. Terms are discussed by email, not published here.
Disclosure
Sponsorship on this site is disclosed the way pricing is published here: plainly. The strip says who the sponsor is in ordinary words, sponsor links carry rel="sponsored", and this page stays public so anyone can check what the arrangement does and does not include.
Enquire
If the model above reads fairly to you, write to Oliver directly. Not sure your category qualifies? Ask anyway; if this site is not the fit, another in the network usually is. Early sponsors lock a founding rate.
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