Disclosure

FirmFax earns from 25 of the 71 firms on this site, and it happens two ways. With 24 of them we hold a commission link: a reader follows it, later buys an evaluation, and the firm pays us a share of that purchase. With one more there is no link at all, only our own discount code, and the credit comes from that code being typed at checkout. Both are commission and both are counted here. 8 of these arrangements pay on renewals as well as the first sale. The remaining 46 firms pay us nothing, and are listed on exactly the same terms.

That is the whole of the revenue. No firm pays to be listed, to be covered, to be ranked, to be featured in a guide, or to have a status note removed. We take no payment for coverage of any kind, and no firm sees a page before it publishes.

A commission-bearing link goes to /go/{firm}/ and carries rel="sponsored nofollow". A firm we have no arrangement with links straight to its own website with rel="nofollow" and earns us nothing. Buttons for partner firms also read "Deal link" or "Open offer" where a non-partner reads "Visit firm", so the difference is visible before you click, not only in the status bar.

Two cases are easy to miss, so they are stated here. Citation links can be commercial: when a source we cite on the methodology page or a firm page sits on a partner firm’s own domain, that citation is routed through the same tracked redirect. And the "Live deals" strip that runs site-wide lists only firms we have a link with — it is an advertising rail, not a ranking, and it is ordered by whether a deal exists before it is ordered by score.

FirmFax publishes this dataset through a machine interface as well as through this website. An assistant or other software can request firm records directly and present them inside a product that is not this one. The records are the same records: the same 71 firms, the same scores, the same dated sources.

Responses from that interface can carry commission-bearing links, on the same terms as the links here. The 25 firms that pay us are the same 25, the arrangement is the same arrangement, and no firm pays for its record to be served or for its link to be included in a response. Every commission-bearing link in a response carries this sentence with it, in the same record: “FirmFax may earn a commission if you sign up through this link. Ranking and scoring cannot read commercial terms: the scoring model has no access to the affiliate data.” A link that arrives without it is not a shape this interface can produce.

What that cannot do is put the disclosure in front of you. A product that receives our data decides how to render it, and it may show that statement, shorten it, or omit it entirely. That is a property of publishing to machines rather than to readers: this page is a surface we control and a third-party interface is not. Where our data reaches you inside another product, this page is the statement of record.

Scores are computed from firm data alone. The scoring code takes no affiliate input of any kind: not whether a firm pays us, not what it pays, not how long the cookie lasts. The same is true of the penalties and the status labels. Ranked tables order on the score or on a published figure such as price — never on whether a firm pays us. The one place partnership does decide what appears is the "Live deals" strip described above, which is why it is labelled as deals rather than as a ranking.

A firm cannot buy a higher score, a better placement, or the removal of a red flag, and paying us more does not soften how its rules are described. If any of that ever changes, this page changes first.

The same rule governs corrections. A firm that pays us a commission and one that pays us nothing get identical treatment when either tells us we have its rules wrong: the claim is checked against that firm’s own published pages, the outcome is published on the corrections log whichever way it goes, and every entry there is marked with whether we hold a commercial arrangement with the firm involved.

A firm can also tell us something we cannot find on any page it publishes. That claim is recorded with the firm named and the date it was made, shown as the firm’s own statement rather than a published term, and it never reaches the score. Where it conflicts with the firm’s own live pages, both are shown and neither is presented as the winner. In September 2026 one such document reached us from a partnerships contact, in the same message that asked us to join that firm’s commission program. It is recorded exactly as it would have been had the program never been mentioned, and if we ever do take that program, the count of firms that pay us at the top of this page changes on its own.

1 firm has given FirmFax something of value that is not a commission. Every instance is listed below with the date it was received and whether the firm offered it or we asked. None of it is payment for coverage, none of it was conditional on anything, and none of it changes a score, a ranking, a status label or how a rule is described. It is listed anyway, because the point of a disclosure is that the reader decides what to make of it rather than us deciding for them.

Finotive Funding, 2026-09-07: A funded 25K evaluation account, provided on affiliate approval so the product can be described from use rather than from its marketing pages. Offered by the firm; we did not ask.

Entries here are never removed. A benefit that has ended is still a benefit that was held while pages were being written, so it stays on the record with its end date rather than disappearing.

FAX is our own code and it is not universal: it is named at the 10 firms that hold it, and it is what we print there even when that firm also advertises a public code of its own. At those firms the two are worth the same discount and ours is the one that credits us, which is how the site is paid for. Everywhere else there is no code of ours to offer, so what you see is the firm’s own published code, or no code at all where the firm publishes none. Where a discount is already applied at checkout and needs no code, we say so rather than implying a code earned it.

Discount amounts are read from official promo pages, offer marketplaces and coupon monitors, and each one carries the source it came from and the date it was read. Promotions move quickly, so treat a dated figure as a dated figure and confirm the price at checkout.

Firm records are compiled from public sources and re-checked in batches rather than on a fixed schedule. Each firm page shows its own last-reviewed date, its cited sources, and a confidence tag — verified means every checked claim was confirmed against the firm’s own pages, partial means some claims are still open. Read the date on the page rather than assuming today.

Source links are re-tested for reachability regularly, which confirms a page still answers, not that its contents still say what we recorded.

Nothing here is financial, investment, legal, or tax advice. Prop-firm evaluations carry real cost and real risk, and a high score does not guarantee a payout or that you will pass.

Rules change between account types and over time. Verify current terms on the firm’s official pages before you pay for anything.