Published commercial terms

Pay for the work. Never for the result.

Assessments cost nothing — most are our own initiative, and a manufacturer can ask us to assess an uncovered product at no charge. The only fee on this page is the optional licence to advertise with the seal after a pass.

Independence clause
Payment cannot raise a score, waive a gate, or turn a failed assessment into an award. Nor does refusing to pay remove an award that was already earned.

01 / Every assessment

Product assessment

Freeevery product · every time

01Evidence-based evaluation against the active category benchmark
02Deterministic report with sources and score derivation
03Open outcome: the product can fail or be not assessable

Never billed — whether we chose the product ourselves or a manufacturer asked us to assess it. The outcome stays open either way; a request buys attention, never a result.

02 / Optional after a pass

Award licence

€1 000.0012-month term

01Annual seal files for print and digital use
02Certificate and public verification record
03Commercial usage rights for the licence term

Available only after a pass. Declining the licence never changes the assessment result and never removes the public record.

01AssessmentFree · outcome open

02DecisionPass or fail

03LicenceOptional after pass

Check a product freeNo account · no fee · no obligation