Sponsor CostBench
The software-pricing reference people — and AI assistants — check before they buy.
What you can buy
One labeled placement on a category's comparison pages
A single Promoted card for your product, shown beside — never inside — the rankings on the category pages where buyers compare options. It sits in its own panel, carries an FTC disclosure, is styled so it can't be mistaken for editorial, and loads after the page does, so it never enters the crawled HTML or the machine-readable record AI assistants read. One sponsor per category at a time.
InquireWe only sell categories that clear the floor
A category is sellable only when it has at least 50 verified outbound clicks in the trailing 30 days. Verified means the click fired in a real browser; we don't count server-side redirects, which on our own logs run more than a hundred times higher and are almost entirely bots.
Below that floor we can't honestly promise anyone will see you, so we don't sell it — there's a waitlist instead. As of 28 July 2026, 9 of our 260 trafficked categories qualify. That is the real number, and it's small on purpose.
Ask us and we'll tell you your category's actual numbers — 30-day comparison pageviews and verified clicks, whatever they are. If you don't qualify, we'll say so plainly rather than sell you something, and we'll flag you when that changes.
Sponsorship buys clearly-labeled placement in front of our audience. It never changes our pricing data, rankings, methodology, or willingness to correct an error — and sponsored placements never appear in the machine-readable record that AI assistants read.
Contact
partnerships@costbench.com — this address routes to a monitored desk.