About PanelCompare
Does PanelCompare sell followers or run a panel?
Last updated by The PanelCompare editorial team
What does the site actually do?
- Reads panel catalogues over their own API and publishes per-service prices with capture dates.
- Tracks those prices over time and publishes the aggregate as an open, downloadable dataset.
- Records objectively checkable attributes — payment methods, minimum deposit, refill terms, API availability, uptime — with the date each was verified.
- Collects moderated user reviews, where only reviews with proof of purchase seen by a moderator count toward a rating.
- Publishes the ranking formula, term by term, from the code that computes it.
Why does not selling change what the site can say?
Because a seller cannot publish the answers on this hub. A panel cannot say that buying followers permanently lowers the ratio its own customers’ reach is judged on, that lifetime refill guarantees are frequently unhonoured, or that the cheapest row is a loss leader. Those statements cost a seller revenue and cost an index nothing, which is the only structural reason to expect an index to make them.
Think this answer is wrong?
Prices, refill terms and platform policies in this market all move, so an answer that was right in September may not be right in December. Every figure above names its source and the date it was checked; if one of them is stale or wrong, the correction process on the about page has a two-working-day reply target, and corrections are published with a dated note rather than quietly patched.