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Coverage is still narrow. Live prices have been read from 1 of 129 panels (2,182 services). The rest are listed because they are real, reachable operators — not because we have seen their rates. Panels with no synced catalogue show no prices rather than an estimate. How the data is gathered.

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Clone panel

clone paircommon ownership

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Why does clone panel matter to a buyer?

Clone pairs defeat the main defence buyers have against exit risk, which is spreading balances across independent operators. Two storefronts sharing an operator share an outage, a provider collapse and an exit, so a buyer who split funds between them has diversified nothing.

The pattern is documented in this market. Two indexed panels were found sharing near-identical marketing copy and an identical nine-market targeting list, and two others share a named operating company (PanelCompare domain research, 2026-09-06). Presenting such pairs as independent options is a real failure of a directory, not a technicality.

How does clone panel show up in a price list?

The catalogue rarely shows it, but the site does: shared marketing copy, identical asset and favicon hashes, the same payment endpoints, the same registrant details, and identical unusual choices such as a matching list of targeted markets.

PanelCompare treats detected common ownership as a disclosure obligation rather than a ranking penalty — the panels may both be fine; what is not fine is a buyer believing they are unrelated.

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Terminology in this market is set by the panels that use it, and it moves. If a panel uses clone panel to mean something other than what is written here, send us the listing and we will either correct the definition or record the variant. The process is on the about page.