Our tracker visits every provider's public pricing page once per day and records, per plan: the advertised (introductory) price, the renewal price, the term length, and the currency. Historical points before our daily tracking began are backfilled from the Internet Archive's dated snapshots of the same pages. Every row is stored with its date and source.
Every figure on this site is the price a provider showed to an unauthenticated visitor in Pakistan, in the currency the provider itself displayed — 99% of tracked plans in USD. We check from one fixed location and we say so, because the alternative is pretending the number is universal when we have not verified that.
For most software and VPN pricing this is the same figure everyone sees: the provider quotes one global price in dollars. But some companies vary price by country. Where they do, our figure describes what that provider offers Pakistan, which may not be what it offers you. We record the observed country and currency on every single snapshot, and both fields are in the public CSV so you can check rather than take our word for it.
What this does not affect is the thing this site exists to measure. The renewal increase is a ratio — intro price against renewal price, both observed the same way on the same day. A provider that doubles its price at renewal does so in every currency. That finding survives the vantage point; the absolute dollar figure is the part to treat as one country's reading.
Scored purely on measured pricing behavior — never on commissions, features, or opinions. The score reflects the worst intro-to-renewal increase across a provider's plans:
| worst renewal increase | score |
|---|---|
| 0% — renews at the advertised price | A+ |
| up to +30% | A |
| up to +100% | B |
| up to +200% | C |
| up to +300% | D+ |
| up to +400% | D |
| over +400% | F |
| renewal price not disclosed publicly | ? (opacity) |
Articles on this site are published under the byline Rashid N, the editor. Rashid N is a pen name — a single independent operator based in Pakistan, writing under a consistent name rather than a personal one. It is one person, not a rotating team, and the same person reviews everything published here.
Our workflow is openly part-automated, and we think you should know exactly which part. Price collection is fully automated — software visits each provider's pricing page daily and records what it finds; no human types a price into this site. Analysis and drafting are AI-assisted, working from that database. Every article is read, checked against the source data, and approved by a human before publication — nothing publishes itself. Automated data pages update on their own, but they only ever restate measurements, never opinions.
What we do not do: we do not buy, install, or hands-on test these products. We do not review speed, uptime, or support quality. Every rating on this site scores one thing only — published pricing behaviour. If you ever see us imply otherwise, that is an error and we want to hear about it.
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