The short version
Rankings are earned, not bought. No vendor can pay for placement, a higher score, or a better badge. If our recommendation could be influenced by money, it wouldn't be worth anything to you.
What we score
- Third-party COAs — batch-specific certificates of analysis from independent labs. The single biggest factor.
- Purity testing — reported purity (typically via HPLC) and identity confirmation (mass-spec).
- Sourcing & transparency — where products come from and how openly the vendor documents it.
- Reputation — real, verifiable customer feedback across independent platforms. We never fabricate ratings.
- Shipping & support — speed, reliability, and how the vendor handles problems.
Living methodology. This is a working framework and will be expanded with a full scoring rubric. Learn the most important signal yourself:
how to read a COA.