How this site verifies, restates, and ranks
Every editorial rule here was written before any ranking was assigned, and applies unchanged to every program — including any provider whose links may earn this site a commission. This is the page every number on the site ultimately answers to.
1 · Restatement: one unit for every price
Sellers quote in whatever unit flatters them: 4-week cycles, calendar months, quarters, prepaid years, first-month promos. We convert everything to a true month of 30.4375 days before comparing. The math is one line — price ÷ days in the billing cycle × 30.4375 — and it changes real rankings: a "$249/month" billed every 28 days is $270.62 per true month and $3,247 a year, because that cycle bills 13.04 times annually. Where a rate requires prepayment (an annual plan billed up front), we say so next to the number rather than letting it pose as a monthly price.
2 · Provenance: three tiers, never blurred
First-party means we walked the seller's own published pages on a stated date and recorded what they said, with the URL. Reported means a third-party tracker published the figure with its own check date; we cite the tracker and the date, and queue the program for first-party verification. Queued means tracked with no defensible number yet — the program appears in the roster, not in ranked tables. A Reported figure is never promoted to Verified by the passage of time, only by our own dated check. And a Verified figure ages out: past 90 days it is flagged stale in the API and drops from the verified totals until a fresh dated check restores it.
3 · Conflicts: shown, not averaged
When sources disagree — one tracker reports $179 while another reports $349–$449 for the same program — we print both with their dates and flag the row. Averaging conflicting reports manufactures a number nobody published; showing them tells the reader the one true thing we know, which is that the price is unstable or basis-dependent.
4 · Ranking rubric: five checks we can verify
Ranked and "best" pages score only structures that can be checked against a seller's own pages: the billing calendar (calendar-month beats 4-week), all-in clarity (one number covering medication, consults and shipping), the dose-ladder policy (flat at every dose beats entry-dose bait), membership fees ($0 beats stacked), and provenance (verified beats reported). We do not publish invented editorial scores — no "8.2/10" for a checkout we haven't walked — and service-quality scoring waits until we have first-party evidence to score.
4b · Verified floor vs. verified standing rate (added September 2026)
Two of the cheapest first-party-verified prices on the market are conditional: a twelve-month supply paid at once with all sales final, and a promotional month-to-month rate limited to the period stated at checkout. Sticker tables keep sorting every program by its own lowest published figure — those rows sit on top, with a structural flag computed from the row's fields (promotional rate, prepaid · all sales final, term prepaid). Every "lowest first-party-verified" sentence on the site is generated by one function and states two numbers: the verified floor with its condition, and the verified standing rate — the lowest figure that is billed monthly, with no promotion and no prepayment, medication included. The Editor's-pick bar lists the three lowest verified standing rates; the best-providers standings break ties on the five checks toward a standing rate before a conditional one, then toward the lower figure. Where a program's month-to-month rate is standing but its multi-month terms are prepaid, the month-to-month rate is its standing rate. NexLife currently holds the lowest standing rates; the code puts a verified competitor first the day one publishes a lower rate on the same terms.
5 · The commission firewall
This site may earn a commission when a reader signs up through a link to any provider it lists — stated on the ownership & funding page. A commission cannot buy a slot or a score: Editor’s Pick placements are editorial, chosen by the rubric below, which was published in advance and applies unchanged to every program.
What the status labels mean. Verified: this desk loaded the provider’s live first-party page on the date shown and captured the represented price and terms — intro versus renewal, membership, billing interval, commitment, and offer conditions where they exist. It verifies what the provider publicly represents; it does not independently validate medical, testing, or pharmacy-licensure claims, which stay labeled provider-stated until checked against regulators or documents. Reported: a third-party source or a conflicting first-party page, carried with provenance and date. Statuses moved in bulk exactly once — on the 2026-08-25 first-party verification report — and every field change is in the public change history beside the dataset.
6 · Health claims and citations
Clinical statements cite the primary source (trial name, registry, or FDA document) and are checked by a human before publication; drafts produced with AI assistance are marked internally and verified against PubMed and fda.gov before going live. We name what compounded products are — not FDA-approved, not therapeutically equivalent to brands — on every page where a price appears. We will not attach a "medically reviewed" badge to any page until a named, licensed, NPI-verifiable clinician has actually reviewed it; there is no such badge on this site today.
7 · Freshness and the change log
NexLife's six plan pages are re-read every day by the site's routine and the verified date on those rows moves only when the read succeeds; other verified rows expire after 90 days and drop from the verified totals until rechecked; money pages are otherwise re-checked on a 30-day cadence or when a reader flags a change; every check updates the visible date on the row it touched. Page dates are honest by construction: a page's published date never moves, and its modified date (and sitemap lastmod) moves only when the page's content changed — a rebuild that changes nothing is not an update. The JSON mirror of the dataset lives at /api/prices.json, regenerated with every build; a public change history (date, provider, field, old → new, source) ships alongside it. Errors are handled under the corrections policy — corrected in place, noted at the bottom of the page, never silently.
What we don't do
No availability claims without a source. No "N providers ship to your state" headlines built from scraped rosters. No fabricated reviewer identities. No averaging of conflicting prices. No use of the word "independent" to describe this site while a provider relationship exists — the honest terms are reader-supported and affiliate-supported, with the relationship disclosed.