Independent product rankings
Best means best.Not the highest bidder.
We rank financial products against published criteria, and the order is built around what's right for you, not who pays us the most.
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What "the actual best" means
What’s best for you based on transparent assessment criteria. No issuer can pay for position on our site.
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Best for you
Best on average doesn’t mean best for you
The same two savings accounts change ranking depending on how much you deposit. The same two lenders change ranking depending on your credit file and how long you want to borrow. A single published order cannot be right for every unique scenario.
So we ask. A balance, an amount, a term. We collect the facts that change the answer, and never more than we need.
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Real rates
A headline rate is just a starting point
Until we know something about you, a list has to be ordered on published rates. The best headline rate goes to a thin slice of applicants with excellent credit, and without more information it’s impossible to know if that’s the rate you would be approved for.
So the moment you tell us more, the list is rebuilt. For loans, that means a prequalification with real lenders, on a soft credit check (with no impact to your credit score), and the numbers that come back are personalized for you.
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Nobody buys a position
Payment never moves the order
The order comes from the criteria printed on the page and from figures anyone can check. It is produced before any commercial arrangement exists, and no provider can pay to move up, be featured, or push another product down.
If the order ever changes, it is because the offers themselves changed.
Worked example
When 4% APY is worth less than 3.5%
Savings Account A advertises the higher yield. Savings Account B pays the lower one. Which account earns you more is decided entirely by how much you put in it. Move the balance and watch them change places.
They swap places at $6,667. Below that the capped 4% pays more. Above it, the flat 3.5% does.
Savings Account A
Pays more4.00% APY, but only on the first $5,000. Every dollar above that earns 2.00%.
$500
A year in interestAn effective 2.50% on your balance
Savings Account B
Pays more3.50% APY, on every dollar, with no cap and no condition.
$700
A year in interestAn effective 3.50% on your balance
At $20,000, Savings Account B pays $200 more a year, from the lower headline rate. At $20,000, Savings Account A pays $200 more a year, because your whole balance sits inside its cap. At $20,000, the two accounts pay the same. This is the balance where the answer changes hands.
This is the whole argument. A ranking that publishes a single order has to choose between these two accounts, and whichever it chooses is wrong for a portion of the people reading it. We would rather ask you for your deposit amount and provide a personalized (and more correct) recommendation.
Every ranking says how it was ordered
Before we rank anything, we write down the rule that decides the order, which we print on the page the ranking appears on. The logic is different for each category, because what decides a savings account is not what decides a loan.
Every figure we publish carries the date it was last checked.
Read the full method →Ordered by what each account pays on your returns after fees, then by how many conditions the rate carries, then by how it is rated by the people holding it.
Figures last checked September 1, 2026. The loans page carries its own rule, built around the APR a lender actually delivers, the origination fee, and approval odds for your file.
Frequently asked questions
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Will checking my rate hurt my credit score?
No. Prequalification is a soft credit check and does not affect your score. Only a formal application, with the one lender you choose, is a hard inquiry which may impact your credit score.
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What do you do with my information?
We use it to rank products for you, and to run a prequalification with the lenders you ask us to check. We do not sell it on as a lead to anybody you did not ask for.
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Do I have to give you anything to use the site?
No. Every page works without it, and the calculators run in your browser. You get a sharper answer if you tell us more, and that is the only reason we ask.
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Will I get the rate you show?
The published figures are the provider's own. What you are offered depends on your profile, which is why we prequalify as soon as you give us enough to do it.
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What happens when I click through to a provider?
You land on the provider's own site and apply there. We are not a lender or a bank, we never see your application, and nothing on this site runs a credit check by itself.
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Why isn't my bank on your list?
Either it did not do well against the rule printed on that page, or we have not scored it yet. The list is what we have checked, and may not be comprehensive.
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How often are the figures checked?
Every figure carries the date it was last checked, on the page showing it. Rates move, and a number without a date is not trustworthy.
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How do you make money?
We get a commission when you take a product through a link here. What we get paid will never impact our product ratings.
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Each page opens with the ranking, the rule that produced it, and the one input that reorders it for you.
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