Editorial Policy

This page explains how content on InternetProviders.ai gets made, who pays for it, and what standards it has to meet. If we ever fall short of this policy, we want to hear about it — see our corrections policy.

Editorial Independence

• No pay-for-placement: internet providers cannot pay for higher rankings, favorable reviews, or preferred placement anywhere on the site.
• No sponsored editorial: providers do not write, commission, or pre-approve our content.
• Ratings follow the rubric: provider scores come from the published weighted criteria in our review methodology, not from commercial relationships.

How We Make Money

InternetProviders.ai is free to use. We earn revenue through affiliate partnerships: when you sign up for internet service through some links on the site, the provider or an affiliate network may pay us a commission. This is how we keep the site free.

• Affiliate relationships never change a provider's rating or position in a comparison.
• We work with affiliate partners for some — not all — providers we cover, and we cover providers we have no commercial relationship with.
• Pages that contain affiliate links carry a disclosure.

Where Our Information Comes From

• Availability data: the FCC Broadband Data Collection (BDC) — provider-filed, FCC-published records of where service is offered.
• Pricing and plans: publicly available pricing collected from provider websites. Promotional prices change frequently, so we treat provider websites as the source of truth and review pricing on a recurring basis.
• Editorial analysis: our own comparison of the above. We do not run a physical test lab; where we cite speed or reliability figures, they come from the named data source on the page.

How We Use Automation and AI

We are transparent about this: InternetProviders.ai covers thousands of cities and ZIP codes, and those location pages are produced programmatically from FCC BDC and provider plan data using templates our team designs. We also use AI tooling to help draft and maintain content at that scale.

• The facts on data-driven pages — which providers serve an area, technologies, and speed tiers — come from FCC and provider data, not from an AI model's memory.
• The team owns the templates, rating rubric, and editorial pages, and is accountable for everything published, however it was drafted.
• When we find an error — human or machine — we correct it under our corrections policy and log significant fixes publicly.

Standards Every Page Must Meet

• Claims about availability, speeds, and prices must be traceable to FCC data or a provider's published materials.
• Promotional pricing is labeled as promotional where we know it; prices should always be confirmed with the provider before ordering.
• Dated content shows when it was last updated.
• Recommendations must say why — the criteria behind a pick are stated, not implied.

Accountability

Editorial responsibility for this site rests with our co-founders — see who does what. Found something that doesn't meet this policy? Report it via our contact page and we'll investigate per our corrections policy.