Trust & methodology

How Studely scores offers

Anyone can paste a list of links. Ours are ranked by a score you can see the reasoning for — not a gut feeling.

1. Eligibility, spelled out

Every offer shows exactly who can use it and how to prove you’re a student — a .edu email, SheerID, ISIC, or the provider’s own student program. If the eligibility path isn’t clear, it isn’t listed.

2. The Studely score

Each offer gets a score from 1 to 10, built from fixed, named criteria across three axes: what you get, how hard it is to claim, and how long it lasts. Every offer starts at a neutral 5; each named reason adds or subtracts a small amount, and the result is clamped to 1–10.

The point of this is honesty: on every offer’s page we show the full breakdown — “full paid tier, free +2”, “no card required +1”, “credit expires −1” — so the ranking is explainable, and you can disagree with a specific reason rather than a mystery number.

3. Link checks

A weekly job re-fetches every offer link; anything it cannot reach is reviewed by hand. That is a backstop against rot, not a guarantee: we don’t claim an offer is live at the moment you click it, and a provider that blocks automated requests will always need a human to look.

4. Honesty about money

Studely earns nothing today: no offer here is an affiliate link and no advertising is running. We intend to add both, and will say so plainly here and on the offer itself when we do. Payment will never buy a better score.

There are no sponsored placements on Studely today. If one ever runs it will carry a Sponsored label on the offer itself, and it will still be scored by the same criteria as everything else — payment can buy a position, never a point.

Found something wrong?

Offers change fast. If a deal is dead or the terms moved, tell us and we’ll review it. Always confirm current terms on the provider’s own site before relying on an offer.