For makers

Get listed. Or get on the list.

One payment, no subscription, no renewal. A listing puts your product on Launch500. A place on the Launch500 list cannot be bought: a passed Crash Test gets a product considered, and the February editorial decides.

On the platform

A listing: free, or £49 to be featured

A product page buyers can find, recommend and click through from. Live the moment you prove your domain. The £49 Listing adds a fortnight in the Featured spots, labelled Sponsored.

On the list

Launch500 2026: earned, never bought

A passed Crash Test is the entry barrier. Pass, and you are considered for the editorial published in February 2027, which weighs the test with reviews, customer feedback and our engineers’ view of how useful the product is. Passing is not a place.

How the list is chosen

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Converted prices use rates of 29 Sept 2026.

We bill in pounds. Everything on this site is stored and charged in GBP.

Free listing

A product page on Launch500, live as soon as you prove the domain is yours.

£0once

Live at once when you sign in with an address at its domain, or when your DNS record is found

Backlink

A nofollow link: readers can click through, and search engines pass no credit.

A product page: name, category, one line and a link, checked automatically
Claimed by your Garage from the start, because you proved the domain
Crew members can recommend it, counted in public
A nofollow link to your site

Arrives later, at no extra cost

Reviews from Crew members, and your public reply to each, when reviews open

Does not buy

A place on the Launch500 list. A listing puts you on the platform, never on the list.
Featured placement on the homepage or in your category
A Crash Test, a score or a verdict
Never a followed link, free or paid

List for free

Listing

Your listing, featured for a fortnight on the homepage and in your category.

£49once

Upgraded the moment payment completes

Backlink

Marked rel="sponsored", because you paid for the listing. Search engines require that of every paid link.

Fourteen days in the Featured spots on the homepage and in your category, labelled Sponsored
A Listing badge on your product page
A link to your site, marked sponsored as search engines require of paid links
Everything in the free listing

Does not buy

A place on the Launch500 list, or a step towards one. Only a passed Crash Test gets a product considered.
A Crash Test, a score or a verdict
A review, a rating, or any influence on one
A followed link: never included. Every link a payment touched is marked sponsored.

List, then upgrade for £49

The way onto the Launch500 list

Crash Test

The entry barrier to the Launch500 list. A named tester puts you on the bench, and we publish what happens.

£1,450once

By enquiry: we agree a test date with you before you pay

Backlink

Links from your report and hub entry to your site are marked rel="sponsored", because you paid for the test.

The full scenario set for your category, run by a named tester on a dated version
A published report with weighted sub-scores, every failure numbered, and the evidence
Pass, and you are considered for the Launch500 list published each February
A verdict badge you may embed, whichever verdict you get
Your data in the comparison table, capability matrix and category hub
A free re-test whenever you tell us what you changed
Everything in the free listing

Does not buy

A place on the Launch500 list. Passing makes you eligible; the February editorial decides.
The result. You are buying the engineer's time, not the verdict.
Advance sight of the report, or a right of reply before publication
Removal of a failure, a low score, or the report itself
A refund if you do not like the outcome

Ask about a Crash Test

Article

Publish a piece in the blog, after our editors clear it.

£89once

Editorial decision within 5 working days

Backlink

One link in the author bio, marked rel="sponsored". Body links to your own product are removed.

A post in the blog, permanently, under your own byline and bio
One link to your site in the author bio, marked sponsored
Labelled 'Contributed' with your company named at the top
Editorial notes if we ask for changes, usually one round

Does not buy

Guaranteed publication. We decline pieces that do not clear review.
Links inside the body text to your own product
Anything that reads as a press release or a feature announcement
A place on the Launch500 list, or any influence on a Crash Test or a score

Submit an article

Before you book a Crash Test

You are buying the test. You are not buying the result.

This is how audit and certification bodies have always worked, and it is the only version of a paid review that is worth anything to the buyer reading it. If paying could move the number, the number would stop meaning anything, and then nobody would want the badge you just bought.

The report publishes whatever it says, including “Did not pass”.
A pass makes you eligible for the Launch500 list. It does not guarantee a place.
The fee is non-refundable regardless of the verdict.
The rubric and weights are published before you pay and do not change because you paid.
Every commissioned test is labelled vendor-commissioned, permanently.
No advance sight of the report and no right of reply before it goes live.

Side by side

Which one you want

What you get	Free · £0	Listing · £49	Crash Test · £1,450	Article · £89
Product page	Yes	Yes	Yes	A post
Featured for 14 days, labelled Sponsored	No	Yes	No	No
Badge	No	Listing badge	Verdict badge, whatever the verdict	No
Your link	Nofollow	Sponsored	Sponsored	Sponsored, in the bio
Published Crash Test report	No	No	Yes, whatever it says	No
Considered for the Launch500 list	No	No	If you pass	No
Public reply to reviews	When reviews open	When reviews open	When reviews open	No
Refundable	n/a	No	No	Yes, if we decline it

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