How genburn makes money
Genburn sells advertising space. It does not sell placement in the tables.
20 paid spaces·$2,500 a month·results never for sale·every price links to its source
The spaces beside the tables are advertising
A paid space appears at the side of the page, and only when someone has bought one. Anyone can buy one, including a vendor we list, and a company we have never listed. A space carries a name, a logo and a link. That is all the money buys.
Search results are not for sale
No one can pay to appear in a table, to move up in one, or to have a competitor removed. The order comes from the numbers and from the rule printed next to them. There is no paid tier and no promoted row. A vendor who buys a space gets the space.
Where the prices come from
- read from the vendor's own pricing page, never from an article or a comparison
- published with that link and the day we read it, so you can check it yourself
- read twice by two passes that do not see each other; if they disagree, it stays out
- re-read when it moves, and corrected
Paying us changes none of it. A sponsor is read from the same page, by the same two passes, and their number lands where it lands. They correct it the way everyone does: by sending us the link.
How genburn chooses a model
Where the evidence allows it, genburn also answers which model to use for the job you described, and the page carries the label genburn says use this. That answer is a ladder: genburn steps down a rung only when the one above has nothing to say. No one can pay to be chosen, on exactly the same terms as the tables.
The eight rules, in full
Only a blind public vote counts
The evidence is a public arena where people vote without knowing which model made which result, at an address you can open. A vendor's page, an article, a signed panel: quotable, never decisive. An arena that has not measured a model is silent, and silence is never a verdict against it.
The category, not the overall table
For photorealism genburn reads the photorealism board. A model can be ahead overall and behind on the job you asked for.
A board with no date does not testify
No date means unknown age, and unknown age carries no weight. Past 60 days it has expired. Unknown age closes only with a floor: a board that ranks a model released on a known day was updated at least that day. Verifiable, not estimated.
When the margins overlap there is no first
Arenas publish a confidence interval. If the leaders' intervals touch, the measurement has declared a tie, and genburn does not break a tie on taste.
Price only breaks a tie
At equal measured quality genburn points to the cheaper one. Price never enters before the measurement, and never overrules it.
Only a model you can actually buy
With no verified sales channel genburn steps down to the first that has one, and says so. Where the channel is verified but the price has not been read twice, the page names the model and says the price is missing. It does not print a figure we cannot stand behind.
The version is part of the name
2.0 is not 2.5, and a family's video model is not its image model. A score never travels between versions, and neither does a price.
Every choice expires
Reviewed after 30 days, dropped after 60. A new model ships every month, so a two-month-old board is not a weak source, it is a wrong one. When a choice expires the page goes quiet on its own.
This is not a review and not a ranking: genburn does not generate images to judge them and does not vote. Each choice on file records which of these rules produced it. Think one is wrong? Tell us which rule, and why.
If you do not want email from us
We write to vendors to say we list them, to ask about a price, to tell them these spaces exist. Write Do not contact in the subject and we stop. One message, no reason needed, and we do not ask again. Your prices stay listed either way.