# How we compare

**Canonical HTML page:** https://trtbuyerguide.com/how-we-compare
**Markdown endpoint:** https://trtbuyerguide.com/how-we-compare.md
**Edition check date:** 2026-10-23 (late re-checks 2026-10-26)
**Publisher:** Open Water RX LLC

## What is measured

Every company in this edition is recorded on eight fields, read from a dated provider page: charge as billed, billing interval, derived monthly equivalent, membership or separate fee, first payment, commitment, domain status, and the evidence with its check date.

The full definition of each field lives at https://trtbuyerguide.com/criteria.

## Publisher scores and commercial ranking

The publisher chooses each score from 0 to 100 and each position by hand. Compensation, advertising relationships and publisher ownership may influence both. A score is a promotional judgment, not a calculated measure of price, completeness, clinical quality or value. Changes to factual prices do not automatically change a score or position.

Paid placement is labeled "Sponsored" beside the score and position. Paid outbound links carry sponsored and nofollow qualifications. The dated factual records, cost arithmetic and research studies remain separate from commercial ranking decisions. One paid placement is active in this edition and is labelled wherever it appears.

## The arithmetic

Monthly equivalent = the charge as billed divided by the number of months its billing interval covers.

- A calendar-month charge is the monthly figure.
- A fixed-day charge is annualised over 365.25 days and divided by 12. Nothing is defaulted to 28 or 70 days.
- A quarterly charge is multiplied by four and divided by twelve.
- A charge with no stated interval produces **no** monthly figure. Titan's $159 per 30-day supply sits in that position: a supply period is not a billing period.
- A membership fee is added as its own recorded field, never blended silently into the medication charge.
- A required fee that cannot be priced makes the all-in figure unavailable rather than understated. Seven records are in that position, so their plan price is published alone.
- A missing field is recorded as not established, never zero.

Published arithmetic fixtures, with their expected outputs, are at https://trtbuyerguide.com/research/program-costs.

## What is deliberately excluded

- A prepaid multi-month discount treated as a monthly rate. It is recorded as a note; the standing rate is the figure used.
- A first-month discount, start-now promotion or half-price introductory month.
- A manufacturer list price used as a program price.
- A company-wide subscriber count read as a number of testosterone patients.
- A traffic figure presented as a testosterone-specific audience.
- An estimated price, an invented average, or the midpoint of a published range.
- A cached or search-engine price used in place of a live provider page.

## Conflict handling

Where two provider pages disagree, the disagreement is published rather than resolved quietly. Male Excel's coverage claims four different figures across four of its own pages; that is recorded as a disagreement, and no state list is built from it. An unresolved claim remains unverified, regardless of the program's commercial score or position.

## Where the published files come from

The seven price-bearing exports are generated from the same records the HTML pages read, with each record's own check date. Policy files are checked separately. The generator command, parity checks and emitted-file comparison are documented at https://trtbuyerguide.com/datasets. Generation is an explicit release step on this host; the comparison must pass before publishing.

## Funding and ownership

Paid positions, featured listings, sponsorships and contracted referral opportunities are offered. Compensation may influence publisher scores and positions, but cannot change a sourced charge, billing cadence or check date. The publisher is Open Water RX LLC; current relationships and funding disclosures are at https://trtbuyerguide.com/disclosures. A paid entry is labeled where it appears.

## Corrections

Every change is dated and the previous value is kept. The log is at https://trtbuyerguide.com/corrections.