How ranking & fees work
Marketplace transparency, published up front (P2B-style, voluntarily).
Ranking
The Explorer sorts by: free datasets first, then most recently published. Search matches title, subtitle, description and tags — plain keyword matching, no paid placement, no boosting. Filters do exactly what they say. When a semantic search ships, this page will document how it ranks.
Marketplace fees (provider side)
| Situation | Fee on the sale |
|---|---|
| Founding providers (first 12 months from registration) | 0% |
| Buyer found you through the marketplace | 10% |
| Buyer you brought via your referral link (their first touch) | 5% |
Attribution is first-touch and recorded at account creation — it can't be re-labelled later, and a provider can't attribute their own account or a same-company account to the referred rate. Stripe's own processing fees are separate and belong to the provider as merchant of record. Buyers pay the listed price; there are no buyer-side fees.
Subscriptions: the fee rate is set when the subscription starts and applies for its lifetime. A subscription begun during a provider's founding (0%) window keeps 0% for as long as it runs — founding subscribers are grandfathered.
Reviews & scorecards
Quality scorecards are computed automatically from the actual data file (completeness, duplicates, row counts) — providers cannot edit them. Buyer reviews ship in a later release, verified-purchase only.
Roadmap (honest version)
- Live now: marketplace, free reference data, workbench (charts, saved reports, CSV/PNG export).
- Next: Pro/Business plans (scheduled exports, XLSX, teams, API keys), verified-buyer reviews, richer scorecards.
- Later: the Modeler — blend datasets across providers and export with license terms carried through — plus semantic search.
Changes
Material changes to fees, ranking or terms are announced by email with 15 days' notice.