Rubric v4.2
How we test, score, and rank.
A review site is only worth reading if its incentives are clean. Every score on this site comes from the same kit, the same judges, and the same weights.
Weights
A headshot that does not look like you is worthless no matter how cheap it is. Realism and likeness carry half the score.
- Realism
- Does it read as a photograph.
- Likeness
- Is it still you.
- Value
- Keepers per dollar at list price.
- Variety
- Looks that actually differ.
- Speed
- Upload to download, weekday.
- Trust
- Deletion, refunds, dark patterns.
The pipeline
- Same faces, same files. Twelve volunteer faces, ages, skin tones, hair, glasses. No tool gets a cleaner input than another.
- Matched briefs. LinkedIn, creative, casual. We use each tool’s nearest presets so we compare like for like.
- Blind scoring. Branding stripped. Five judges: photographer, recruiter, dating coach, designer, civilian.
- Keeper test. Ten seconds. Recruiter glance. Keepers per dollar, not images per zip.
- Date stamp. A score is valid for the tool version we tested. Material model updates trigger a retest before the rank moves.
Money
When you use a reader code, the vendor pays us a commission and you pay less. That is the whole business. Rankings are decided before that conversation and never revisited because of one.