QuantOracle

Affiliate Disclosure & How We Make Money

The page that exists because the FTC says it should, written so it's actually useful. Here's exactly how QuantOracle makes money and what that means for you as a user.

Last updated: May 14, 2026

The short version

QuantOracle is free to use. You don't pay anything for the 15 calculators on this site, the 1,000 free API calls per IP per day, the open-source integrations (LangChain, AgentKit, MCP), or any of the documentation. We'd like to keep it that way.

To do that, we have three revenue sources:

  1. TradingView affiliate links — we earn a commission if you sign up for TradingView Pro through a link on our site. Doesn't cost you anything extra.
  2. x402 micropayments on paid API endpoints — agents and automated systems that exceed the free tier pay per call in USDC. Humans don't pay; only programmatic high-volume users do.
  3. Display ads — not currently active. May add Google AdSense in the future to support the calculator content. If we do, we'll mark them clearly.

That's the whole picture. No data sales, no email lists for rent, no upsell to a secret premium tier.

TradingView affiliate program (active)

We're a member of the TradingView affiliate program. If you click a sponsored TradingView link on this site and subsequently sign up for a TradingView paid plan, TradingView pays us a commission — usually a percentage of your first-year subscription.

What this means for you:

  • The price you pay for TradingView is exactly the same whether you click our link or go directly.
  • You don't share any extra data with us by clicking the link — it's a standard affiliate parameter (aff_id=166298) that TradingView uses to track the referral.
  • We earn nothing if you don't convert to a paid plan. The link is just a tracking parameter.

Where you'll see these links:

  • The Sponsored CTA card at the bottom of every calculator page
  • The Sponsored CTA card at the bottom of comparison articles (/compare)
  • Always clearly labeled with a Sponsored badge and tagged with the appropriate rel="sponsored nofollow noopener" attributes (HTML standards-compliant disclosure)

Why TradingView specifically? Because it's the chart platform most of our audience actually uses. We don't promote tools we wouldn't personally use, and the affiliate fits all our user categories — options traders, crypto traders, equity quants, and general chartists. We may add other affiliate partners in the future (e.g., Coinbase, IBKR) if they fit the audience as cleanly.

x402 micropayments on the API (active)

QuantOracle's API at api.quantoracle.dev uses the x402 protocol for paid endpoints. This is a programmatic revenue source aimed at AI agents and automated systems, not humans. Specifics at /pricing.

Who pays:

  • Free tier (everyone): 1,000 API calls per IP per day, all 63 calculator endpoints. No payment ever required. This covers all human use of the calculators and most agent use.
  • Paid tier (high-volume agents): When an IP exceeds 1,000/day, individual calls are priced $0.002–$0.10 USDC. Payment settles via x402 on Base or Solana mainnets through the calling wallet — no API key, no account, no signup.
  • Paid composites (anyone using them): 10 multi-step endpoints (e.g. risk/full-analysis, hedging/recommend) are priced at $0.04–$0.10 USDC each. These bundle 5-15 underlying calculations and are designed for agent workflows.

All x402 settlements are on-chain and publicly visible. We publish aggregate settlement data at api.quantoracle.dev/metrics.

Display ads (not currently active)

We are considering adding Google AdSense or a similar display-ad network to help offset the cost of the free calculators. As of May 14, 2026, no display ads are running.

If/when we add display ads, we'll:

  • Mark ad slots clearly so you can distinguish them from editorial content
  • Keep ad density low — we'd rather under-monetize than make the site annoying
  • Disclose the addition in our commit history and update this page
  • Not add interstitials, pop-ups, autoplay video, or anything else that degrades the calculator experience

What we'll never do

  • Sell user data. We don't collect personal data to begin with — calculator inputs are processed and discarded, no accounts, no email collection.
  • Rent email lists. We don't have an email list.
  • Add affiliate parameters to outbound links that aren't marked Sponsored. If a link on this site isn't clearly labeled, it's editorial — we get no commission either way.
  • Promote tools we don't personally use. The affiliate has to pass the "would we recommend this anyway" test before it goes on the site.
  • Hide the disclosure. This page is linked from every Sponsored CTA, listed in the sitemap, and submitted to search engines. It's meant to be findable.

FTC / regulatory context

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission requires affiliate relationships to be clearly disclosed when content reasonably appears editorial. Our setup:

  • Every TradingView affiliate link is rendered inside a card with a visible Sponsored badge.
  • The HTML rel attribute on each affiliate link includes sponsored nofollow noopener — the standard machine-readable disclosure (per Google's guidance).
  • Disclosure text appears in the same card as the link ("QuantOracle earns a commission if you sign up via this link. Doesn't cost you extra.").
  • This page exists as the comprehensive disclosure, linked from every affiliate CTA and listed in our sitemap.

If you find any affiliate link on this site that isn't properly disclosed, please file an issue and we'll fix it the same day.

How you can support QuantOracle (without paying)

If you find the site useful and want to support it without spending money:

  • Use the calculators. Engagement signals (time on page, multiple pages visited) help our SEO, which brings more users.
  • Star the GitHub repo at github.com/QuantOracledev/quantoracle. GitHub stars factor into discoverability across the ecosystem (npm, MCP registries, awesome-lists).
  • Share specific posts. The comparison articles and long-form writing rank better when they get linked from other sites, social posts, or community recommendations.
  • Tell us when something's wrong. GitHub Issues is the fastest way to reach us.

If you want to pay, the most direct way is to use one of our paid composite API endpoints (see /pricing) or sign up for TradingView Pro through one of the Sponsored links if you were going to do that anyway.

Changes to this page

We update this page whenever our monetization changes. The change history is visible in our git commit log for this file. The page itself shows the "Last updated" date at the top.

If we ever materially change the revenue model (e.g., add a subscription tier, sell data, change the free tier limits), it'll be reflected here first and announced via the RSS feed.

Contact

Questions about anything on this page: open an issue on GitHub. We're responsive there.