Head to head

19 platforms carry a score, counting each white-label family once, and that makes 171 possible pairings. Publishing all 171 off one dataset would mean 82 pages with two rows on them and four apologies, which is thin content by construction rather than by accident.

So a pairing is published only where both files record at least 4 of the 6 fields this site compares on: free chat, kinds of show, ways to pay, how you are billed, the top-up ladder, and the private rate. And at least one of those rows has to be won on a recorded figure: a table where every row comes out level decides nothing, and 8 pairings that record enough are left out for that alone. 89 pairings clear both today. It is a rule rather than a list, so a comparison starts existing the day the dataset can support it and stops the day a figure is withdrawn.

The private rate is the hard one. A per-minute figure is a bare number whose meaning is in the unit beside it — 24 of the 171 pairings record their rate in the same unit at all, and 16 of the 89 published pages carry a price row as a result. On the rest, comparing the two numbers would be comparing tokens with credits and printing the answer as a price. Those pages say so instead.

Some of these brands are one catalogue of rooms under two mastheads. A comparison between two of them would print differences in price, features and payment methods between a site and itself, so they are not in the list above — but they are the pairings people type, and each one has a page saying what was tested and how.

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