About Alt-subs

I don’t call myself a subscription expert — the field is too narrow for anyone to be one. But I personally stand behind every fact here: next to it you’ll find the source.

Who writes

Tomas Stankevičius. Studies in economics and advertising management taught me how a price is set and how it’s presented. At Vilnius University I’ve taken courses in human psychology totaling 300 hours — they explain why that presentation works. Online, I’ve completed courses in JavaScript, C++ and Python (about 300 hours each) and HTML (about 140 hours). I also have some hands-on experience building bots and optimizing systems, so I understand how to build systems for checking prices and information. I speak Lithuanian, English and Russian fluently and some Polish, so I read providers’ pages in those languages in the original and, when needed, check the same information in several languages. I used to trade stocks and cryptocurrencies; what’s left from that time is the habit of not believing a number until I’ve seen where it comes from.

The subscription industry makes money on inertia: on the cancellation you forget, on the cancellation hidden in another channel, on the intro price that doubles after a few months. This website exists so you can see that before you pay.

The project will keep expanding to more countries in Europe. For some tasks I bring in freelancers from time to time, and over time the team will grow with a few specialists in their fields.

How I check

I don’t take prices and facts from other comparison sites or articles — only from the provider’s official sources, and for each product they’re listed at the bottom of the page together with the check date. In practice that means four rules:

I don’t show an unconfirmed price. Better an empty spot than a number I don’t believe myself. That’s why some pages have no price for now.
I don’t convert currencies. If the provider lists 20 EUR, that isn’t “$20” — the final amount is set by your bank and its fees. Only in the subscription calculator’s total are prices in other currencies included approximately — at the ECB rate and marked with “≈”.
When official sources disagree, I show both. Sometimes the same provider’s documents contradict each other; then I go with the more cautious option and say why.
I also write about what doesn’t work. Every review has a “What we don’t claim” section — popular claims that the check didn’t confirm are collected there.

Example. On October 1, 2026, Lifesum’s official page for the Czech Republic listed 4.99 CZK per month but 499 CZK per year — so the annual plan, converted to a monthly figure (41.58 CZK), was more than eight times more expensive than the monthly one. I don’t correct a price like that based on my own guess, and I don’t hide it either: I show it as the provider publishes it, clearly note next to it what’s illogical about it, and add a dated screenshot of the provider’s page.

More detail — on the methodology page.

How the website is funded

Some of the links to providers are affiliate links: if you click them, I may earn a commission, and your price doesn’t change. The commission doesn’t decide the scores or the order — some of the products described here have no affiliate program at all, and that’s stated at the bottom of each such page. Right now only 7 of more than 80 services have an affiliate link, and I’m not actively looking for new programs, so they aren’t the main source of income; a somewhat different monetization model is planned for the future. More about that on the affiliate disclosure page, and the principles I follow when writing are in the editorial policy.

Found an error?

Write to me: tomas@alt-subs.com. I fix errors and add a new check date — how that works is described in the corrections policy. If a price has changed but the page still shows the old one, that’s an error too, and it’s worth reporting. All addresses are on the contact page.

Tomas Stankevičius · Lithuania · tomas@alt-subs.com