Differences between free and paying version ?

Li Ann,

At 200 to 300 PVs per day, you fit comfortably under 10,000 PVs a month. (That’s 6000 to 9000 PVs.)

The description very clearly says this is a premium plugin. No user is charged without a 3-week free, full featured trial. No credit card is required for the free trial. That includes images being hosted and served from a premium CDN, as well as detailed daily, weekly and monthly statistics.

I think it’s very unfair you are leaving a one-star review for a plugin you have never even installed or used.

Sincerely,

Ryan Singel
Founder
Contextly

You are right, I put two stars because the plugin works but I don’t want to promote such related posts plugin.

Li-An,

Unless you registered with a site other than the one in your profile, I don’t even see how you can judge if the plugin works.

No one is asking you to promote it.

We provide the most powerful and customizable related posts plugin for WordPress. We don’t slow sites down because all the hard work is done on our servers and database. We respect readers’ privacy.

We provide a free tier of service for smaller blogs and charge a reasonable amount for larger sites and businesses.

There are many free related posts plugins that slow down sites because they use the WordPress database, not external servers.

Feel free to rate those highly, but I don’t see how you can even rate our plugin and service without even using it.

Sincerely,

Ryan Singel
Founder

Sorry, it’s impossible for me to test this kind of plugins: your money value depends highly on the number of people using your plugin. Using it is giving for your company the benefice of my work and it’s the main reason I am not fond of this kind of plugin.

Li-An,

I think you don’t understand how our service works. We don’t gain anything from sites like yours using our plugin. It costs us money, but we want to help independent publishers so we offer a generous free tier. We make our money charging large publications and businesses.

We don’t sell any site’s data. We don’t sell data about readers. All of the recommendations we make on your site are to your site. This is clearly laid out in our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

Any company like ours that DOESN’T charge has to make money some other way. That’s either selling the data or inserting ads. We don’t do either.

As I said, before, why don’t you try out the plugin and evaluate it on its merits. I suspect you will quite like it and you fit very comfortably in our free tier.

You’ve used many plugins and we’d love to hear what you think about us AFTER you’ve tried it out.

Sincerely,

RS