No magic. Just method

How the data is collected

Official sources first

Every day an agent visits each service's official pages for each country: Netflix's help center, Spotify's website, Apple's support page with iCloud+ prices, the Apple One, Apple Music and Apple TV pages and the Microsoft Store catalog (Microsoft 365 and Xbox Game Pass). It respects robots.txt, identifies itself with its own User-Agent, makes at most one request every 3 seconds per site and never signs in or solves CAPTCHAs.

App Store as a fallback

When the official website shows the price based on the visitor's IP or only after signing in (YouTube Premium, Google One, HBO Max, Paramount+, Crunchyroll, Duolingo, TIDAL, Deezer, Canva, Adobe Express, ChatGPT, Claude) or its robots.txt does not allow agents like this one (Disney+), the public in-app purchase list of each country's App Store is used. Those rows carry the “App Store” channel and the “may carry a markup” flag: they tend to cost more than the website.

Deterministic reading; the LLM only as a fallback

Prices are extracted with deterministic parsers (the page's structured data, selectors and the text next to the plan name). Only if the parser fails does a language model read the saved page, and it must quote the price text literally; the code checks that the quote exists on the page, that the currency is the country's and that the amount is plausible. The model never calculates or converts amounts, and those rows are marked “LLM”.

Validation and previous values

Amounts in another currency or outside a plausible range are discarded. A change of more than 30% stays “under review” until the next run confirms it and is not used in the comparison. If a page fails, the last confirmed value is kept for a few days (“previous value”).

Exchange rates and fee

Each currency is converted at its central bank's rate (via Frankfurter) when one is set: Colombian, Argentine and Chilean peso, Egyptian pound and naira. The rest use the European Central Bank and, as fallbacks, Frankfurter and ExchangeRate-API. If all fail, the latest available table is used and marked as outdated. Conversions are indicative: the comparison adds a currency conversion fee to every offer in a currency other than your country's.

Currency conversion fee used in the comparison: 2%.

Three risk axes

Each feasibility record assesses three axes separately. The final label is the worst axis: a high level on any of them is not offset by the other two.

• Legality

  Does it clash with any law?

  Values of the Legality axis

  Value	Level
  Lawful	0
  Contestable EU right	1
  Requires giving false information	2

• Terms of service

  Do the terms of service allow it, and is it enforced?

  Values of the Terms of service axis

  Value	Level
  Complies	0
  Breaches, no known enforcement	2
  Breaches, actively enforced	3

• Practicality

  Can it be done from Sweden?

  Values of the Practicality axis

  Value	Level
  Remotely	0
  Presence in the country once	1
  Regular presence	2
  Impossible	4

• In hand-curated records, if a step requires giving false information (for example, an address in another country), the label is at least level 2 and the legality axis says so; in records derived by the research agent, that route is “Not feasible”.
• Prices in your country of residence are always “Official” (level 0).
• Without a record, the offer stays “Not evaluated” and the comparison never picks it.
• The “EU” badge is secondary: it means a right under Regulation (EU) 2018/302 might exist, not that it is certain.
• An axis with “No data” means sourced facts are missing: the offer stays “Not evaluated”.

Labels

Feasibility research

Besides the hand-written records, an agent researches what each service requires to subscribe to another country's offer.

The agent only discovers

Every week an agent uses Google Search to find official pages, press and forums about each service's rules: account country, payment method, address, checks. It only proposes findings; nothing it says counts on its own.

Every fact needs a checked literal quote

A finding only counts if our own download of the cited page finds the literal quote. That download respects robots.txt and never tries to get around a block, a sign-in or a CAPTCHA: if the page cannot be read, the fact does not count. Forums never count, and the press only counts for restrictions.

Shared facts, per-profile verdicts

Facts do not depend on who is buying; the verdict does. A deterministic evaluator crosses the facts with what each profile can honestly prove and works out the three axes. If a fact is missing, the axis stays “No data” and the offer “Not evaluated”.

Hand-curated wins

If there is a hand-written record for a service, a country and a profile, that one is used instead of the agent's.

Human review

New findings show as “Pending review” until a person accepts them. Meanwhile, the comparison already takes them into account and marks the offers that depend on them; on the records they appear with their badge and their quotes.

Never false information

In records derived by the agent, a route that would require declaring something false, such as an address or a country that is not yours, shows as “Not feasible”. Hand-curated records mark that step and their legality axis says “Requires giving false information”. The site never suggests using a VPN or giving false information.

Latest published research: Oct 19, 2026 (run 2026-10-19-r4bc019).

Profiles

Each profile describes what a person can honestly prove: residence, documents, phone, address, payment methods and travel. Every page (comparison, services, countries, bundles) shows prices and risks for your profile. On arrival we start from your country, with no ties: your browser asks country.is for your IP address's country (country.is receives the IP; we store nothing); if it doesn't answer, we work it out from your browser's time zone or language. Then you describe your profile in the comparison (country of residence among those with prices, what you have from it, and ties with any other country); we keep it only in your browser (local storage, never sent and not a cookie) so the other pages can use it. Without JavaScript, pages show the sample profile below. The comparison also shows the accounts you could open online with that residence and those documents, according to our curated data. For your own profile, the labels come from applying the same rules to the researched facts; hand-curated records only apply to the profile they were written for.

• Resident in Sweden with Colombian citizenship Default
  Vive en Suecia (residencia estable), ciudadano colombiano con cédula y tarjeta de crédito emitida en Colombia. Viaja a Colombia de vez en cuando.
• Resident in Sweden with no ties to other countries
  Vive en Suecia, con documentos, teléfono y dirección solo suecos y sin tarjetas extranjeras. Puede abrir en línea cuentas de bancos del EEE.

Not legal advice: it describes what we found in public sources, not what you should do.

Bundles

A bundle brings several subscriptions together for one price, often with a phone plan or a store subscription. Their prices, services and conditions change without notice, so they are published more cautiously than daily prices.

One single source for values

Each bundle's values (price, introductory price, base plan, minimum term, included services, dates and requirements) come only from a hand-curated file. No automated process changes it: automation can only bring evidence about those values or propose changes, and a person reviews them.

What counts as confirmed

A value only shows as confirmed if our own download found its literal quote, the “anchor”, on the official page or official PDF in the bundle's country 15 days ago or less. If the source is a PDF price list with editions, only the current edition counts. A blocked, unreadable or other-country page confirms nothing. If something is missing, the value shows as “unconfirmed” and the bundle says why.

Checked by hand

A person can check the bundle by hand; the date of that check is recorded. It shows as “Checked by hand”, with the days elapsed, expires after 45 days and never counts as an official source.

Saving without embellishment

The saving compares the bundle's regular price with the sum of the included services bought separately in the same country, each at its cheapest price, so it is never exaggerated. It leaves out introductory prices, discounts and free months. Discounts and free months are shown separately; an introductory price, only when the bundle is verified. When the bundle requires a base plan, such as a mobile line, the saving is calculated on the marginal price, that is, the bundle's price minus the base plan's, and the record says so.

Currency conversion fee

If the bundle is paid in a currency other than your country's, the record also shows the price with the card's currency conversion fee (2%). The saving percentage leaves it out, because it compares prices within the same country.

One verdict per profile

Each public profile gets its verdict, with the same axes and labels as the feasibility records. If there is a hand-curated record for the bundle and the profile, it is the starting point, and the requirements and included services can only make it worse; it is always shown as unverified and with low confidence, because no quote from the terms confirms it in our reading of the pages. If the bundle is from the country of residence, it is your country's official offer, unless it requires something the profile does not have. Otherwise, the verdict is composed from the bundle's requirements and the verdict, in that country, of each included service; if its price is that of a service we already track, such as Apple One, that service's verdict counts. For the other bundles their own terms count too: if we do not find a rule about the country of residence in them, the “Terms of service” axis stays “No data”, and their allowing a subscription from another country only counts with an official quote. The worst wins, and the bundle's level is never lower than that of its included services.

Requirements are stated as facts

If the bundle requires something the profile does not have, such as an ID document, a phone line or a card from the country, the verdict says so plainly and that route is “Not feasible”. When the verdict is composed from the bundle's own terms and requirements, a requirement with no data shows as an assumption and never improves the verdict. A requirement the bundle's terms state counts as soon as a person reviews that finding, and one that makes subscribing easier only with an official quote; a requirement from the curated data is never relaxed. If it starts from a curated record, from your country's offer or from the verdict of a service we already track, only the known requirements count.

Never false information

In composed verdicts, a route that would require declaring something untrue, such as a residence or a billing address that is not yours, is “Not feasible”. In a hand-curated record, that step is marked, the legality axis says so and the level is at least 2. If an included service's curated record has such a step, the bundle inherits that step, its reason and, at least, its level. The site never suggests using a VPN, another address or false information.

Not legal advice: the verdicts describe what we found in public sources and what each profile can honestly prove, not what you should do.

Watched bundles

Every published bundle, including the ones that are not watched: its official source, how it is checked, its status, its last automatic check and how many of its anchors have been verified. A dash (—) means there is none yet.

Five risky assumptions

Common mistakes when reasoning about other countries' prices:

1. A foreign card does not make you a foreign customer. Paying with a card from another country does not make you a resident of that country. Most services tie the account to the country where you live or where you signed up, not to the bank that issued the card.
2. No known checks does not mean it is safe. “No known enforcement” only describes what we found in public sources. A service can start checking the country, cancel the subscription or block the account at any time.
3. The EU right only covers cloud-type services and is untested. Regulation (EU) 2018/302 excludes audiovisual services and, in practice, music and copyrighted content. For cloud-type services such as iCloud+ or Google One it might apply, but the price would be the other country's net price plus Sweden VAT, and no court has confirmed it.
4. Prices and account checks change. Prices go up, plans get renamed and country checks get stricter. Check the date of each price and the feasibility record before deciding.
5. Switching is not always reversible. Changing the country of an Apple, Google or Microsoft account affects the whole store, can make you lose balance, purchases or your family group, and some changes are only allowed once a year.

Coverage

Status of each source in the latest run (Oct 21, 2026). “Failing since” shows since when a source has not returned prices.