Kratom Vendor Reviews, Scored on Published Criteria
Six criteria, scored 0 to 5, applied the same way to everyone: range, pricing, shipping, payments, site experience, and how much they publish about testing. A person enters those numbers, not a model. Where we hold certificates, we also work out what a gram of mitragynine costs at each vendor, which is a different question from what a gram of powder costs.
Vendors we have assessed
Assessments are in progress — check back shortly.
How a review gets made
Each assessment starts by reading the shop rather than reading about it. We crawl their own pages, pull their catalogue straight off their store platform so the product counts and prices are exact rather than eyeballed, and record every certificate of analysis we can find with its batch, its date, its laboratory and which contaminant panels it covers.
Only then does anyone score anything. Six criteria, the same six every time, entered by hand by the editor whose name goes on the page. Testing disclosure carries the most weight, not because it proves the product is good, but because it is the one thing a buyer can independently check before paying. Where a page changes materially afterwards, the change is dated and logged where you can see it, and the vendor gets a reply section we publish unedited.
Questions about the reviews
Is a model writing these scores?
No. Drafting is assisted; scoring is not. The six numbers are typed by the editor named at the top of the page, against criteria published in our process, and that person is who you should hold responsible for them.
Can a vendor pay for a better score?
There is nothing to buy. Commissions are disclosed wherever they exist and they change nothing about the six sub-scores, because those are applied identically whether an affiliate arrangement exists or not.
Why does lab testing count for so much?
Because it is the only quality signal a buyer can verify without ordering first. A shop publishing batch-specific certificates from a named, accredited laboratory has handed you the means to check them. A shop publishing nothing is asking for trust it has not evidenced.
What happens if we think you got something wrong?
Send the evidence. Every assessment carries a reply section that runs your words as written, and a factual dispute with a source behind it triggers a re-check. If we were wrong, we correct it and record that we did.
Do reader ratings feed into the score?
They sit beside it, never inside it. Ours is an editorial judgement against fixed criteria; theirs is lived experience of ordering. Blending the two would produce a number that answers neither question.