Is Sponsored Code secure?

Legit.Show measured Sponsored Code's Security frame at 45/100. Security headers present: HSTS. Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.

How does Legit.Show measure Sponsored Code?

Legit.Show scores seven frames — Performance, Accessibility, Security, Privacy, Reliability, Standards and Discoverability — deterministically from the public surface (URL, HTTP headers, real Lighthouse), with no LLM in the scoring path. See legit.show/methodology.

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Sponsored Code

Last updated 2026-07-09 · benchmark measured 2026-09-12 — deterministic & reproducible

Sponsored Code pays developers in USDC to display one ad line in their AI coding terminal.

88/100

7/7 frames

Top 18% of 14,138 measured · #2 of 7 in ai chat ad network

Legit Benchmark — the simple average of 7 measured frames. Frames we could not measure are left out of the average, never counted as zero. Every frame is shown below with its evidence.

Checked 2026-09-12 · scores move as sites change

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Legit.Show scored Sponsored Code 88/100 on 2026-09-12, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/sponsoredcode-com/2026-09-12

Is Sponsored Code production-ready?

Legit.Show scores Sponsored Code 88 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Sponsored Code (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Privacy; its weakest is Security. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

Performance — 75/100
Accessibility — 96/100
Security — 45/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
Privacy — 100/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
Reliability — 100/100
Standards — 100/100
Discoverability — 100/100

What we measured

Security headers present: HSTS.
No Content-Security-Policy.
Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
Real Lighthouse performance run — 292 ms to first byte.
Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
Has a reachable privacy policy.
Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.

Who built it

product account @SponsoredCode

Who it's for

developers · AI agent users · brands wanting developer audiences · coding agents

Pricing

$1.00–$1.50 per 1,000 impressions (brand bids); developers earn USDC per ad impression

Sources and updates

Description: Taken from sponsoredcode.com's own website on 2026-07-09.
Operator: Sponsored Code, LLC, as named in sponsoredcode.com's terms, privacy page or footer.
Benchmark: Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-09-12.

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