Business & Finance
Sponsored Code
Last updated 2026-07-09 · benchmark measured 2026-08-10 — deterministic & reproducible
Sponsored Code pays developers in USDC to display one ad line in their AI coding terminal.
Is Sponsored Code production-ready?
Legit.Show scores Sponsored Code 88 out of 100 — the simple average of its 6 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. 6 of the seven frames returned a score; Accessibility was not measurable on this service and is recorded as null — not as zero. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 80/100
- Accessibility — not measurable on this service (null — not scored as 0)
- Security — 45/100
- Privacy — 100/100
- 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 — 800 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
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