How we check Starlink code claims

What we read on starlink.com

We read the same public pages and data that starlink.com loads in your browser: the US order lists (the price data the order page shows before you enter an address), the help-center articles, the legal documents including the Referral Program Terms, and the text the order screens display. We look for any field, label or message about codes. We don’t log in, place orders or enter anyone’s home address.

Screenshots of the order flow were taken with a public test address (a county courthouse) and a referral link, stopping before any payment step: we never place orders. Each screenshot says when it was taken.

How we log coupon-site claims

For each coupon or deal site we record what its Starlink page claimed, the date, and whether we read the page itself or its search listing (some sites block automated reading, so their search listing is all anyone outside sees first). We describe the claim. We never copy a stranger’s referral code onto this site, and we never submit codes or links to those sites.

What the labels mean

• Matches / confirmed What we read on Starlink’s own pages agrees with the claim.
• Not Starlink’s / relabeled The claim doesn’t match anything Starlink publishes, or a customer’s referral code is being shown as a promo code.
• Unverified / gap We couldn’t confirm it either way, or Starlink’s own sources disagree. The label says so, rather than a guess.
• How it works Not a claim to judge: a note on how Starlink handles links, codes or offers.

Every fact we print also carries one of these source labels, shown when you hover or tap it:

• official: From the provider’s or regulator’s own page.
• secondary: Reported by press or a third party.
• our-reading: Our plain reading of the provider’s own text.
• derived: Our arithmetic from the cited figures.
• observed: What that page showed when we read it (not a Starlink source).
• unverified: Not confirmed by any source today.

How often we re-check

Starlink changes prices and help articles without notice: its US price list changed three times in two weeks this fall. We re-read the order lists, the referral terms and the referral help article before any page about offers is updated, at least once a month, and more often around Black Friday. Each page is stamped with the earliest check date of any fact it prints, so you can see how fresh it is. Changes are listed on the changelog, and mistakes on the corrections page.

AI answers and search results

Some entries describe what AI search answers or search result pages showed for a question on a given date. Those are observations, labeled as such. They show what a reader is likely to meet, not what Starlink says.

What we can’t see

We can’t see the order page for your exact address, any offer emailed to you, or whether a particular order earned a referral reward. Only starlink.com and your Starlink account show those. Where that limits an answer, the page says so.

Fact-check standard: each claim here points to the Starlink page it came from (or says so when no page covers it), with the day we read it. No code lists, and no money from coupon sites or stores. Method · How we make money · Corrections