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Four providers may pay us. One that we recommend first pays us nothing. Two were dropped for reasons we will not quietly reverse. The whole arrangement is here.

Baselined carries affiliate links. If you follow one and buy something, the provider may pay us a commission. That money funds the reading — the handbooks, the exam content outlines, the provider pages we compare them against — and it changes nothing about what those pages say.

Who can pay us

Four providers, and only these: KnowledgeHut, Simplilearn, Coursera and Udemy. Every link to them on this site is written as /go/ plus the provider’s name, is tagged rel=”sponsored nofollow”, and is declared where it appears rather than only here.

PMI. The Project Management Institute runs no affiliate programme we were able to verify, so every link to it on this site is an ordinary link that earns us nothing — including the links to its own PMP Exam Prep Course at USD $699 for members and USD $799 otherwise.

That course is the first recommendation on our PMP certification training page. It is the most expensive route listed and the only one that pays us nothing, and it is first because it is the one route whose acceptance at audit cannot be argued about. If a commission were steering these pages, it would not be there.

The same applies to PMI’s free one-hour introduction at USD $0, to counting the training you already hold from an employer or a university, and to the observation that an active CAPM waives the 35-hour requirement entirely. All of those are advice to spend less, or nothing, and all of them cost us money.

  • Edureka. The fleet’s own partner research keys it for this lane. On 24 September 2026 we went looking for its PMP course and the expected page returned a 404. We do not send readers to a product we could not confirm exists, so there is no Edureka key in this site’s link table and no Edureka link anywhere on it.
  • Scrum.org. Its assessment pages returned a bot-protection challenge on 24 September 2026 and served us nothing. Since we could not read its fees, formats or passing scores, we publish none of them — and we will not monetise a page about a product we could not check.
  • Any coupon or promo-code page. We do not run them. Marketplace sellers void purchases made with unapproved codes, and a page whose only content is a discount is a page with no reason to be trusted.
  • Exam dumps, question leaks and anything sold as a shortcut past PMI’s agreement. These are not a grey area. PMI says discussing exam questions can cost you your certification, and it uses forensic analysis to detect it.

A refusal published here is not reversible by quietly adding a link. If one of these changes — Edureka’s course appears, Scrum.org becomes readable — this page gets rewritten first, with the date, and you will be able to see what changed.

The rules a commission does not get to break

  1. Order is editorial. The routes on the money page are ordered by how little argument each one invites at a PMI audit. That is why the unpaid option is first and the cheapest paid option is not.
  2. We do not price what we cannot price honestly. Marketplace course prices are promotional and regional almost continuously, so we print none — even though a price would make the link more clickable.
  3. We publish what providers get wrong. Two of the four providers above were describing PMI’s eligibility rules incorrectly or incompletely on the day we checked, and both pages say so by name. A commission does not buy silence about a factual error.
  4. We do not repeat marketing claims as facts. Two of them advertise money-back guarantees and one heads an FAQ with the PMP pass rate. PMI publishes no pass rate. We quote what a provider says about itself and label it as such.
  5. No number on this site comes from a partner except that partner’s own price, with the date and currency we read it in.

Until each programme is approved for this site, /go/knowledgehut, /go/simplilearn, /go/coursera and /go/udemy point at the providers’ own homepages. No tracking URL appears anywhere in the text of this site, and swapping a placeholder for an approved link later changes nothing that you read.

Worth knowing about one of them: the marketplace programme’s cookie is short, its subscription products are excluded from commission, and it may be folded into another company’s programme after the two combined in May 2026. That is why the link is kept swappable and why the page that mentions it recommends checking the hours on the completion certificate rather than chasing the price.

If you would rather not

Every provider on this site can be reached by typing its name into a search engine, and every certifying body we cite is linked plainly. Nothing here is gated behind a paid link, and the pages read exactly the same either way. Questions go to the desk.