How Absolute Path is funded

Absolute Path is free for learners. This page says what Absolute Path costs, who pays for it, and what we will not do to earn money.

What you pay

Nothing. Every course, every practice problem, and every mock test is free. You do not need an account, and we never ask for a card.

What Absolute Path costs

Your code runs in your own browser, and not on our servers. So the site needs only four things: a host for the pages, a small database for accounts and progress, a service that sends email, and a domain name. When we wrote this page, they cost about 50 US dollars per month in total.

Who pays now

We pay these costs ourselves. Until at least November 2027, Absolute Path has no sponsors, no ads, and no paid plans.

Who can pay later

The costs grow when more people learn here. If we need income later, we plan to take it from organizations, so that learners do not have to pay.

• A sponsor of a path. A company can pay to have its name on a career path. The page then says clearly who the sponsor is. A sponsor does not receive your data, and it cannot change what a lesson says.
• Tools for groups. A school, a bootcamp, or a company can pay for tools that only a group needs, for example a view of the progress of a class.
• Optional extras. An extra that costs us money or time for each person can have a price, for example a review of your code by a person. You never need an extra to finish a course.

What we will not do

• We will not sell or rent your data.
• We will not add tracking for ads.
• We will not put ads in a lesson.
• We will not put a course behind a payment.
• We will not show a sponsor or a paid link without a clear label.

If this changes

We change this page before we take money from a new source. The date at the top shows the last change. The privacy policy says what data we keep.