How the Pakka Score works
What the number means, who sets it, and why a commission cannot change it.
What the score is
The Pakka Score is one number out of 10 for one plan at one destination. It is not a rating of the provider. The same provider gets a different score in Thailand and in Bali, because it resells a different network in each and travellers report a different experience.
It is computed when the page renders, from the PriceSignals feed. We never store our own copy of the truth.
What goes into it
The number is built from destination quality (how travellers rated this provider in this country), price against the market, and the provider's overall rating. Price means what the plan costs for the data your trip will use, so a bigger plan does not score better just for carrying data you will not need. Trip length and data size filter the table — they do not go into the score.
How those parts are combined is set by PriceSignals for every brand it powers, so a commission cannot buy a better rank. Country reviews count more as they accumulate: at 30 reviews they weigh equally with the overall rating in the quality mix; with hundreds of reviews the country score leads.
When the country sample is thin
We always show a Pakka Score. If a provider has no reviews in this country, we do not use its overall rating as a stand-in country score — that would let an unmeasured provider beat one we have actually scored here. Instead the destination slot takes one point less than the typical provider we have measured here, or its own overall rating less one point, whichever is lower, so at the same price a provider we have measured here wins. On multi-country trips a country with no reviews counts as the weakest. We only say a provider is stronger or weaker here once there are at least 20 country reviews.
When a provider's price feed fails the daily data quality check, its prices are hidden that day rather than shown stale. The page says so.
Data sources and refresh
Plans and prices: scraped daily by PriceSignals across the market, in USD, converted to INR or PKR at a daily rate shown under every table.
Provider experience and destination quality: from traveller reviews on Trustpilot, Google Play and the App Store, refreshed daily. The destination score pools every review of that provider that names the country, and is shown with its review count and its move over the last six months.
Data quality: a pass, warn or fail per scrape job, daily. Every table shows the timestamp of the data behind it.
Commissions and independence
We earn a commission when you buy through our links. The scoring is set centrally by PriceSignals and is identical across every brand it powers. No brand, including this one, can adjust it. That is what makes the independence statement true rather than a promise.
Providers with no affiliate programme are listed and scored anyway. Leaving them out would make the comparison dishonest, and their presence is evidence that the score is not for sale.