Affordable Company Rating Website Built for Small Business & SMEs

Get the trust signals your business needs without the massive monthly fees…

If you’re a small business, local business or startup, you’ve probably checked out platforms like Trustpilot and balked at the pricing.

The most basic package starts from £249 per month and tops out over £1000 for the most advanced.

For a small business, that’s crazy money.

A company rating website should be a powerful tool that validates your brand, drives local traffic, and helps you convert leads.

Instead, legacy rating platforms have become cost centers, forcing small businesses to pay thousands just to access the basic credibility tools they deserve.

This is the problem Rated Club was founded to solve.

The Problem With Trustpilot

Trustpilot is a multi-billion dollar enterprise. It has been the go-to for company ratings for over a decade now.

Trustpilot knows it is the dominant player in the market and, rather than making its service more egalitarian, it has gone the opposite way.

Back when we first used Trustpilot many moons ago now, the basic package was £49 per month.

Nowadays it starts from £249. That’s quite the leap, right?

But the problems don’t end there.

Trustpilot is NOT Built For Small Businesses

There’s also loads of additional headaches you have to live with when you go all-in on platforms like Trustpilot.

Here are the key pain points that make Trustpilot impractical for local businesses and SMEs:

• The Feature Tollbooth: Essential tools for growth—such as removing competitor ads from your profile, accessing predictive analytics, or increasing the volume of automated review invitations—are strictly gated behind expensive tiers (e.g., £600 to over £1,000 per month).
• Rapid Escalation of Fees: Many small businesses report that starter plans quickly jump in price (e.g., from £49 to £249 per month) just for basic functionality, making long-term budgeting impossible.
• SEO Hijacking: Your dedicated profile on the platform often ranks higher in search results than your own business website, essentially forcing you to pay an ever-increasing fee to stay visible and subsidizing the platform’s SEO success.
• The Time Sink: The systems are often complex, requiring excessive time and resource allocation to manage and respond to every review, adding the cost of a virtual full-time reputation manager to the monthly fee.
• Data Lock-in: The threat of losing access to or visibility of your hard-earned reviews upon cancelling your expensive subscription creates a vendor dependency that locks SMEs into high-cost contracts.

Rated Club is Custom Built For Small Businesses & SMEs

Trust signals are vital for growth. Consumers demand them, and search engines like Google (as well as AI search) require them for inclusion.

All businesses, large and small, should be able to develop trust signals, and there shouldn’t be such a massive premium attached to it (as there is with Trustpilot).

We created Rated Club to democratize company ratings and, by proxy, trust signals.

Our platform delivers every trust signal small and local businesses require for a fraction of the cost of Trustpilot (plans start from £99 per year, not per month).

We took the essential features of established trust platforms and stripped away the complexity, the escalating price tiers, and the bias.

The result is a system that ensures your business gets the verified credibility and local discovery it needs to thrive in the age of AI search.

We offer more than just a place to leave a review.

We combine the power of independent verification and SEO-optimized profiles with direct sales features, delivering massive value for a single, low annual fee.

All Rated Club Plans Come With Growth Features Tailored For Small and Local Businesses

Our promise to you is simple: We replace the complex, expensive, and biased review systems that short-change small businesses, ensuring that trust, visibility, and growth are accessible and affordable for every UK SME.