What this site measures, where the numbers come from, and what they do not mean.
OpenTheRank is an independent reference site for regional pricing. It answers one question, product by product: what does the same digital thing cost in one country versus another? The catalogue covers AI subscriptions, streaming services, photo and video tools, productivity and education apps, social apps, mobile games, Steam and Nintendo eShop titles, and Apple hardware.
It is a static, editorially independent site. There are no accounts, no submissions, and no user-contributed prices — every number on it was read from a seller's own storefront.
Each product's prices are collected from the storefront that actually sells it in each country:
No price is inferred from another country's price, and none is estimated from a currency conversion of a list price. If a country is not shown for a product, it is because a figure for it was not available — not because it was left out.
Local prices are converted to a common currency using daily exchange rates, which is what lets a lira price and a yen price sit in the same column. The original local price is always shown alongside the converted one, because the converted figure is the derived number, not the real one.
Tax treatment differs by market and is labelled rather than hidden: rows marked included already carry tax in the listed price, while rows marked varies depend on the buyer's state, province, or billing details and cannot be stated as a single number. Some pages also carry GDP (PPP) figures from the IMF World Economic Outlook, so a price can be read against local incomes instead of against the dollar alone. Every page states when its figures were last refreshed.
The ordering falls out of the prices. Nothing on this site is a paid placement: no product can buy a position, a badge, or an inclusion, and none of the rankings are sponsored. The site is supported by advertising, and advertising has no bearing on which products are listed or how they are ordered.
A ranking is a statement about price, not about quality. That a product costs less in one country says nothing about whether it is the better product, and nothing about whether it is the right one for you.
A figure on this site is what a storefront showed when it was last read — not a quote, and not an offer. Prices change without notice, stores run regional promotions and price tests, and a currency can move far enough overnight to reorder a table.
Whether you can actually buy at another country's price is a separate matter entirely, governed by each store's own account, billing, and residency rules. This site reports what things cost; it does not advise anyone to circumvent a seller's terms, and it cannot promise any price will be available to any particular buyer.
Every product page names the source its figures were read from and the date they were refreshed, so any number here can be checked against the storefront it came from. When a source changes shape — a store retires an endpoint, a service moves its pricing page — the affected figures are re-collected from the new source rather than carried forward.