Ads and sponsorship

Ads stay manual, route-limited, and dormant until the product is explicitly ready.

This page explains the current placement policy as the product exists today. Open Model Lab uses a manual-first AdSense path, keeps Premium ad-free, and fails closed until ads are explicitly enabled.

Current model

The free tier may show ads on selected browse, search, and safe concept-page surfaces when ads are explicitly enabled. Premium removes those ads and unlocks the existing premium study-power features described on the Pricing page.

When advertising is enabled, Open Model Lab uses manually placed Google AdSense units only. The current architecture is manual-first and does not rely on Auto ads as the primary mode.

The intent is simple: ads can support public browsing without interrupting the live science-learning interaction. Before approval and explicit activation, the ad system stays dormant and renders nothing.

Allowed placements

Home page

Concept library

Subject directory and subject pages

Topic directory

Topic pages

Guided collections landing page

Search results page

Concept pages only in clearly separated non-interactive zones

Protected learning surfaces

Simulation stage, controls, graphs, equations, and time rails

Interactive concept lab container and post-bench study cards

Compare mode, prediction mode, and worked-example flows

Challenge pages and challenge interactions

Share tools, pricing, account, auth, and developer harness pages

About, billing, privacy, terms, contact, support, and other sensitive trust pages

Provider note

Google AdSense is the current provider path when ads are turned on. Local testing may show only a provider request without a filled creative, and missing config keeps each placement collapsed instead of rendering a broken shell.

If advertising is disabled, unapproved, or unconfigured, Open Model Lab renders no live ad unit and does not load the AdSense bootstrap on ineligible pages. The free tier still keeps access to the core concept library, simulations, tracks, and standard challenge mode.

Read Privacy for the related data note, or use Contact if you need to ask about the current ad policy directly.