Methodology
How we track
Manual checks, date stamps, plain links. This page explains exactly what each field on the site means and where it comes from.
Manual checks, not scraping
Every price and status on this site was read from a live vendor page by a person and recorded with the date. We do not run an automated price scraper against vendor storefronts. A best-effort link checker (open source in our repository as scripts/check-offers.ts) records HTTP status and a regex price match for each offer URL, but its output is advisory and is never published as a price without a manual read.
Date stamps
Each product, offer and vendor carries a dateCheckedfield, shown on the page as "checked". Posts state the date their prices were read. If a date looks old, treat the price as historical and open the vendor page.
What the status labels mean
The vendor's page explicitly states support for the current title, patch or season as of the check date. We record the claim; we do not run the script.
The listing targets a superseded title or season (for example an NBA 2K26 build after NBA 2K27 launched, or a Season 29 Apex label during Season 30) and the vendor has not stated current support.
The platform holder publicly enforces against Cronus-class devices in this game (Epic for Fortnite, Activision for Call of Duty). This is a game-level flag, not a verified detection of a specific script.
No current-support claim was visible on the page we checked. The script may work; the vendor simply has not said so where we could read it.
Enforcement risk overrides every other status for a game where the platform holder publicly enforces against Cronus-class devices. As of our snapshot that means Fortnite (Epic) and Call of Duty (Activision). Sources are on the status board.
Prices
- We record the checkout price shown in page text, plus any regular or compare-at price the vendor displays.
- Prices that only render inside an embedded checkout widget are recorded as null and displayed as "See vendor page". They are excluded from lowest-price math.
- Aggregator "value" labels (for example the dollar figure on a Cronus Zen Central library page) are not checkout prices and are recorded as notes, not offers.
- Reseller listings whose creator authorization we could not verify are shown as offers with a note, never merged into the creator's own product as if they were the same storefront.
- Price history starts on the day a product is added. Each manual check appends one point.
How sellers get listed
We list any storefront that sells or distributes Cronus Zen scripts and has a reachable page we can read. There is no fee and no way to pay for placement or ranking. Sorting is by status, then lowest price. Vendors can request a listing or a correction at /submit.
Vendors we cannot verify
Some creators are visible to us only through an aggregator library and have no direct storefront we could find. We list them with the platform marked "Unknown" and link the page where we saw them. Where a listing appears to redistribute another creator's paid script, we say so as "appears to" with the source, and we do not treat it as equivalent to the creator's product.
No paid placement, plain links
No vendor pays to appear here and none can pay to rank higher. Outbound links are the vendor's own URLs with no affiliate or tracking parameters. See the disclosure.
What we do not claim
We do not test scripts. We do not rate safety. We never make detection or safety claims about any script or device. "Updated" is a vendor claim with a date, and we say so wherever it appears.
Corrections
If a price, status or note is wrong, email desk@cronusmarket.com with the URL and a screenshot. We update the record, keep the previous value in price history, and note material corrections on the affected page.
Last updated 2026-09-02