A disclosure before anything else: this guide is published by CouponHub, and CouponHub is one of the sites in it. We have tried to make that bearable by keeping every claim to something a reader can check. Where a site says something about itself, it is marked as their claim and linked. Where we looked at a page ourselves, the date we looked is given. Nothing here is a paid placement, and nothing was checked at a merchant's checkout, by us or on our behalf.
Honey is still running, and it still has users. What changed is that a lot of people stopped trusting browser extensions to sit between them and a checkout. If that is you, these are the sites worth knowing about, and what each one actually does when you land on a store page.
Jump to: SimplyCodes · CouponFollow · Wethrift · RetailMeNot · Slickdeals · CouponHub
What we checked, and what we could not
On 12 September 2026 we opened each site's Nike page, the same merchant on every site, and wrote down four things anyone can verify in a browser: whether the full code is visible without clicking, whether an extension or an account is needed, what evidence the site shows for each code, and whether the page loaded at all.
That is the whole method. It is narrow on purpose.
What we did not do: we did not take codes to a checkout and compare success rates. An earlier version of this guide said we had tested ten codes per site across five brands. No records of that testing exist, so the claim has been removed rather than restated. Any accuracy or success-rate number below belongs to the site that published it, and is labelled that way.
Comparing coupon sites by "code success rate" is also harder than it sounds: results depend on the merchants you pick, the day, and whether your basket meets each code's conditions. Treat any published number, ours included, as the publisher's own measurement.
What each site does at checkout
Observed on each site's Nike page, 12 September 2026.
| Site | Code shown without a click | Extension or account | Evidence shown per code |
|---|---|---|---|
| SimplyCodes | No codes were listed for Nike that day, only deals | Neither required; extension offered | "Last checked" time, "used today" / "used 1 year ago", some offers dated to the day they were last confirmed |
| CouponFollow | No: first three characters, then "Show Coupon Code" | Neither required | A store-level vote count (831 for Nike). No per-code date |
| Wethrift | No: "Code hidden, select Show Code to reveal" | Neither required | A success percentage per code, when it last worked, a weekly history chart, and where the code came from (a TikTok video, an Instagram post) |
| RetailMeNot | No: "Show Code" | Neither required | A dated count of verified offers at the top of the page, and an "interested users" number per offer |
| Slickdeals | Deals are in the open; the old coupon section is gone | Neither required to read; an account to post | Community votes and comments on each deal thread |
| CouponHub | No: part of the code, then Get code | Neither required | The date a person reviewed the record, and shopper reports where any exist |
One thing stands out: every site on this list now hides the code behind a click. A previous version of this guide advised readers to prefer sites that show codes immediately and suggested that hiding a code meant it was dead. That advice no longer separates anything, it is not a reliable signal of a code's quality, and CouponHub itself now hides codes until you ask for them, so repeating it here would have been self-serving nonsense.
SimplyCodes
SimplyCodes publishes the most detailed public account of its own verification of any site here. It describes a three-layer process, automated checkout testing, human verifiers, and live signal from extension users, and publishes its own success-rate figures. Those are their published claims, on their own pages; we have not measured them.
What we saw: on its Nike page that day, SimplyCodes listed no promo codes at all, only deals that need no code, alongside a count of competitor deals. Several offers carried a date they were last confirmed, one of them from October 2024. Dating an old offer rather than hiding its age is a good habit; it also shows that "verified" inventory thins out on big merchants.
Worth using when you want to see a site's reasoning about its own codes, and you do not mind being offered an extension.
CouponFollow
CouponFollow's angle is sourcing: it collects codes that surface in public channels rather than waiting for a merchant feed. On the Nike page it showed the first three characters of each code and a "Show Coupon Code" button, a store-level vote count, and per-offer descriptions, but no date or success signal on the individual codes.
Worth using when a brand has just run a promotion and you want breadth of sourcing more than you want per-code evidence.
Wethrift
Wethrift has gone furthest on per-code evidence of any site we looked at. Each Nike code carried a success percentage, the last date it worked, and a bar chart of weekly results, with the source of each code named, often a TikTok video or an Instagram post. The page opened by saying there was "a low chance you'll find a working Nike promo code right now", which is an unusually candid thing for a coupon site to put at the top of a merchant page.
Those percentages are Wethrift's own measurements; we have not audited them. But showing a number that says "this probably will not work" is a different posture from a badge that always reads "verified".
Worth using when you want a read on whether it is worth trying at all before you spend ten minutes on codes.
RetailMeNot
RetailMeNot is the biggest of these by inventory and has been through two owners in recent years: J2 Global agreed to buy it from Vericast for about $420 million in September 2020, and J2 Global later renamed itself Ziff Davis.
What we saw: a dated header, "15 verified offers on September 12th, 2026", codes behind a "Show Code" button, an "interested users" count per offer, and a cash-back offer mixed into the list. The page carries its own affiliate disclosure.
An earlier version of this guide called RetailMeNot's verified badge "famously meaningless" and said expired 2019 codes still showed as verified. We have no evidence for either statement and have removed both. What we can say from the page itself is that the badge is dated at the page level rather than per code, so it tells you when the page was reviewed, not which code will work.
Worth using when nothing smaller has anything for your merchant.
Slickdeals
Slickdeals is a deal community rather than a coupon database, and an old one: its own about page is headed "24 Years of Slickdealing" with a copyright line beginning in 1999, which makes it older than most of the category. An earlier version of this guide called it fifteen years old, which was wrong.
What we saw: the dedicated coupon section at slickdeals.net/coupons/ and coupons.slickdeals.net both returned "Page requested is no longer available". Store coupon pages now live under the editorial daily.slickdeals.net section, and the front page is deal threads with votes and comments.
Worth using when the purchase is large enough that one good thread beats a stack of percentage codes.
CouponHub
This is us, so read it with that in mind.
CouponHub lists 10,873 active codes across 2,790 stores as of 12 September 2026. Those numbers move; the figure a page shows is generated from the catalogue rather than typed into the copy. Most of the catalogue arrives through retailer affiliate feeds and direct merchant relationships, and shoppers can send codes in, though that channel is a small fraction of the total.
What a code carries here: the discount with the merchant's own conditions kept in the headline, so "50% off the third item" is not shown as "50% off"; the date a person read the record before it was published; and shopper reports where any exist. Pressing Get code copies the code and opens the retailer in a new tab, and the button says so before you press it.
Two corrections to what this guide previously said about us. It described a "live health score from 0 to 100" on every code. That score now appears only on codes shoppers have actually reported on, because without reports it was mostly a measure of how recently we approved the record, which says nothing about whether a code works. It also gave the catalogue as "7,900+ active codes across 2,000+ stores", which was the size at the time of writing and is now out of date.
What we do not do: we do not put codes through a real checkout, so nothing here carries a checkout-tested label. Our review is an editorial check of the record, which is a weaker claim than testing, and we would rather say so than let a badge imply otherwise.
Worth using when you want the conditions on an offer stated up front, and a date attached to every claim.
DealsPlus, which we removed
DealsPlus was seventh on the previous version of this list. On 12 September 2026 dealsplus.com redirected to www.dealsplus.com, which returned NXDOMAIN on three separate resolvers, so the site did not load at all. We have left this section in place rather than quietly deleting the entry, because a reader who followed the old recommendation deserves to know what happened to it. If it comes back, it can be reassessed.
What happened to Honey
PayPal completed its acquisition of Honey on 6 January 2020 for approximately $4 billion. In December 2024 the YouTube channel MegaLag published "Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam", which alleged that the extension replaced creators' affiliate tracking with its own and favoured codes that paid its owner.
Those allegations are now before a court rather than settled. They are consolidated as In re PayPal Honey Browser Extension Litigation in the Northern District of California, case number 5:24-cv-09470; the court denied PayPal's motion to dismiss on 22 June 2026. Allegations in a live case are not findings, and this guide does not treat them as any.
The previous version of this guide stated a view count for the video and asserted what Honey was doing "systematically". We could not verify the view count from the source, and the conduct is exactly what is being litigated, so both have been removed.
How to judge any coupon site
Three checks that still tell you something, now that hiding codes tells you nothing:
- Is there a date on the page, and what is it attached to? A date on each code is worth more than one date at the top of the page, which only tells you when someone looked at the page.
- Does the site distinguish its own checks from shoppers' reports? A site that says "we read this" and "four shoppers said it worked" is telling you two different things. A single "verified" badge collapses both into one word that means neither.
- Are an offer's conditions in the headline? "20% off" that turns out to be 20% off your second item, over $100, for new customers only is the most common way a coupon page wastes your time.
And the simplest check of all: try one code. If it works, the site is doing something. If three in a row fail, use a different source for that merchant.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need a browser extension to use any of these?
No. Every site in the table above showed its codes to us in a normal browser with no extension and no account. SimplyCodes offers an extension; it did not require one to see its Nike page.
Why does every coupon site hide the code until you click?
All six sites we looked at do it, so it is now a convention of the category rather than a signal about any one site. The click is also what sends the visit to the retailer, which is how most of these sites, this one included, earn a commission. That is worth knowing; it is not evidence that a code is dead.
Which of these has the most codes?
RetailMeNot is the largest by inventory, by a wide margin. We have not counted any site's catalogue ourselves, and we would not treat a catalogue size as a quality measure: a bigger list contains more of everything, including codes that no longer work.
Are the success rates on these sites reliable?
They are each site's own measurement of its own codes, taken by its own method, and none of them publish the underlying data. Wethrift shows the most granular version, down to a weekly chart per merchant. Treat all of them as the publisher's claim, not as an independent result.
Do these sites work outside the United States?
Coverage follows affiliate networks, which are organised by region, so most US-first sites are thinner elsewhere. RetailMeNot and SimplyCodes run region-specific sites. CouponHub carries UK and EU merchants when they appear in the networks we work with, but the catalogue is US-first. For UK-specific deals, local sites will generally be better stocked.
About this guide
Published by: CouponHub, which is also one of the six sites compared. See the disclosure at the top.
What was observed: each site's Nike page, loaded in a browser on 12 September 2026, plus DNS lookups for DealsPlus on three resolvers the same day. Live pages change; if something in the table no longer matches what you see, the table is the thing that is out of date.
What was not observed: no codes were taken to a checkout. No accuracy, success-rate or catalogue-size figure in this guide is our measurement, except CouponHub's own catalogue counts, which are generated from our database.
Commercial disclosure: CouponHub earns a commission when a shopper buys through some of the links on our own site. The links to the other six sites in this guide are ordinary links that pay us nothing. No site paid for inclusion, position, or wording, and the other five were not contacted.
Sources: PayPal newsroom, completion of the Honey acquisition; In re PayPal Honey Browser Extension Litigation case page; J2 Global's agreement to acquire RetailMeNot; Slickdeals about page; SimplyCodes on how it works.
