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alternativeai.tools: requirements, how to submit, and what you actually get

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1,400 tools and a real dofollow, behind an account the site only mentions once you scroll

alternativeai.tools
alternativeai.tools homepage
Eligibility

Who alternativeai.tools accepts

You need
An account, created with an email and a password of at least six characters
A live URL
One of their 32 categories
You'll be rejected if
Nothing is published. The stated scope is AI tools for marketing, development, content creation and research
AI tools
What you actually get
A page at /tools/<slug> with a description, a pricing badge, category tags and a Visit Website button carrying rel="noopener noreferrer" with no nofollow, so the link is a real one. The catalogue is genuinely large for this DR: 1,410 tools across 32 categories, with Marketing and SEO holding 129 of them and Productivity 172. Nothing on the site publishes a review time, so how long the queue is remains unknown.

How to submit to alternativeai.tools

  1. Create an account first
    /auth/sign-up takes a display name, an email and a password of at least six characters. There is no Google, GitHub or other social option on either the sign-up or the sign-in screen.
  2. Go to the bottom of the tools page
    The Submit Tool nav item points at /tools#submit, which is the foot of a page listing 1,410 tools. Signed out it shows only a line saying you must sign in, and a Sign in to Submit button.
  3. Fill the form and send it
    The form appears in place once signed in. Nothing on the site states a review time or what happens next.

alternativeai.tools requirements

An account
Tool name
Website URL
Category
one of 32
Description

Gotchas

Submitting needs an account and there is no social sign-in anywhere: email and a six-character password on both the sign-up and the sign-in screen. Nothing warns you before you have already scrolled to the form.
The account is advertised as being for something else. The sign-up page describes it as collaborating with GPT-5 Assist and managing your prompt library, and never mentions submitting a tool, so the one thing it actually gates is the thing it does not name.

Let your agent submit to alternativeai.tools

Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the alternativeai.tools playbook and gets the brief for this exact form, with the values already taken from your submission pack instead of placeholders you fill in by hand.

What it does for this platform
Checks your product against the 4 alternativeai.tools rules above, so you find out you would be rejected before you open a tab.
Hands your agent all 5 fields this form asks for, none of them optional, already filled from your pack.
Types it into alternativeai.tools in your own browser, and stops for you when the form wants a sign-in.
Records what it sent, so the dashboard can answer "did I ever submit to alternativeai.tools?".
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alternativeai.tools FAQ

How long does alternativeai.tools approval take?
alternativeai.tools does not publish how long approval takes.
How much does it cost to submit to alternativeai.tools?
Submitting to alternativeai.tools is free.
Does alternativeai.tools give a dofollow backlink?
Yes, a listing on alternativeai.tools carries a dofollow link. The site has a domain rating of 2.
Does alternativeai.tools require a backlink to your site?
No, alternativeai.tools does not require a link back from your site.
What gets you rejected from alternativeai.tools?
Nothing is published. The stated scope is AI tools for marketing, development, content creation and research.