Registration is free and the queue is over eighty days, unless you pay to jump it.
startupranking.com
Eligibility
Who Startup Ranking accepts
You need
A Google, Facebook, LinkedIn or X account
A country and a state or region, both required
A founding date and an industry
You'll be rejected if
A founder unwilling to publish a region as well as a country, because both are required and both appear on the listing
StartupsSaaS productsIndie products
What you actually get
A global and country ranking based on web traffic and social metrics, plus a reference link, once an approval queue their own sales page measures at more than eighty days finally clears.
How to submit to Startup Ranking
1
Get past the bot check
The site sits behind a security interstitial on a first visit; wait for it rather than treating it as an outage.
2
Validate the URL
Create Startup begins at /startup/create/url-validation, which checks the URL before it will show you a form. The guessable /startup/submit returns their 404.
3
Sign in
Google, Facebook, LinkedIn or X. They state they take only your name, email and picture.
4
Fill the registration
Startup name, legal name, a slogan capped at 60 characters, country and state, URL, founding date, business type, industry, tags, description, socials, email and phone.
5
Wait, or pay to skip
Free registration joins a queue their own page describes as more than eighty days; $25 buys approval within 24 hours.
Startup Ranking requirements
A startup name and URL
A country and a state or region
A founding date
An industry
A contact email
A description
A legal name, slogan, business type, tags, socials and phoneoptional
Gotchas
The free queue is over eighty days by their own account, and the entire paid product exists to sell a way around it.
The form requires a state or region as well as a country, which publishes a location for a founder who may only want to say which country they are in.
A founding date is mandatory down to the day, which is awkward for a product that never had a formal founding.
The site is bot-protected, so the first load shows a security check and the guessable submit path returns a 404.
Let your agent submit to Startup Ranking
Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the Startup Ranking 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 Startup Ranking rules above, so you find out you would be rejected before you open a tab.
Hands your agent all 7 fields this form asks for, 1 of them optional, already filled from your pack.
Tells you what paying buys here, so you pick it on purpose: SR Faster Approval is $25 for Basic or $49 for Premium, both reduced from $49 and $99: approval within 24 hours, a week in their New Startups section and a newsletter spotlight to 140,000 subscribers.
Types it into Startup Ranking 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 Startup Ranking?".
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Startup Ranking FAQ
How long does Startup Ranking approval take?
Startup Ranking's typical time from submission to going live is 80+ days.
How much does it cost to submit to Startup Ranking?
Startup Ranking has a free submission option plus paid placement (SR Faster Approval is $25 for Basic or $49 for Premium, both reduced from $49 and $99: approval within 24 hours, a week in their New Startups section and a newsletter spotlight to 140,000 subscribers.).
Does Startup Ranking give a dofollow backlink?
Yes, a listing on Startup Ranking carries a dofollow link. The site has a domain rating of 61.
Does Startup Ranking require a backlink to your site?
No, Startup Ranking does not require a link back from your site.
What gets you rejected from Startup Ranking?
A founder unwilling to publish a region as well as a country, because both are required and both appear on the listing.