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Submit AI Tools: requirements, how to submit, and what you actually get
A large AI tools index whose free lane costs a badge you host forever, behind a colour check that hides the form and the prices.
submitaitools.org
Eligibility
Who Submit AI Tools accepts
You need
A live URL, which the listing is built around
A tool with an AI angle: every one of their seventeen categories is an AI bucket
Somewhere on your own site to host their badge, because the free lane's step 1 is the badge
An email address you are willing to have on their monthly list, which the free form makes mandatory
You'll be rejected if
Anything with no AI story, since the whole index is organised as AI categories
AI toolsAI chatbotsDeveloper toolsProductivity toolsDesign toolsOpen source projects
What you actually get
A listing page of your own with a write-up, a category slot and a screenshot, on a site carrying a few thousand tools across seventeen categories. The outbound link is nofollow unless the listing is a paid one, so what the free lane buys is the audience and the category placement.
How to submit to Submit AI Tools
1
Get past the colour check
Submit Tool for Free links to /submit-your-ai-tool/, which redirects to /verify/submit/ and asks you to click the button of a named colour out of ten. Nothing about the form or the prices is visible until that is answered, and /promote/ is guarded separately the same way.
2
Read which of the three cards you are filling
Past the check are three forms side by side with identical fields: Basic at $19, Pro at $99, and Free at $0. The only visible difference is the button at the bottom, so check that yours says Send Tool rather than Continue with PayPal.
3
Put their badge on your site first
Step 1 of the free card is a Copy badge Code button and the instruction to add the badge to your home page or footer. Their review reads your HTML, so the badge has to be live before the form is worth sending.
4
Fill step 2 and send it
Tool name, tagline, contact email, URL, one pricing model out of six, and at least one of seven platform checkboxes. The monthly newsletter checkbox on this card is marked Required.
5
Wait, with nothing to watch
They state up to five business days. There is no account, no dashboard and no status page, so the listing appearing is the only signal, and corrections go by email with the listing URL in the subject.
Submit AI Tools requirements
Tool name and live URL
A tagline
An email address they can reply to, which also goes on their monthly list
One pricing model
Free, Freemium, Free Trial, Paid or Subscription
At least one platform
Web, Chrome, Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android
Their badge on your home page or footer
live before the form is sent
Gotchas
The badge is not a one-off toll. Their own wording is that the listing stays up "as long as the link remains live on your website", so taking it down later takes the listing with it.
The monthly newsletter checkbox is optional on the two paid cards and marked Required on the free one. The free lane is paid for with the badge and your inbox.
The free listing's outbound link is nofollow. Three free listings sampled carried rel="nofollow noopener" on both their links, while all five tools in the Recent Paid Tools rail carried one rel="dofollow" link each, so the followed link here is bought rather than earned.
Both the submit page and the promote page sit behind a pick-the-named-colour human check, so you cannot see the form, the three prices or the badge requirement until a person has answered it.
Let your agent submit to Submit AI Tools
Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the Submit AI 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 5 Submit AI Tools rules above, so you find out you would be rejected before you open a tab.
Hands your agent all 6 fields this form asks for, none of them optional, already filled from your pack.
Warns you that Submit AI Tools looks for its badge on your site, so it has to be live before you submit rather than after.
Tells you what paying buys here, so you pick it on purpose: three lanes on one page. Free is $0 and paid for with the badge. Basic is $19 lifetime, struck through from $49, and buys a verified tick and placement above the free submissions. Pro is $99 for 30 days, struck through from $199, and buys a link at the top of the homepage plus 30 days pinned to the top of its categories. Both paid lanes check out through PayPal or crypto, the crypto one at 20 percent off.
Types it into Submit AI 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 Submit AI Tools?".
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Submit AI Tools FAQ
How long does Submit AI Tools approval take?
Submit AI Tools's typical time from submission to going live is 3-5 days.
How much does it cost to submit to Submit AI Tools?
Submit AI Tools has a free submission option plus paid placement (Three lanes on one page. Free is $0 and paid for with the badge. Basic is $19 lifetime, struck through from $49, and buys a verified tick and placement above the free submissions. Pro is $99 for 30 days, struck through from $199, and buys a link at the top of the homepage plus 30 days pinned to the top of its categories. Both paid lanes check out through PayPal or crypto, the crypto one at 20 percent off.).
Does Submit AI Tools give a dofollow backlink?
No, links from Submit AI Tools are nofollow. The site has a domain rating of 75.
Does Submit AI Tools require a backlink to your site?
Yes, Submit AI Tools expects a link back from your site as part of listing.
What gets you rejected from Submit AI Tools?
Anything with no AI story, since the whole index is organised as AI categories.