Browser-Assisted Means You Are the Assistant.
Submitator wrote this page, and we sell the fully automated version of the job AgentLaunch shares with you, so read it with that in mind. Every quotation of theirs comes from agentlaun.ch, and every claim about us from our pricing, our terms, our white-label page, our savings table or our founder.
AgentLaunch asks the question on its own home page and answers it honestly: "Is this fully automatic? No, and that's on purpose." It is a Chrome extension that fills directory forms in your browser, signs in with your accounts and stops for you at every CAPTCHA, two-factor code and payment. Chrome has to stay open for the whole launch.
It costs $39 per product, or $149 for the source code to run on your own server, and directory fees are separate on both. Submitator is the other design: $29 for 30 directories, $49 for 60, $79 for 100 or $149 for all of them. You pay, you pick the directories and nothing more is needed from you.
Partial automation is still a job, and in this case the job is yours. What follows is where AgentLaunch hands it back, quoted from its own pages, and what we do instead.
| Line | AgentLaunch | Submitator |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $39: software for one product, run in your Chrome | $29: 30 directories, submitted for you |
| Directory fees | On you, site by site | Paid tier included on nine directories |
| $149 | Source code for your own server | Every directory, now and later, done |
| Also on the bill | Your hours at Chrome, plus hosting and AI if self-hosted | Nothing |
Their docs, under "Some steps always come back to you": CAPTCHAs, two-factor and recovery codes, sign-ins that want your mail or files, an account that already exists under your email, payments, email codes it cannot read, missing product details and the final publish on Product Hunt. With us, none of those lands on you: we handle the CAPTCHAs, the sign-ups and the paid tiers.
AgentLaunch vs Submitator
| Feature | AgentLaunch | Submitator |
|---|---|---|
| What you buy | Software that fills forms in your Chrome | Submissions, done for you |
| Who submits | Your browser, with you on call | We do |
| Price, 30 Sep 2026 | $39 per product, $149 to self-host | $29 for 30, $49 for 60, $79 for 100, $149 for all |
| Directory fees | Yours, paid on each site | Paid tier included on nine directories |
| CAPTCHAs, codes, payments | Handed back to you | Never reach you |
| Your computer | Chrome open for the whole launch | Not involved |
| Badge directories | You agree to add each badge | One component, installed once, kept live |
| Sign-ups | Your Google, GitHub or launch email | Dedicated emails, never your inbox |
| Images | Add your own if the imports fall short | Cut to each site's format |
| Changed forms | Read live; if it stalls, a step for you | Our job, every day |
| Agencies | Run clients yourself, no client logins | White label: 3 clients, 100 directories each, for $180 |
| Refund | Generally final | 30-day policy, per our terms |
Per agentlaun.ch, its home page, /pricing, /docs, /docs/self-hosting, /directories, /terms, llms.txt and two of its blog articles (/blogs/automated-directory-submission and /blogs/directory-submission-services-for-saas), all read on 30 September 2026, and per submitator.com/#pricing, /terms, /white-label and the savings table on our home page. Their prices are the live pricing card on that date: Hosted $39 for one product and the Self-Host License $149, both one-time, with the card line "Directory fees are separate. Eligibility and approval vary." The Uneed prices and note come from the Uneed row of the free sample of their catalog on /directories, last verified by them on 25 September 2026; Uneed closed its free waiting line to new products on 17 August 2026, as covered in our guide to submitting to Uneed and confirmed by Submitator's founder from submitting there, although Uneed's public pricing page still listed "Join the line" as free on 30 September 2026. The row sits in the catalog preview, which reads "You're seeing 50 of 394 verified directories"; the counts of 101 badge, 66 paid-only and 22 bot-protected directories come from the table in their automated-directory-submission article, headed "How often directory submissions need a person, across the 300+ directories in the AgentLaunch catalog". The $140 to $499 range and the $150 to $500 advice are quoted from their directory-submission-services-for-saas article. Pacing, Chrome, sign-in, Gmail and badge wording is quoted from /docs, the home page and its FAQ; the self-host requirements, costs, update cadence and licence limits from /docs/self-hosting and the home page FAQ; the refund wording, the operator, the operating limits and the line on unattended operation from their terms, updated 24 September 2026. Nothing was purchased from AgentLaunch and no launch was run with it, so its results in practice are outside what we can report beyond its published wording. The full automation, the dedicated emails, the handling of CAPTCHAs and payments, the arrangements with partner directories, the daily catalog maintenance, the spreading of submissions across days, the image cutting and description fitting, the tracking of Domain Rating and live placements, the logins and passwords we create for customers, the email domains unconnected to Submitator, the pooled accounts on some directories, the Request changes button and the rule that a directory joins our catalog only once it runs end to end are stated by Submitator's founder. The white-label price, $180 for 3 clients of 100 directories each, is published on our white-label page. The counts of 101, 66 and 22 cover their full catalog of 300+; the 394 is the figure on their directory page on the same day. Our "over $140" is the total of the nine paid tiers in our savings table at those directories' own published prices; two of the nine, AffyList and AlterBase, are directories Submitator owns. Our plans are $29 for 30 directories, $49 for 60 and $79 for 100, one-time, chosen by you in the dashboard, badges installed and kept live, rejections credited back as +1 directory and a 30-day refund policy on the conditions in our terms; All Directories is $149 once for one project, covering the 160 directories in our catalog today and every one we add, with committed floors of 180 by the end of 2026 and 300 by the end of 2027 and a proportional refund if we miss them; the +1 credit does not apply to that tier. Submitator's terms state an aim of 2 to 3 days and a committed ETA of 30 days from purchase, with a proportional refund for directories undelivered within it.
"No, and that's on purpose"
Credit where it is due: AgentLaunch never pretends. Its docs call it "browser-assisted, not fully automatic", and its terms put it in writing: "It is not a promise of fully unattended operation." The pricing card says the rest in one line: "It handles sign-ins; you step in for CAPTCHAs and payments".
So the extension needs a browser, and the browser needs you. Their docs: "Keep that Chrome profile open while a launch is running." Their FAQ: "If Chrome closes or the extension disconnects, the queue waits." The extension itself is "installed directly, not from the Chrome Web Store", through chrome://extensions with Developer mode switched on, and Safari and Firefox are not supported.
Their own blog describes your part honestly: "About 10 minutes of setup, then short check-ins". The check-ins are the product. Every CAPTCHA, every code and every payment waits in a list marked Needs you until you come back to it.
We built the version with no check-ins. You pay and nothing more is needed from you. No extension, no open browser, no list waiting for your evening.
Their blog prices a service at $140 to $499. Ours starts at $29.
AgentLaunch published a comparison of the three ways to get listed, and it is worth reading for one row. Under done-for-you service, the price is "Usually $140 to $499 per product" and your time is "Almost none". Their advice follows from it: "You want zero involvement and have $150 to $500: a done-for-you service."
We agree with the advice and not with the price. Zero involvement costs $29 for 30 directories, $79 for 100 and $149 for every directory we have and every one we add. Our 100-directory plan is a little over half the bottom of their range.
The same article lists what it dislikes about services, and each point has an answer on our side. "You may not get to choose every directory": with us you tick them yourself. Listings going out "using very similar descriptions": we write a unique description for every directory and fit it to each site's length rules. And the visibility question: every directory shows its Domain Rating before you pick it, and we track what actually went live.
"Directory fees are separate." Ours are included.
That line sits under both of their plans. When a directory wants money, the extension stops: "you pay each directory on its own site; the extension never enters card details." Their own catalog shows what that looks like at Uneed. It still describes a free route with "an assigned date up to 5 months out", but Uneed closed that free line to new products on 17 August 2026, so the way in is paid: "Skip the line" at $14.99, or $29.99 to pick your own date. With AgentLaunch that is $14.99 more, paid by you, on top of the $39. Their row was last verified on 25 September, five weeks after the line it describes had closed.
With us it is in the plan. We partner with directories such as Uneed, TryLaunch and StartupInspire and arrange the paid tier on your behalf, so no payment step ever reaches you. On nine directories that paid tier comes with every plan, the $29 one included, and at the directories' list prices it adds up to more than $140. Two of those nine, AffyList and AlterBase, belong to us, which the savings table on our home page shows.
Pick a badge directory, and you agree to add the badge
Their docs are precise: "Badges: sites that list you for free only with their badge or a link on your site are marked. Picking one means you agree to add it." The extension fills the form. The badge is a code change on your website, and it is yours to make.
It is not a corner case either. Their blog counts the directories in their catalog that want "A badge or link on your site in exchange for a free listing": 101.
Submitator installs one badge component once and keeps every directory's badge live. Badges are handled automatically. There is no snippet to paste per directory and no release to schedule around a form, and when a directory changes its badge, the fix happens on our side.
Badges Submitator places + keeps live
Every directory gets your email
The extension signs up as you. Their docs: it uses "the Google or GitHub account signed in to your Chrome profile", or else "signs up with your launch email and a unique password per directory". To confirm those sign-ups without you, it reads your Gmail through Composio, and they are upfront about the permission: "Google's consent screen shows full Gmail access", although they switch on only three read actions.
Either way, every directory in your launch now has your address, and directories write: confirmations, newsletters, upsells, featured-spot offers. We register you from dedicated emails we create for the purpose, so the directory mail lands with us and your inbox never hears about it.
Their blog has a warning aimed at services like ours: "Some services also create accounts under their own email, which makes it harder to edit a listing later." Harder to edit? Not here. We create the login and the password, and they are yours to use whenever you like, on email domains that have nothing to do with Submitator. On some directories we file through pooled accounts instead, which is how we negotiate a lower price with the directory on your behalf. And any listing can be corrected: press Request changes and we fix it.
Ten a day is their number, not Google's
AgentLaunch paces at 10 submissions a day by default and never more than 20, and the home page presents that as care: "Our limit discourages bulk blasts." The small print under it gives the game away: "This is our guardrail, not a Google-approved threshold." Their terms repeat it: the limits are "not a Google-approved threshold or a guarantee against spam classification."
What the cap does guarantee is time at your desk. Their docs: "A launch of 100 directories at the default pace takes about 10 days, plus however long directories take to review." That is ten days of Chrome left open and a Needs you list to clear. And the directories that matter run queues of their own: before it closed, Uneed's free line handed out dates up to five months away.
Spreading a launch out is sensible, and we do it too. We do not file your whole list on one day; it goes out across days, Uneed one day and StartupInspire the next. The difference is where the spreading happens: on our side, with nothing running on your computer and nobody waiting for you to solve anything.
The $149 licence is a server, not a service
Their $149 plan is the source code. You deploy it on Railway with "Node.js 24.14 or newer and Wasp 0.25.0" on your computer, then pay Railway for hosting and your AI provider for what every launch uses. The pricing card is short on help: "No setup support." And the self-hosted copy is exactly as automatic as the hosted one: "No, it works exactly like the hosted version." Same Chrome, same CAPTCHAs, same payments.
The directory data is where it gets thin. The pricing card promises "Catalog updates every 3 months, for good". The setup guide words it more carefully: "Directory catalog updates about every three months, for as long as AgentLaunch is maintained." Directories change their flows far more often than that.
Our $149 buys the opposite: All Directories on one project, every directory in our catalog and every one we add, submitted for you. We maintain the catalog every day and keep adding directories, and our terms bind us to at least 180 by the end of 2026 and 300 by the end of 2027, with a proportional refund if we miss.
For agencies: resell a service, not a Chrome window
The self-host licence is sold to agencies, with a condition that matters: "You can launch your clients' products, but you can't resell the code or give clients their own logins." So every client launch is still a browser you keep open and a queue of CAPTCHAs and payments that somebody on your team clears.
Our white label is built for agencies that resell. The badge on your client's site carries your agency's name, link and colour, and the client report never names us. It is full automation all the way through, and $180 covers 3 clients of 100 directories each, submitted for you, not a licence to run the machine yourself.
Forms keep changing. That is our problem, not yours.
Directories rework their steps, their image rules and their description limits constantly. AgentLaunch's answer: the extension reads the live form, and "If it cannot continue, it saves a step for you to resolve." For images, their docs suggest you "Add your own screenshots if the imported ones aren't good enough."
With us, a changed form is our work. We cut your images to each site's format, fit each description to its length and rules and keep the automation current every day, because a form that changed on Tuesday is one we are filing for other customers on Wednesday.
394 directories against our 160, on purpose
Their directory page reads "You're seeing 50 of 394 verified directories." A directory gets in when it "has a usable listing route and clears our quality floor", and their own blog then counts how many of those need you: 101 want your badge, 66 are paid only and 22 put bot protection in front of the form.
Our catalog has 160, and a directory joins it only when it runs end to end with nothing left for you: the sign-up, the image sizes, the description limits, the badge and the paid tier. We do not pad it with directories we cannot finish for you, and our terms put the count in writing: "we count only directories we actively submit to."
The nuances are the whole job. Hand an AI agent a directory that wants a 16:9 screenshot under 500 KB and it goes looking for brew install imagemagick. We built that step, and every one like it, into our own automation instead.
What they get right
Quite a lot. A listing only counts as Live once a public URL is recorded, and each directory gets its own copy rather than one pasted paragraph.
The free extension shows fees, badge rules and requirements before you buy anything, and the catalog sample prints Domain Rating and traffic. Both plans are one-time. For a developer who wants to drive it from Claude Code over MCP, it is a well-made tool.
So which should you pick?
If you want to run the launch yourself and you are happy to keep Chrome open and clear a Needs you list for a week or two, AgentLaunch does that well, and $39 is a fair price for the software.
If you want the listings, their own blog has already answered: "You want zero involvement ... a done-for-you service." Ours starts at $29, includes the paid tier on nine directories and hands you nothing to solve. Half-automation looks cheaper until you count the CAPTCHAs, the fees and the evenings.
AgentLaunch alternative: the short answer
AgentLaunch is $39 of software that fills forms in your Chrome while you solve the CAPTCHAs, add the badges and pay the directories. Submitator does the whole job from $29, with the paid tier on nine directories included and nothing left for you to do after you pay.
Their $39 buys software you operate. Our $29 buys 30 submissions, done.
One payment and nothing after it: you tick the directories, and we handle the sign-ups from dedicated emails, the CAPTCHAs, every badge through one component and the paid tier on nine directories.
$39 you operate, or 30 done for $29.
AgentLaunch fills directory forms in your Chrome, which has to stay open, and hands you every CAPTCHA, two-factor code, badge and payment; directory fees are on top, and purchases are generally final. Submitator is $29 for 30 directories, $49 for 60, $79 for 100 or $149 for all of them, submitted for you from dedicated emails, one badge component keeping every badge live and the paid tier on nine directories in the plan. All the submission tools compared.
FAQ
Is AgentLaunch fully automatic?
No, and it answers that itself: “Is this fully automatic? No, and that's on purpose.” It is a Chrome extension that fills directory forms in your own browser and hands you the CAPTCHAs, two-factor codes, payments and anything it cannot finish. Its terms add: “It is not a promise of fully unattended operation.” Submitator is fully automated from your side: you pay, you pick the directories and nothing more is needed from you.
How much does AgentLaunch cost?
$39 once for one product on their hosted service, or $149 once for the Self-Host License, which is the source code to run on your own Railway account with your own AI key. Directory fees are separate on both, and another product needs another $39. Submitator is $29 for 30 directories, $49 for 60, $79 for 100 or $149 for every directory we have and every one we add, submitted for you.
Is AgentLaunch cheaper than Submitator?
Not once you count what each price buys. Their entry price is $39 and ours is $29, and theirs buys software you operate while ours buys the submissions. Directory fees then land on you with them and not with us: their own catalog lists Uneed's “Skip the line” at $14.99, and our plans include the paid tier on nine directories, Uneed among them. Their own blog prices a done-for-you service at “Usually $140 to $499 per product”. Ours starts at $29.
Do I need to keep Chrome open with AgentLaunch?
Yes. Their FAQ: “Do I need to leave Chrome open? Yes, while submissions are running. If Chrome closes or the extension disconnects, the queue waits.” The extension is not on the Chrome Web Store; you load it with Developer mode turned on, and Safari and Firefox are not supported. With Submitator nothing runs on your computer.
Who pays the directory fees with AgentLaunch?
You do, on each directory's own site. Their FAQ: “you pay each directory on its own site; the extension never enters card details.” When a directory asks for payment, the launch stops and waits for you. With Submitator there is no payment step: the paid tier on nine directories is already in the plan, including Uneed, TryLaunch and StartupInspire, and two of the nine, AffyList and AlterBase, are directories we own.
What happens with badge directories on AgentLaunch?
You add their badges to your site yourself. Their docs: “Picking one means you agree to add it.” Their blog counts 101 directories across their catalog that want “A badge or link on your site in exchange for a free listing”. Submitator installs one badge component once and keeps every directory's badge live, so no badge is ever a job for you.
Which email does AgentLaunch sign up with?
Yours. It uses the Google or GitHub account signed in to your Chrome, or signs up with your launch email and a unique password per directory, and to confirm those emails you can connect Gmail through Composio, where, in their words, “Google's consent screen shows full Gmail access”. Every directory gets your address. We sign up from dedicated emails we create, on domains unconnected to Submitator, so the directory newsletters and upsells never reach you. The logins and passwords we create for you are yours to control; on some directories we file through pooled accounts instead, which is how we negotiate a lower price with the directory on your behalf, and any listing can be changed through our Request changes button.
Why does AgentLaunch limit submissions to 20 a day?
Their words: “This is our guardrail, not a Google-approved threshold.” The default is 10 a day, so 100 directories take about 10 days with your Chrome open, and many directories queue you anyway: until Uneed closed its free line, their own note on it promised “an assigned date up to 5 months out”. We spread submissions across days too, Uneed one day and StartupInspire the next, but on our side, with nothing running on your computer.
What is the AgentLaunch Self-Host License?
$149 once for the source code. You deploy it on Railway, pay Railway and your AI provider, keep Chrome open and still solve the CAPTCHAs, and the directory data updates “about every three months, for as long as AgentLaunch is maintained.” Agencies may launch clients' products but “can't resell the code or give clients their own logins.” Our $149 is All Directories, done for you, and our white label lets you resell our service under your own brand.
Why does AgentLaunch list more directories than Submitator?
Because it counts differently. Their directory page shows 50 of 394 before you buy, and their blog counts 101 that want your badge, 66 that are paid only and 22 behind bot protection, all of which come back to you. Our catalog has 160, and a directory joins it only when it runs end to end with nothing left for you, from the image sizes to the paid tier; our terms count only directories we actively submit to.
Does AgentLaunch offer refunds?
Only if the product fails completely. Their terms: “Purchases are generally final. We offer a refund if AgentLaunch itself completely stops working for you.” A directory that rejects you, changes its form or needs your help does not count. Our refunds follow the 30-day conditions in our terms, and on the 30, 60 and 100 plans a rejection is swapped for another directory you choose.
Is AgentLaunch legit?
Yes. It is a real product with honest documentation, and its terms name who runs it: “AgentLaunch operates under Cracked Collective, an unregistered business based in India. The individual service provider is Pruthvi Raj.” The docs are candid about what it will not do, which is the reason this page can quote them so much.
What is the best AgentLaunch alternative?
If you want the listings rather than a second job, Submitator: $29 for 30 directories, $49 for 60, $79 for 100 or $149 once for every directory in our catalog and every one we add. You pick the directories and pay once; we sign up from dedicated emails, handle the CAPTCHAs, keep every badge live through one component and include the paid tier on nine directories.
Comparing options? See the others.
Their $39 buys software you operate. Our $29 buys 30, done.
No Chrome to keep open and no payment step: we submit from dedicated emails, one component keeps every badge live and the paid tier on nine directories comes with the plan.