How to Submit to AI Listing Tool ($29-99)
AI Listing Tool (ailistingtool.com) is a young AI tools directory (domain registered June 25, 2025) selling manually reviewed listings in three one-time tiers: $29 Fast Track, $79 Featured Spotlight and a $99 Expert Review Package, with 24-hour approval, social promotion and a permanent page. There's no free tier, by its own words, and the loudest promise on the site is a homepage section headed "Do-Follow Backlinks — Not NoFollow".
This review adds what the pricing cards don't. The $29 and $79 stickers are, to the dollar, the prices of Submitator's 30 and 100-directory plans, so the comparison is unusually clean. And the dofollow headline didn't survive view-source: on all ten live listings we inspected in July 2026, the outbound link to the tool's site carries nofollow. Add a sitemap holding 59 tool pages under a "10,000+ AI tools listed" banner, a 2024 origin story on a 2025 domain and a credit-not-refund policy, and the picture fills in.
Same $29: one listing on one site there, 30 directories you pick here. Same $79: they feature you on one homepage; we submit you to 100 directories, each with its DR on screen in the dashboard, dofollow as the stated focus, badges handled. Their $99 top tier is $20 more than our biggest plan.
AI Listing Tool at a glance
| Feature | AI Listing Tool |
|---|---|
| What it is | AI tools directory, domain since June 2025 |
| Domain Rating | Not tracked on FrogDR |
| Plans | $29 / $79 / $99 one-time |
| Free tier | None ('does not offer a free listing tier') |
| Link promise | 'Do-Follow Backlinks — Not NoFollow' |
| Links found | Nofollow on all 10 pages we checked |
| Size | 59 tool pages in sitemap; banner says 10,000+ |
| Refund | Credit toward resubmission only |
Plans per ailistingtool.com/submit-a-tool, July 2026: 'Fast Track Listing' $29 ('24-hour guaranteed approval', 'Permanent listing in our directory', 'Social media promotion'), 'Featured Spotlight' $79 ('Featured placement on homepage', 'Enhanced listing with badges', 'Newsletter mention'), 'Expert Review Package' $99 ('Professional tool review by our team'), all one-time USD via Lemon Squeezy; archived copies show Fast Track at $49 and the review package at $129 in September 2025 (prices were cut, no strikethrough theater today). No free tier, verbatim: 'AIListingTool does not offer a free listing tier.' The homepage promises 'Do-Follow Backlinks — Not NoFollow' and its FAQ says every plan includes one; on the ten live listings we inspected, the outbound link to the tool's site carried nofollow plus a ?ref=ailistingtool.com parameter (sampled listings appear operator-seeded rather than confirmed paid customers; we could not purchase a listing to test the paid flow; the rel attribute is theirs to change). The banner claims '10,000+ AI tools listed', the About page '5,000+', and the sitemap exposes 59 tool pages; audience figures ('100K+ monthly visitors', '30,000+ founders', '5.0 rating', '$10M+ Revenue generated') are the site's own, with no named reviewers found. The only remedy offered is 'a full credit toward a revised resubmission' if a submission is rejected; the Terms contain no refund clause and name no jurisdiction, and carry 'Effective date: January 1, 2024' on a domain registered June 25, 2025. Per its site when last checked (July 2026).
How to submit to AI Listing Tool, step by step
- 1
Gather the assets
Their requirements grid asks for a tool name, the website URL ('not a social media profile'), a 150-500 word description, primary and secondary categories, your pricing model, 5-10 key-feature bullets and screenshots or a logo.
- 2
Pick a tier and pay
Choose $29, $79 or $99, create an account and pay through Lemon Squeezy. There's no free path ('AIListingTool does not offer a free listing tier.') and no cash-refund policy behind the checkout.
- 3
Manual review, 12 to 24 hours
'Most submissions are approved within 24 hours of payment.' If a submission doesn't meet the quality bar, the stated remedy is 'a full credit toward a revised resubmission', a credit, not money back.
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Listing goes live
You get the live URL, a 'Basic analytics dashboard' and their social-promotion push; indexing is quoted at 48 to 72 hours. For calibration: on the ten live listings we inspected in July 2026, the outbound link carried nofollow; those pages look operator-seeded, and we couldn't buy a listing to test whether a paid one differs.
"Do-Follow Backlinks — Not NoFollow", checked
The claim isn't buried; it's a homepage section heading, and the FAQ doubles down: "Yes. Every plan includes a do-follow backlink from your tool's listing page to your website." The site even positions itself against rivals on exactly this axis, noting that most big directories nofollow their links. So we pulled the raw HTML of ten live listings. On every one, the outbound link to the tool's own website carries rel with nofollow, wrapped in a ?ref=ailistingtool.com tracking parameter. The fair hedges: the listings we sampled look operator-seeded rather than confirmed paid customers, we didn't buy a listing to test the paid flow, and the rel attribute is theirs to flip at any time. But a headline that says "Not NoFollow" sits directly above pages that say nofollow, and until a paid listing proves otherwise, the burden is on the seller.
AI Listing Tool pricing: same $29, same $79, different products
The pricing is where this comparison gets unusually clean, because the numbers match ours exactly. Their $29 Fast Track buys one listing on one young directory. Submitator's $29 buys submissions to 30 directories you pick, about $0.97 per directory. Their $79 Featured Spotlight buys a homepage slot on that same directory. Submitator's $79 buys 100 directories, $0.79 per door. Their $99 Expert Review adds a review article on the same domain and costs $20 more than our biggest plan. Fair credit on the pricing itself: archived copies show Fast Track at $49 and the review at $129 in September 2025, so the current prices are genuine cuts, with no strikethrough theater. The sticker is honest. The question is what one door should cost.
10,000 tools, 5,000 tools or 59 pages
The banner says "10,000+ AI tools listed". The About page says "5,000+ AI tools launched". The site's own sitemap exposes 59 tool pages, alongside roughly 372 blog posts and 16 comparison pages. Those three numbers can't all describe the same directory. The audience claims sit in the same category: "100K+ monthly visitors", "180+ countries", "30,000+ founders", a five-star rating with no individually named reviewer anywhere on the site, and "$10M+ Revenue generated" on the About page of a directory whose domain is barely a year old. We take none of them as fact, and the domain is untracked on FrogDR, so there's no independent Domain Rating to weigh the listing against either.
Born in 2024, registered in 2025
The Terms open with "Effective date: January 1, 2024" and the About page says the project was born in 2024. The domain record says ailistingtool.com was created June 25, 2025. The footer signs "© 2026 AIListingTool, Inc.", but no person, founder or verifiable company behind the name appears anywhere on the site and the whois is privacy-shielded. The refund story is short: there isn't one. The only remedy anywhere is "a full credit toward a revised resubmission", available only if they reject you, and the Terms contain no refund clause and name no governing jurisdiction. One more artifact from the code: a Lemon Squeezy API key sits exposed in the site's client-side JavaScript. For balance, the parts that check out: the checkout is real, the manual-review pitch is consistent and listings are genuinely one-time.
One door or a hundred, for identical money
Which leaves the math this guide exists for. AI Listing Tool prices its tiers at exactly our numbers, so nobody has to argue about budgets, only about what the money buys. $29 there is one listing on one young, untracked-DR directory whose live pages nofollowed the outbound link on all ten we checked; $29 here is 30 directories you pick in the dashboard, each with its DR on screen. $79 there is a featured slot on the same single site; $79 here is 100 directories with dofollow links as the stated focus (DR 40 to 90 directories), badges installed and kept live (that's what unlocks Startup Fame at DR 83, Fazier at DR 81 and Turbo0 at DR 79), the whole batch out in 24 to 48 hours with a live link per completed listing, rejections credited +1 and a 30-day money-back refund instead of a resubmission credit. Same money. Different number of doors.
| Feature | AI Listing Tool | Submitator |
|---|---|---|
| At $29 | One listing, one site | 30 directories you pick |
| At $79 | Homepage spotlight, same site | 100 directories you pick |
| Links | 'Do-Follow' promised; nofollow found | Dofollow focus, DR 40–90 |
| Delivery | '24-hour guaranteed approval' | 24–48h, whole batch |
| Refund | Credit toward resubmission | 30-day money-back |
Submitator does not submit to AI Listing Tool; the comparison is what identical money buys. The Links cell compresses our July 2026 check: the homepage promises 'Do-Follow Backlinks — Not NoFollow' and the FAQ says every plan includes one, while all ten live listings we inspected carried nofollow on the outbound link to the tool's site; sampled listings appear operator-seeded rather than confirmed paid customers, we could not purchase a listing to test the paid flow and the rel attribute is theirs to change. Submitator's $29 plan covers 30 directories you pick and the $79 plan covers 100 (60 for $49 in between), badges handled, live link per completed listing, rejections credited +1, 30-day money-back refund.
Your $29 already buys thirty doors.
Pick your 30 in the dashboard with DR on screen, badges handled, batch submitted in 24 to 48 hours, live links as listings complete. One-time, plans up to 100 directories.
The banner says "Not NoFollow". The pages say nofollow.
Ten out of ten live listings we checked link out nofollow (operator-seeded pages; we couldn't test a paid one; rel is theirs to change), under a 10,000-tools banner over a sitemap holding 59 tool pages, with a resubmission credit where a refund would go. Their $29 and $79 match ours to the dollar. The products don't.
FAQ
How much does AI Listing Tool cost?
Three one-time tiers: 'Fast Track Listing' at $29 (24-hour approval, permanent listing, social promotion), 'Featured Spotlight' at $79 (homepage placement, priority in categories, 'Enhanced listing with badges', newsletter mention) and 'Expert Review Package' at $99 (adds a review article by their team). Credit where due: archived copies show the prices were cut, not inflated; Fast Track was $49 and the review package $129 in September 2025, with no fake strikethrough anchors today. All checkout runs through Lemon Squeezy and requires an account.
Are AI Listing Tool backlinks dofollow?
That's the loudest promise on the site: a homepage section headed 'Do-Follow Backlinks — Not NoFollow', and an FAQ answering 'Yes. Every plan includes a do-follow backlink from your tool's listing page to your website.' What we found in July 2026: on all ten live listings we inspected, the outbound link to the tool's own website carries rel with nofollow, plus a ?ref=ailistingtool.com tracking parameter. The hedges: the listings we sampled look operator-seeded rather than confirmed paid customers, we couldn't buy a listing to test the paid flow and the rel attribute is theirs to change. But as of our check, the live pages do the opposite of the headline.
Is AI Listing Tool free to submit to?
No, and the site says so plainly: 'AIListingTool does not offer a free listing tier. Paid plans start at $29 for the Fast Track Listing, which includes a permanent directory page, do-follow backlink, and social promotion. This is a one-time fee — your listing never expires and never requires renewal.' The Free/Freemium/Paid field on the form describes your tool's pricing, not a free listing option.
How big is AI Listing Tool's audience?
Its own numbers disagree with each other and with its sitemap. The banner says '10,000+ AI tools listed', the About page says '5,000+ AI tools launched', and the site's own sitemap exposes 59 tool pages (plus about 372 blog posts and 16 comparison pages). The reach figures ('100K+ monthly visitors', '180+ countries', '30,000+ founders', a '5.0 rating' with no individually named reviewers anywhere and '$10M+ Revenue generated' on the About page) are all the site's own claims; we found no independent confirmation for any of them, and the domain isn't tracked on FrogDR, so no independent Domain Rating exists to quote either.
Is AI Listing Tool legit?
The checkable facts: the domain was registered June 25, 2025, while the Terms carry 'Effective date: January 1, 2024' and the About page says 'Born in 2024', dates the domain record contradicts. The footer claims '© 2026 AIListingTool, Inc.' but no person, founder or verifiable company behind the name appears anywhere and the whois is privacy-shielded. There's no cash refund: the only remedy is 'a full credit toward a revised resubmission', offered only if they reject you, and the Terms contain no refund clause and name no governing jurisdiction. On the credit side: the checkout is real, the manual-review model is stated clearly, listings are genuinely one-time with no renewal and prices were cut from 2025, not theatrically discounted.
Does Submitator submit to AI Listing Tool?
No, Submitator doesn't submit to AI Listing Tool. The comparison is the point, because the prices match to the dollar: their $29 buys one listing on one site; Submitator's $29 buys submissions to 30 directories you pick in the dashboard with each directory's DR on screen. Their $79 buys a featured slot on that same one site; Submitator's $79 covers 100 directories (the catalog runs up to DR 93), dofollow links as the stated focus, badges installed and kept live, the whole batch in 24 to 48 hours with a live link per completed listing, rejections credited +1 and a 30-day money-back refund. Their $99 top tier costs $20 more than our biggest plan and still touches one domain.
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Same money. A hundred more doors.
100 directories you pick with DR on screen, dofollow focus, badges handled, live links as listings complete. $79 one-time, 30-day money-back.