How to Submit to AllTopStartups (DR 59)

The price ladder: $39, $79, $99 (and a $29 leftover)

The submit page never prints a price in its copy; the numbers live inside three Stripe buy buttons, which resolve to $39 for the "DIRECTORY OPTION", $79 for the "PREMIUM OPTION" and $99 for the "Startup review premium option". Meanwhile the site's own directory subsite still carries an older, active button selling the same listing product at $29, so which price you pay depends on which of their pages you found. The archives fill in the direction of travel: $29 was the basic price through April 2026, $39 by July, and the review rose from $89 to $99 between November 2025 and February 2026. All of it one-time via Stripe, which deserves the credit it earns: no subscription, no fake countdown.

"Currently suspended" since January 2022

The free path exists as a sentence: "Getting featured is free but we have currently suspended free listings. We are reviewing backlog of hundreds of startup submissions. You can skip the waiting queue." That sentence, "currently" and all, appears verbatim in archived copies from January 2022, May 2024, July 2025 and today. Four and a half years is a long "currently". Functionally the site sells paid placement, and the copy around it shows its age in other ways: the page's title tag is stuffed with unrelated blogger-for-hire keywords, the copy explains that payment covers the effort to "punish and maintain listings", where it means publish, and a list announcing "a couple of things" numbers them 1 and 3.

"Backlink (DA 73)": the word that left

In July 2025 the pitch read "Dofollow backlink (DA 66)". Today it reads "Backlink (DA 73)": the dofollow promise removed, the self-reported Moz DA up seven points. For calibration, the independent tracker FrogDR puts alltopstartups.com at DR 59, a genuinely solid figure. To their credit in practice: on the seven recent posts and two directory listings we checked, the links to featured companies carried no nofollow and no rel=sponsored, so the links are followed as delivered, and none of the sampled posts carries a sponsored-content label. As everywhere, the rel attribute is theirs to change silently.

What the audience numbers say (all four of them)

The distribution pitch rests on reach, and the site quotes its own reach four ways on one page: "76K followers" in the premium bullets, "over 80K followers" in the review pitch, "Twitter Followers: 70,000+" in the stats block and "Getting in front of 50,000+ potential customers/users in a single week" in between. Page views are "Over 30,000" monthly on the submit page and "over 50,000+" on the advertise page. We take none of them as fact, and they don't agree with each other. What we could measure: the recent review we sampled is about 386 words, bylined by the founder. That's the product behind the $79 and $99 tiers, alongside the listing.

No purchase terms, a plugin's terms

The storefront runs on Stripe, but no purchase terms govern it: the site's only "Terms of Use" page is boilerplate from a content-locker plugin, opening with "This Terms of Use explains the operation principle of the Content Lockers on this website", and no refund or guarantee language appears anywhere on the submit page. An earlier version at least said "We reserve the right to not publish your startup for any reason."; that line is gone too. The footer does name a real publisher (Content Intelligence Media LLC) and the about page a real founder, which is more accountability than much of this market, and exactly why the missing paperwork stands out. Submitator's terms fit in a sentence: 30-day money-back, rejections credited +1.

Same $79, different universes

Now the math this guide exists for. Their $39 entry buys one listing in one directory; Submitator's $29 plan, $10 cheaper, submits you to 30 directories you pick in the dashboard, about $0.97 per directory against their $39 per door. Their $79 premium is the exact sticker of Submitator's top plan, and the same money buys different universes: one listing plus one ~400-word review on one DR-59 domain there, versus submissions to 100 directories you pick, each with its DR on screen (the catalog runs up to DR 93), dofollow links as the stated focus, badges installed and kept live where directories require them (that's what unlocks Startup Fame at DR 83, Fazier at DR 81 and Turbo0 at DR 79), 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 review flow costs $20 more than our biggest plan. Their 48-hour listing promise, to be fair, matches our pace; the difference is how many doors open when the clock stops.