How to Submit to AlterBase, From the Team That Runs It
Written by Submitator, which owns AlterBase: we bought it in September 2026 and run it today. Read this as the owner's guide to its own form rather than a neutral review.
AlterBase is a software alternatives directory: every tool on it is filed beside the product it replaces. Ahrefs rates the domain 48, and it lists 140+ tools across 80+ comparison pages.
Submitting is free: an account, then seven fields with four of them required. Submitator also submits here as part of its catalog, and what follows is that same form done by hand. Six of the fields are what you would expect. The seventh, Alternative To, decides which comparison page your listing stands on.
The Alternative To box. Type the name of a comparison page exactly as that page spells it and your listing joins it: ScreenStudio is one word, Shadcn UI has a space and the analytics page is called Analytics. The same answer goes into your listing page's title. And switching Is it Free? off adds two required fields, a price and a billing period, which stay hidden until you flip it.
AlterBase submission at a glance
| Feature | AlterBase (alterbase.co) |
|---|---|
| Owner | Submitator, since September 2026 |
| Where | Your dashboard, after signing in |
| Account | Required: Google, GitHub or email |
| Fields | Seven, four of them required |
| Alternative To | Free text, matched to a page by name |
| One-Liner | 10 to 150 chars, the only copy you write |
| Logo | Optional, under 2 MB |
| Review | By a person, within 4 weeks |
| Paid tiers | $59.90 Premium skips the queue |
| Links | Followed on every listing page |
| Domain Rating | 48 (Ahrefs) |
Written by the owner: Submitator bought AlterBase in September 2026 and operates alterbase.co. Per alterbase.co, its sitemap, every listing and comparison page the sitemap names, its home page and /advertise, read on 13 September 2026, and per AlterBase's own source for everything behind the login: the submission form's fields, limits and help text, the Pending tooltip in the dashboard, the Launch Now dialog and the badge dialog. The Domain Rating of 48 is the Ahrefs number, looked up through submitator.com/domain-rating-checker on the same day. The catalog count is a census of the sitemap: 144 /tool/ URLs with 141 of them serving a live listing page, plus 108 comparison URLs under /alternatives/, 86 of which list at least one tool. The twelve names in the list below are the comparison pages the home page links to; ten of them are also in the footer of every page. The link audit is a census rather than a sample: across all 141 live listing pages, none of the 282 Visit Website anchors, two per page, has a rel attribute, and a fetch of every one of those pages under a Googlebot user agent returned the same markup. Every live listing page carries index, follow and a self-canonical. The optional Twitter/X field adds a link to the X profile, counted separately. A comparison page lists the tools whose Alternative To answer matches its name. Every listing is published by hand from the admin panel. Premium and Sponsor are priced as printed on /advertise, $59.90 and $99.90 under an Early Bird banner against list prices of $119 and $220, and the page also lists a newsletter placement; Launch Now is the $9.90 option shown beside a pending listing. AlterBase sits in the Submitator catalog next to every other directory: 30 directories for $29, 60 for $49 or 100 for $79, paid once, each one picked by you in the dashboard with its DR on screen, badges installed and kept live, a live link sent back per completed listing, a rejection credited as +1 directory and a 30-day refund policy on the conditions in our terms.
Type one of these, spelled exactly as shown, and your card joins a comparison page the AlterBase home page links to.
- Buffer
- Stripe
- Claude Code
- ScreenStudio
- Vercel
- Shadcn UI
- Chrome
- Product Hunt
- Analytics
- Cursor
- Linktree
- Xnapper
How to submit to AlterBase, step by step
- 1
Make a free account
Google and GitHub take one click. The email route asks for a first name, a last name and a password, then sends a confirmation link you follow before the dashboard opens. Signed out, Submit Your Tool in the header brings you here first.
- 2
Pick your Alternative To before you open the form
Alternative To asks which popular tool yours replaces, and your listing joins the comparison page with that name. Open alterbase.co/alternatives and copy the name exactly as the page prints it, spaces and capitals included.
- 3
Fill in the name and the URL
The name takes 2 to 100 characters and also becomes your address on the site: lowercased, with spaces and punctuation turned into hyphens, plus a short random suffix if that address is already taken. The URL field wants the bare domain, since https:// is printed inside the box and added for you.
- 4
Write the one-liner, because it is the only copy you get
10 characters minimum and 150 maximum, and it does three jobs: the text on your card, the line under your product name and the meta description of your listing page, used word for word. Say what the product does in the first few words. The longer description is written and the screenshot captured after you submit.
- 5
Set the price and the logo
Is it Free? is a toggle that starts switched on. Switch it off and two required fields appear: an amount and a billing period of Per Month, Per Year or Lifetime/One-time. What you pick prints on your card in the grid. The logo is optional, under 2 MB and PNG, JPG, GIF, WebP or SVG; send a square one, because the listing shows it in a square frame.
- 6
Submit for Review, then watch the Pending badge
A toast confirms the submission and the tool lands in your dashboard with a yellow Pending badge. Hover it for the review window, within 4 weeks, and note that a person publishes every listing by hand. If you would rather not wait, Launch Now beside the pending listing or Premium on the advertise page skips the review queue.
The box that decides where your listing is filed
Most directories file you under a category picked from a list. AlterBase files you beside the product you replace, which is how people search for software: alternatives to Buffer, alternatives to Stripe, alternatives to Vercel. Each comparison page is its own indexable URL in the sitemap, so the name you type decides which of those searches your listing stands in.
The busiest pages are the twelve the home page links to, and ten of them sit in the footer of every page on the domain. Match one of those names exactly and your card joins a page the whole site points at. Your listing page names that tool in its title as well, so the choice follows you into search results too.
One sentence, and the rest is written for you
There is no description field on this form. The help text says a detailed description will be generated automatically, and it is: when you press Submit for Review, the longer copy on your listing page is written from your product name, your one-liner and the tool you replace. A screenshot of your site is captured for the page too.
That puts the weight on 150 characters. Your one-liner is the card text, the line under the product name and the meta description of the page, copied across without editing, and it is one of the inputs the longer write-up starts from. Lead with what the product does, not with an adjective.
What lands on your page
A followed link, twice over. Each listing page renders its Visit Website button once per layout, and both copies point at your site as plain followed links. Every listing page is indexable, canonical to itself and listed in the sitemap.
Two details alongside that. The link to your site carries a ref=alterbase tag, so the visits it sends arrive labelled in your own analytics. And if you fill in the optional Twitter/X field, the page adds a second followed link, pointing at your X profile.
The badge, and the check it buys
Every tool in your dashboard has a Get Verified button. It opens a dialog with a light or dark badge and the embed code already written, and asks for one thing: put the badge on your website's homepage, then press Verify Badge. Once the badge has loaded on your site, the listing gets a blue checkmark.
Nothing about the listing or the link depends on it, so it is genuinely optional. It is also the part of directory work that stacks up: every directory in a batch that asks for a badge is another snippet in your repository that has to survive every deploy. Submitator installs badges from one component and keeps every one of them live, with no commit per directory.
Free, or $59.90 to skip the queue
The free listing has no payment step and nothing in the form is gated. What it trades is time: the dashboard puts the review window at four weeks, and a person reads every listing before it goes live.
The advertise page sells placement on top of that. Premium, currently $59.90, skips the review queue, adds the verified badge and features the tool on the home page and the browse page for 30 days. Sponsor, currently $99.90, goes further with a spot on every tool page and the sponsor banner across the site. Paying changes where your tool is shown, not the link on your listing page.
If speed is the only thing you want, Launch Now sits beside a pending listing in your dashboard at $9.90 and skips the queue.
Who runs AlterBase
We do. Submitator bought AlterBase in September 2026, and it now runs alongside our submission service. The free listing and the followed link stay as they are. In the Submitator catalog it is one directory among the rest, with its Domain Rating printed on the card like every other.
AlterBase is one of the directories we have bought this year. If you built one that ranks and would rather hand it over, here is how we buy directories.
$0 here. $29 for the thirty you have not got to yet.
One payment. Every directory is named in your dashboard with its Domain Rating on the card, and you tick the ones you want before anything is filed.
Worth doing?
Yes, and the reasoning is short. Nothing is charged, a person reviews the listing, the link on your page is followed and the page itself is indexable, canonical to itself and in the sitemap, on a domain Ahrefs rates 48. The alternatives framing is a bonus, because a page built around the tool you compete with is a page people search for by name.
The two answers that matter here, the tool you replace and a 150-character line about what yours does, come up again on the other alternatives directories in our catalog. Get them right once and they carry across the whole batch.
Spell the page name exactly.
AlterBase is Submitator's own alternatives directory, rated 48 by Ahrefs: free to list, behind a login, seven fields with four required. Alternative To files you on the comparison page with that exact name. The one-liner is 150 characters and the only copy you write. Every listing link is followed. Free here, and thirty directories are $29 through us. The whole catalog.
FAQ
Who owns AlterBase?
Submitator does. We bought AlterBase in September 2026 and run it alongside our submission service. Listings stay free, a person reviews each one before it is published and the link on every listing page is followed.
Where is the AlterBase submission form?
Behind a free account. Submit Your Tool in the header sends you to sign in first, and the form itself lives in your dashboard. Google and GitHub sign you in with one click. The email route asks for a first name, a last name and a password, then sends a confirmation link you follow before you can go on.
What should you type in the AlterBase Alternative To box?
The name of the comparison page you want to join, spelled the way that page spells it. The pages with the most company are the twelve linked from the AlterBase home page: Buffer, Stripe, Claude Code, ScreenStudio, Vercel, Shadcn UI, Chrome, Product Hunt, Analytics, Cursor, Linktree and Xnapper. Whatever you type also goes into the title of your listing page, as your product name followed by Alternative to and that name.
Does spelling matter on the AlterBase form?
Yes, because the match is by name. Copy the name from alterbase.co/alternatives instead of typing it from memory.
Is AlterBase free to submit to?
Yes. The form takes no payment. The advertise page sells placement on top of the free listing: Premium, currently $59.90, skips the review queue, adds the verified badge and features the tool on the home and browse pages for 30 days. Sponsor, currently $99.90, adds a spot on every tool page and a banner shown site-wide.
How long does AlterBase take to approve a listing?
The yellow Pending badge in your dashboard gives the window: Will be reviewed and approved within 4 weeks. A person reads every listing before it is published. Premium on the advertise page, or Launch Now at $9.90 beside a pending listing in the dashboard, skips that queue.
Are AlterBase links dofollow?
Yes. The Visit Website link on every listing page is followed, and the page is indexable, canonical to itself and in the sitemap. The link carries a ref=alterbase tag, and filling in the optional Twitter/X field adds a second followed link, pointing at your X profile. Paying changes where your tool is shown, not the link on your listing page.
How long should the AlterBase one-liner be?
Between 10 and 150 characters, and it is the only sentence you write. It becomes your card text in the grid, the line under your product name and the meta description of your listing page, word for word. The longer description is generated after you submit, from your product name, your one-liner and the tool you replace, so a clear one-liner makes a clear page.
Does AlterBase require a badge?
No. The badge is optional and earns a blue checkmark on the listing, not the listing itself. Get Verified in your dashboard opens a light or dark badge with the embed code written for you. Put it on your homepage, press Verify Badge and the checkmark appears once the badge has loaded. Submitator installs badges like this one and keeps them live, with no commit from you.
Does Submitator submit to AlterBase?
Yes. It is our own directory and it sits in our catalog like any other, with its Domain Rating on the card, so you pick it or skip it in the dashboard along with the rest. Thirty directories run $29 one-time with us, and every one of them is named before you choose.
More submit-to guides.
AlterBase is free. The other twenty-nine cost $29, together.
One payment, each directory named with its Domain Rating on the card before you choose it, badges installed and kept live where one is wanted and a rejection swapped for another directory.