How to Submit Your Tool to Best AI Tools, and What the Suggestion Form Actually Wants
Best AI Tools is a large AI directory: 2,929 tool pages across 350 categories, 81 curated best-of lists and 643 news posts. Ahrefs rates the domain 30. Getting in is free and takes one short page called the Tool Suggestion Form.
The form is where this one gets interesting. Only your name and your email are required. The tool name, its website and the pitch are all optional, which means nothing the form marks as required is about your product at all.
Name and Email carry the asterisk. Name of Tool, Tool Website and Why Should this Tool be Added? do not. Fill all three anyway, and write the last one as a real pitch: it is the only free text in the form and the only place to say why an editor should spend a slot on you rather than on the next suggestion in the pile.
Best AI Tools submission at a glance
| Feature | Best AI Tools |
|---|---|
| What it is | An AI directory with a news desk |
| Where | /tool-suggestion-form |
| The form | 5 fields, 2 required |
| Required | Your name and your email |
| Optional | Tool name, URL, the pitch |
| Cost | Free to suggest |
| Catalog | 2,929 tools, 350 categories |
| Tool pages edited | 1 of 2,929 since 31 March |
| Editorial | 81 curated best-of lists |
| Visit button | Internal href, 2,929 of 2,929 |
| Your socials | Linked direct on 2,547 |
| Domain | DR 30 on Ahrefs |
Per bestaitools.com, its robots.txt, its llms.txt, /contact-us/, /media-partnerships/ and every tool page in its index, read on 20 August 2026. Domain Rating is Ahrefs' figure via submitator.com/domain-rating-checker; no second provider was queried. No listing was filed for this write-up and no payment was made; the five form fields and their required markers are read from a screenshot of the live Tool Suggestion Form, whose URL is taken from the Suggest a Tool link in the site footer. The site is WordPress with All in One SEO Pro and FlyingPress behind Cloudflare. robots.txt allows crawling except /wp-admin/, /wp-login.php, internal search, /home/ and /go/. llms.txt is a full site index generated by the SEO plugin and lists 2,929 entries under AI Tools, 350 under Service Categories, 81 under Top Lists and 175 events, each tool entry carrying a one-line What is X description. All 2,929 tool pages were fetched: a first pass returned 2,527 and rate limiting cost the rest, so the 402 misses were refetched and all 402 recovered, giving a complete base. On every one of the 2,929 the hero call to action is an anchor of class tool-hero-cta pointing at an address on bestaitools.com, 2,923 of them under /home/{slug} and six under another internal path of which four are /go/{slug}; none points straight at the product. Every /home/ path followed returns a 301 to the product with the ref parameter carried through, among them /home/10web to 10web.io plus /home/claude, /home/gemini, /home/grok and /home/11x, and the response header names Pretty Link Lite 4.0.15 as the engine; /home/notion-ai returns 404 because that listing routes under /go/ instead. Both /home/ and /go/ are disallowed in robots.txt. In a random sample of 14 of those redirects the destination was the product's own address with no affiliate marker beyond the ref parameter, so nothing is claimed here about monetisation. Every one of the 2,929 tool URLs carries a lastmod in the sitemap: the earliest is 25 October 2025 and the latest 30 June 2026, exactly one has a date after 31 March 2026 and the next most recent is 12 March, while the post sitemap listed 643 posts and carried a lastmod of the day this was read. 2,547 of the 2,929 pages carry at least one direct anchor to the tool's own social profiles and only 9 carry any nofollow on them. All 2,929 are their own canonical, all carry the same All in One SEO robots meta with no noindex directive, and all emit JSON-LD, with the product URL found in a sameAs array on the 2,527 checked for it and the sampled page carrying SoftwareApplication and FAQPage types. Category sizes are the counts printed on the site, among them General Use 728, Business Management 644, Marketing & Advertising 627, Image Generation & Editing 618, Coding & Development 514, Art & Creative Design 505, Interior & Architectural Design 37 and Health & Wellness 55; a tool can sit in more than one, so those counts sum to more than the catalog. The footer gives an address of 415 Mission Street, 37th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105 and a copyright line of 2026. No review time is published anywhere on the site, so none is quoted here. Submitator submits here as part of its catalog: $29 for 30 directories, $49 for 60 and $79 for 100, one-time, chosen by you in the dashboard with DR shown, a live link per completed listing, rejections credited back as +1 directory and a 30-day refund policy on the conditions in our terms.
How to submit to Best AI Tools, step by step
- 1
Open the Tool Suggestion Form
It lives at bestaitools.com/tool-suggestion-form and the footer links it as Suggest a Tool. There is nothing to pay.
- 2
Give your name and email, which are the required pair
Name is split into First and Last and both it and Email carry the red asterisk. These two are the only fields marked required, so treat them as the cost of entry rather than the submission itself, and use an address you read.
- 3
Fill Name of Tool and Tool Website even though you do not have to
Neither carries an asterisk. Leaving them empty is the one genuine mistake available on this form, because it hands an editor a suggestion with nothing to look at. Give the product name as you write it everywhere else and the URL you want a visitor to land on.
- 4
Write the pitch into Why Should this Tool be Added?
This is the only free text field and the only argument you get to make. Say what the tool does, who it is for and what makes it worth a slot, and name the category you belong in, since the catalog runs from General Use with 728 tools down to Interior & Architectural Design with 37.
- 5
Aim at the lists, not just the catalog
The site keeps 81 curated best-of lists at /list/, with titles like Best AI Tools for Writing Stories and Best AI Image Enlarger Tools. If your tool has an obvious roundup to belong to, say so in the pitch.
- 6
Send it and move on
The button reads Submit. No review time is published anywhere on the site, so file it and move on rather than waiting on a number nobody has given you.
What a listing gets you
A properly built page. All 2,929 tool pages are their own canonical, carry the site's standard robots meta with no noindex on it and emit JSON-LD, and on the 2,527 we checked for it the product URL sits in a sameAs array. On the page we read in full that JSON-LD includes SoftwareApplication and FAQPage blocks.
Your own accounts get linked out plainly too. Of the 2,929 tool pages, 2,547 carry at least one direct anchor to the tool's own Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook or TikTok, and only 9 pages carry any nofollow on those.
Where the visit button goes
Through the house rather than straight to you, and it is worth setting the expectation before you submit. On all 2,929 tool pages the visit button points at an address on bestaitools.com: 2,923 under /home/ and the other six under another internal path, four of those /go/. None of the 2,929 points straight at the product.
Those paths do reach you. Every one we followed answers with a 301 to the product with a ?ref=bestaitools.com parameter attached, and the response names a link-redirect plugin as the engine behind it. Both /home/ and /go/ are disallowed in robots.txt. So the sensible way to value this listing is as a page, a citation surface and a referral path rather than as a link, which is why the pitch field is where the effort belongs.
The catalog and the lists
Big and actively edited. 2,929 tool pages sit across 350 service categories, from General Use with 728 tools and Business Management with 644 down to Health & Wellness with 55 and Interior & Architectural Design with 37. A tool can belong to more than one, so naming your category in the pitch costs nothing and helps.
The part worth aiming at is the editorial layer: 81 curated lists at /list/, plus 175 event pages and a news section running to 643 posts. Those are the pages a reader is most likely to arrive on.
One thing to weigh on timing, since no turnaround is published. Every one of the 2,929 tool pages carries a last modified date, and only one of them has been touched since 31 March: the next most recent is 12 March, while the news sitemap was updated the day we read it. The tool side of this site moves in batches rather than continuously, so submit early and let it sit rather than watching for it.
We fill the three fields nobody makes you fill.
Name, URL and the pitch are optional here, and they are the whole submission. We write all five fields on this one and on twenty-nine more you pick from a rated list.
Best AI Tools review: is a listing worth it?
Yes, and the size is the argument. This is a large, actively edited directory on a DR 30 domain with a working news operation, structured data on every tool page and 81 curated lists to aim a pitch at. Submission is free and takes one page.
Set one expectation before you file it: every visit button on all 2,929 pages routes through the site's own domain, so value this for the page, the citation surface and the referral traffic. Spend the effort on the pitch field and it earns a place on a list of thirty.
Two required fields. Fill all five.
Free, one page at /tool-suggestion-form. Only your name and email are required, so the tool name, the URL and the pitch are the submission. 2,929 tools, 350 categories, 81 curated lists and a visit button that routes through the site's own domain on every page. The whole catalog.
FAQ
Is Best AI Tools free to submit to?
Yes. The route in is a page called the Tool Suggestion Form at bestaitools.com/tool-suggestion-form, linked from the footer as Suggest a Tool, and there is no price and no payment step in it.
What does the Best AI Tools suggestion form ask for?
Five things, and only two of them are required. Name, split into First and Last, and Email both carry the red asterisk. Name of Tool, Tool Website and the box headed Why Should this Tool be Added? do not. So nothing the form marks as required is about your product at all, which is the one thing to watch.
Which fields should you actually fill?
All five, and the last one properly. The two required fields are about you rather than your tool, so a submission that stops there tells the editor nothing to act on. Put the product name in, put the URL in, and treat Why Should this Tool be Added? as the pitch: it is the only free text you get and the only place to make the case.
Does a Best AI Tools listing link to your site?
Not directly, and it is worth knowing before you decide what you want from this one. We read all 2,929 tool pages: on every one the visit button points at an address on bestaitools.com rather than at your domain, 2,923 of them under /home/ and the remaining six under another internal path. Those paths answer with a 301 to the product with a ref parameter attached, on every one we followed, and they are driven by a link-redirect plugin that names itself in the response header. robots.txt disallows both /home/ and /go/.
So what does a listing actually give you?
A well-built page on a domain Ahrefs rates 30, plus the surfaces around it. The product URL goes into the page's JSON-LD as a sameAs entry on the 2,527 pages we checked for it, the page we read in full carries SoftwareApplication and FAQPage structured data, and your own social profiles are linked straight out: 2,547 of the 2,929 pages carry at least one direct link to the tool's Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube or the rest, and only 9 pages nofollow any of them.
How big is the Best AI Tools directory?
2,929 tool pages across 350 service categories, alongside 81 curated best-of lists and 175 event pages. The big categories are General Use with 728 tools, Business Management with 644 and Marketing & Advertising with 627, and the small ones go down to Interior & Architectural Design with 37 and Health & Wellness with 55.
What are the Best AI Tools top lists?
Curated roundups at /list/, 81 of them, with titles like Best AI Tools for Writing Stories and Best AI Image Enlarger Tools. If your tool has an obvious roundup to belong to, name it in the pitch: those pages are the ones a reader arrives on.
Does Best AI Tools publish a review time?
No turnaround is published anywhere on the site, so anyone quoting you a number is guessing. The form is a suggestion rather than a submission, in their own naming. Treat it as filed and spend the effort on the pitch instead.
Does Submitator submit to Best AI Tools?
Yes, it is on our list. This is one where the form invites a thin submission and the catalog rewards a full one, so the work is in the optional fields rather than the required ones. One payment, not a subscription: $29 for 30 directories, $49 for 60 and $79 for 100, with every DR shown before you choose. A rejection comes back as +1 directory, and there is a 30-day refund policy on the conditions in our terms.
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Thirty directories, each filed the way it wants.
$29 covers thirty on one payment, picked by you from a rated list with the DR beside each. Some want a logo, some want a repo, this one wants a paragraph nobody makes you write.