The $19 Includes a GitHub Listing. That Repo Has Not Taken a Commit Since 13 July.
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Start with what works, because most of this one does. That AI Collection is a DR 43 directory with 3,203 tool pages, and it sells a listing for $19 promising, among other things, "a do-follow link to your website". We sampled 500 listings and fetched 498 of them: every single one points at the tool's own domain with rel="noopener", no redirector, no nofollow, and a canonical tag on all 498. The link is exactly what they say it is.
The same sentence sells three other things, and one of them is "featuring on the ‘Latest Additions’ section on the home page and GitHub page". That GitHub page is ai-collection/ai-collection, a genuinely large repository with 9,130 stars. Its most recent commit is dated 13 July 2026, which as this page is written is 45 days ago, and three pull requests adding tools have been sitting open since late July.
This is not a repo that was always slow. Over its 1,000 most recent commits, spanning 4 June to 13 July 2026, 498 of them add a tool, which is about 89 a week. Then it stops. The three tool submissions waiting in the queue were opened on 21 July, 27 July and 31 July, and none has merged. The repository is public, unarchived and still linked from every listing page.
That AI Collection submission at a glance
| Feature | That AI Collection |
|---|---|
| What it is | An AI-tool directory, 3,203 tool pages |
| Where | /submit |
| Publish | $19, the only price published |
| Promotion plans | "from $10", priced after you submit |
| Free route | None |
| Your link | Followed on 498 of 498 sampled |
| Via a redirector | None, on any of the 498 |
| Canonical | Present on 498 of 498 |
| Also promised | A GitHub listing, 9,130 stars |
| That repo's last commit | 13 July 2026 |
| Tool PRs waiting there | Three, opened 21 to 31 July |
| Editing your listing | By email, self-serve on the roadmap |
| Domain | DR 43 on Ahrefs |
| Thirty directories here | $29, every one named |
Per thataicollection.com, its robots.txt, /sitemaps/index.xml, /submit and the listing pages sampled here, all read on 27 August 2026, and the GitHub API for ai-collection/ai-collection read the same day. Domain Rating is Ahrefs' figure via submitator.com/domain-rating-checker; no second provider was queried. Nothing was submitted, no account was created and no payment was made. sitemap.xml at the root is empty; the real sitemaps are core.xml with 2,367 URLs, apps.xml with 3,204, blog.xml with 571 and alternatives.xml with 2,400, holding 3,203 distinct /application/ paths and no localized application pages. The link census is a seeded random sample of 500 of those, of which 498 were fetched and 2 returned errors: all 498 carry the VISIT anchor to the tool's own domain with rel="noopener" and no nofollow, sponsored or ugc token, 460 of the 498 carry utm_source=aicollection, all 498 carry a rel=canonical, and the string /redirect/ appears on none of them although robots.txt disallows it. Prices and quotations are from the served HTML of /submit. The promotion plans have no published price page: /pricing, /promote, /promotion, /plans, /checkout, /submit/payment and /advertise each returned 404. The GitHub figures are from the repository API: 9,130 stars, 1,014 forks, default branch main, not archived, newest commit on main dated 2026-07-13, and three open pull requests titled add Whisper Web opened 2026-07-21, Add CharaVox opened 2026-07-27 and Add Dark-Moon opened 2026-07-31. The cadence figure counts the 1,000 most recent commits, which span 2026-06-04 to 2026-07-13, of which 498 begin with add. The homepage describes the directory as 4,000+ AI tools; both that figure and the sitemap count are printed here with their sources and no claim is made about the difference. Whether the site itself is still publishing new listings was not measured: its Recently added block is client-rendered and the app sitemap carries no lastmod. Submitator does not submit to That AI Collection: our plans are $29 for 30 directories, $49 for 60 and $79 for 100, one-time, chosen by you in the dashboard with each Domain Rating shown, rejections credited back as +1 directory and a 30-day refund policy on the conditions in our terms.
How to submit to That AI Collection, step by step
- 1
Know which part of the bundle you are buying
The $19 is sold as four things: an indexed page, a do-follow link, a feature slot on the home page and GitHub, and the option of a Product Review blog post. The link is the part that reliably arrives, and on the evidence of 498 listings it arrives exactly as described. Decide before you pay whether the $19 is worth it on the link alone, because that is the part you can count on.
- 2
Ask when the GitHub queue next merges
Three tool submissions have been open on the repo since 21, 27 and 31 July, and the last commit of any kind was 13 July. Email pavel@ai-collection.org and ask when the next batch goes in. It is a polite question with a factual answer, and if the GitHub listing is part of why you are paying then the answer is worth having in writing first.
- 3
Get the promotion plans priced in advance
Their FAQ says the plans start from $10 and that you see the page listing them after you submit. We looked for a public version and did not find one: /pricing, /promote, /promotion, /plans, /checkout, /submit/payment and /advertise all return 404. Ask by email for the list and the prices before you start, so the $19 decision and the upsell decision are separate ones.
- 4
Let their AI draft it, then rewrite the description
The form offers "Submit with AI": paste your URL and it drafts the listing, with every field editable before you send. Use it for the structure and then write the description yourself. It is the one piece of text on your page that a human reader actually reads, and their terms let the team edit fields for clarity afterwards anyway.
- 5
Get the details right the first time
There is no self-serve editing yet. Their answer to a wrong submission is "email pavel@ai-collection.org and the team will fix it for you. An edit option is on the roadmap." So proofread the URL, the pricing and the category before you submit, because changing them later means waiting on a person.
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Take the link at face value, because it holds up
Open any listing after you go live and check the VISIT button. It should point at your own domain with rel="noopener" and no nofollow, which is what all 498 pages we sampled do. If yours does that, you got what you paid for on the part that matters most.
Credit first: the link is exactly as advertised
Directories that sell "do-follow" and ship something else are common enough that we check every time. This is not one of them. Of 500 listings drawn at random from their 3,204, 498 came back and all 498 carry a VISIT button straight to the tool's own domain with rel="noopener". Not a single nofollow, not a single redirector, and a rel=canonical on every page.
Here is one, whole: "<a href="https://playgroundai.com/?utm_source=aicollection&utm_medium=aicollection&utm_campaign=aicollection" target="_blank" rel="noopener">VISIT Playground". 460 of the 498 carry that tracking tag and 38 do not, which is the only variation in the whole set.
The rest of the build is the same story. Six languages, a canonical on every listing, an llms.txt and a half-megabyte llms-full.txt, an MCP block and an API block advertised on the home page, and a Content-Signal line in robots.txt. Somebody who knows what they are doing is running this. That is worth saying before the rest.
The half of the bundle that stopped
Their answer to "what will I get for publishing my AI application?" is one sentence with four items in it, and the third is "featuring on the ‘Latest Additions’ section on the home page and GitHub page". The home page half is fine: there is a What's new block with a Recently added list on it.
The GitHub half is ai-collection/ai-collection, and it is a real asset: 9,130 stars, 1,014 forks, public, unarchived, with its homepage field pointing back at the directory. Its most recent commit on main is 13 July 2026. Over the 1,000 commits before that, covering 4 June to 13 July, 498 of them are add <tool>, roughly 89 a week. Since 13 July, nothing.
Three pull requests are open, and all three are somebody's tool waiting to be listed: add Whisper Web from 21 July, Add CharaVox from 27 July and Add Dark-Moon from 31 July. A 45-day pause is not abandonment and nothing here says it is. It is simply a component of a paid bundle that is not moving at the moment you would be paying for it, and the way to find out is to ask before rather than after.
The price you can read, and the one you cannot
"You can publish your AI application on AI Collection for only $19, or by purchasing a promotion plan starting from $10." That is the whole of the published pricing. What the promotion plans contain, how many there are and what the top one costs is answered with "after your submission you will be referred to the payment page that lists the different promotion plans".
We went looking for that page on the open web and did not find it. Seven candidate addresses all return 404: /pricing, /promote, /promotion, /plans, /checkout, /submit/payment and /advertise. So the upsell is priced at a floor and detailed after the commitment, which is a normal enough way to sell and still a reason to ask for the list by email first.
Two numbers for the same catalog
Their sitemaps publish 3,203 distinct tool pages. Their home page calls the site "a hand-curated directory of 4,000+ AI tools" and the search box says "Search 4,000+ AI tools". Both figures are theirs and both were read on the same day. We did not find where the difference lives, and a sitemap is not always the whole of a catalog, so take the pair as it stands rather than as an accusation.
What the sitemaps also show is how the traffic is built: alongside the tool pages there are 2,198 comparison pages and 400 alternative pages, which is a programmatic cluster of the same kind you are reading right now. No complaint from us about that. It is worth knowing that the audience your listing joins arrives largely through those pages.
Their $19: one listing. Our $29: thirty you can check.
One payment, every directory named in your dashboard with its Domain Rating on the card, and you tick the ones you want before anything is filed.
That AI Collection review: is the $19 worth it?
On the link alone, yes. $19 for a followed link from a DR 43 directory that puts a canonical on every page, runs in six languages and publishes an llms.txt is a small price for a real thing, and their delivery on the part we could measure was flawless. If you want the listing, buy the listing.
Price the rest at zero until somebody confirms it. The GitHub feature is bundled into the same sentence as the link, and that repo has not moved in 45 days with three submissions queued. The promotion plans start at $10 and are described after you submit. Neither of those is a scandal. Both are questions with easy answers that cost one email to get, and the email is cheaper before the payment than after it.
A note on scale, since that is our end of the argument. Their $19 buys one door. Nine of the thirty directories in our Starter plan sell a paid tier of their own, and each one is named with its price on the savings page, over $140 the plan absorbs. You can read that list before you buy, which is the habit this whole page has been arguing for.
The link is real. The GitHub half stopped in July.
$19 for a listing on a DR 43 directory of 3,203 tools, and the do-follow link they promise arrives on 498 of the 498 pages we sampled, direct and with a canonical. Bundled into the same sentence is a feature on their 9,130-star GitHub repo, whose last commit is 13 July 2026 with three tool submissions open since late July. Buy it for the link, ask about the rest. Our thirty directories cost $29, and you read the list first. The whole catalog.
FAQ
How much does it cost to submit to That AI Collection?
Their FAQ: "You can publish your AI application on AI Collection for only $19, or by purchasing a promotion plan starting from $10." $19 is the publish price. What the promotion plans are, and what they cost above $10, is not published anywhere we could find: /pricing, /promote, /promotion, /plans, /checkout, /submit/payment and /advertise all return 404, and their own answer is "after your submission you will be referred to the payment page that lists the different promotion plans".
Is the That AI Collection link dofollow?
Yes, and it should be said first. They promise "a do-follow link to your website" and they deliver it. We took 500 listings at random from their 3,204 and fetched them: 498 came back and every one of the 498 carries a VISIT button pointing straight at the tool's own domain with rel="noopener", which is a followed link. Not one carries nofollow, none routes through a redirector, and all 498 carry a canonical tag.
What do you get for the $19?
Their list, verbatim: "A dedicated indexed page on AI Collection with your AI application details and SEO best practices, a do-follow link to your website, featuring on the 'Latest Additions' section on the home page and GitHub page, and the ability to publish a 'Product Review' blog post on the AI Collection blog." Four things, and the third one is the reason this page exists.
Does That AI Collection still add tools to its GitHub repo?
Not since 13 July 2026. The repo is github.com/ai-collection/ai-collection, it has 9,130 stars and it is not archived, and the newest commit on its main branch is dated 13 July 2026, which is 45 days before this page was written. Over the 1,000 commits before that, spanning 4 June to 13 July, 498 were adding a tool, a rate of about 89 a week. Three pull requests adding tools are open and unmerged, opened on 21, 27 and 31 July.
Is a GitHub listing worth paying for?
A link from a 9,130-star repository is a real asset, which is exactly why the pause matters. The repo is not dead: it is public, unarchived, and the site it points at is being actively developed. It just has not taken a commit in 45 days while submissions queue behind it. If the GitHub half is part of why you are paying, ask when the next batch merges before you pay rather than after.
How big is That AI Collection?
Their sitemaps publish 3,203 distinct tool pages at /application/. Their homepage describes the site as "a hand-curated directory of 4,000+ AI tools" and the search box says "Search 4,000+ AI tools". Both numbers are theirs, from the same day, and we did not find the difference. Alongside the tools they run 2,198 comparison pages and 400 alternative pages.
Is there a free way to list on That AI Collection?
No. $19 is the publish price and the only one. Their reason is on the page: "AI Collection is growing and in order to ensure high quality of the applications, a small fee is charged." That is a fair thing to say and a common arrangement, and it means the cheapest door is $19.
Can you edit a That AI Collection listing after publishing?
Not yourself, yet. Their FAQ: "Absolutely. Email pavel@ai-collection.org and the team will fix it for you. An edit option is on the roadmap." So corrections go through a person, which is fine while the volume is small and worth knowing if your pricing or positioning changes often.
Is That AI Collection worth $19?
For the link, yes, on the numbers. A followed link from a DR 43 directory with 3,203 tool pages, a canonical on every one, six languages, an llms.txt and an MCP endpoint is a well-built place to be listed, and $19 is a small price for it. Buy it for that. Treat the GitHub listing as a bonus that may or may not arrive, and price the promotion plans before you commit to them rather than after.
Does Submitator submit to That AI Collection?
No. Their $19 buys one listing on one domain. Our $29 buys submissions to thirty directories, each named in the dashboard with its Domain Rating on the card, and you tick the ones you want before a single submission is filed. $49 covers sixty and $79 a hundred, paid once, with a rejection swapped for another directory and a thirty-day refund window on the conditions in our terms.
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