“Nobody here submits on your behalf.” We do, from $29.
Submitator wrote this, and we sell exactly the service SubmitMap's FAQ says it is not, so weigh it as a rival's argument. SubmitMap's words are quoted from its own site, terms and docs. Statements about Submitator come from our terms, our home page or our founder, and the footnote under the comparison lists every page read.
SubmitMap is two products on one domain. The first is a free directory of 842 launch platforms: who each one accepts, what gets you rejected and the steps to submit. The second is paid: a dashboard and an MCP server that hand your own AI agent a brief for each form, at $9, $15 or $29 a month, $190 a year or $250 once.
The agent then does the typing in your browser, under the accounts you are already signed in to, while you watch. Their FAQ puts the whole model in one line: "A tool. Nobody here submits on your behalf."
Submitator sells what that answer leaves out, and SubmitMap's own automation page prices it: about $220 for the median done-for-you run. You pick 30, 60 or 100 directories for $29, $49 or $79, paid once, or take all 160 for $149 per project, and we submit them.
Their $29 buys a month of briefs for your agent. Ours buys 30 directories, submitted.
| You pay for | SubmitMap | Submitator |
|---|---|---|
| $29 | One month of Unlimited: briefs and tracking, your agent submits | 30 directories you pick, submitted for you, paid once |
| 100 directories, submitted | Not sold at any price. Their plans buy briefs; your agent does the submitting | $79 once, 100 you pick |
| Every directory | $250 lifetime licence for every product, then your agent works through each one | $149 once for all 160, one project, plus each one we add |
| A year of it | $190 a year, or $348 at $29 a month | Nothing recurring |
| Your AI tool and browser | Yours, and doing the work | Not needed |
Section 7, on submitting with an agent, ends with an instruction to the buyer: "Watch what your agent is doing. It is fast, it is not accountable, and the reputation attached to the submissions is yours."
SubmitMap vs Submitator
| Feature | SubmitMap | Submitator |
|---|---|---|
| Product | A directory map and form briefs for your own AI agent | Directory submissions, delivered |
| Who fills the forms | Your agent, in your browser, with you watching | Submitator |
| Price, 10 Oct 2026 | $9, $15 or $29 a month, $190 a year or $250 once | $29 for 30, $49 for 60, $79 for 100, $149 for all 160, paid once per project |
| Your AI subscription | Does the work | Not needed |
| Sign-ins and CAPTCHAs | Handed back to you (sign-ins by default) | Handled on our side |
| Paid listings | Left out unless you set a budget, then yours to pay | Paid tier on nine directories included (two are our own) |
| Badge directories | 296 of their 842: your agent edits your code, you deploy and verify | You install one component; we place each badge |
| Pace | One brief at a time per project, on leftover tokens | Aiming for 2 to 3 days, 21 days at most |
Per submitmap.com, read on 10 October 2026 from Internet Archive captures made that day between 15:08 and 15:34 UTC: /pricing, the home page, /automate, /for-agents, /pack, /docs and its eight sub-pages (setup, tools, before-you-start, boundaries, limits, guides, projects and endpoints), /terms and /privacy (both "Last updated 2026-08-31"), /support, /blog and two of its posts (/blog/dr-0-to-42-in-33-days and /blog/paid-directory-submission-run-audited), llms.txt and llms-full.txt. Their prices are the pricing cards on that date: Free $0 forever (1 product, 10 submissions, ever), Indie $9 a month (1 product, 100 submissions a month, first 7 days free), Studio $15 a month (3 products, no cap), Unlimited $29 a month or $190 a year and Lifetime $250 once ("Everything in Unlimited, paid for once"). On 31 August 2026 the same page listed Free (1 project, 5 submissions), a single Paid plan at $29 a month or $190 a year and Lifetime at $250. Section 11 of their terms lists three paid plans (Indie, Studio and Unlimited) and mentions neither the lifetime licence nor the trial. The definition of a submission is their pricing FAQ's; /docs/limits also describes the meter as a recorded outcome. The 842 is the platform count on their home page, /automate and llms.txt. The count of 296 platforms that want "a badge or a link back" is their own, from /docs/before-you-start, and llms-full.txt has 296 records marked "Requires backlink to it: yes". The sign-in default, the Google option, the CAPTCHA handback and the one-brief-at-a-time rule are quoted from /docs, /docs/before-you-start, /docs/boundaries and /docs/tools; their tools reference says the budget setting "defaults to free-only". The ten-platform batch and "Say go" come from their demo, captioned "A sped-up replay. Quillmark is a made-up product; the platforms are real."; the screenshot shows its last message. All four screenshots were rendered from those captures on 10 October 2026, with their floating feedback button hidden. The $220 median is quoted from the comparison table on /automate, which does not name the service it measured; their blog calls both sides "unnamed on purpose". Their terms say the site is "operated by one person, working as an individual in Poland" and governed by Polish law, and the domain was registered on 7 August 2026. No SubmitMap account was opened and no plan was bought, so what their agent does in practice is described only in SubmitMap's own published words. Submitator's side comes from submitator.com (pricing, savings table, FAQ, features and badge section) and our terms dated 7 October 2026. The ETA paragraph of those terms reads: "We aim to submit your startup to every directory in your package within 2 to 3 days. However, Submitator is currently in beta and demand is higher than we can comfortably handle, so our committed ETA to deliver all directories in a package is 30 days from purchase. Starting October 7, 2026, our maximum committed ETA is reduced to 21 days from purchase." Submitator's founder is the source for these: sign-ups run on dedicated email addresses whose domains are unconnected to Submitator, with pooled accounts on some directories under an arrangement with each; CAPTCHAs are dealt with on our side; submissions are spread over several days; and each badge goes into the one component a customer installs. The over-$140 figure adds up the nine paid tiers included in our plans at each directory's own list price, and AffyList and AlterBase, two of those nine, are owned by Submitator. Per directory, our plans come to $0.97 (30 for $29), $0.82 (60 for $49), $0.79 (100 for $79) and $0.93 (all 160 for $149, one project). Nothing here claims the two products cover the same directories. Our plans, for reference: 30, 60 or 100 directories you choose in the dashboard for $29, $49 or $79, paid once, where a rejection is replaced by a directory you pick; $149 once per project for the whole catalog and later additions, with a committed floor of 180 directories by 31 December 2026; one badge component serves every plan.
SubmitMap pricing: what a “submission” is on their bill
Five plans sit on one page: Free for one product and 10 submissions, Indie at $9 a month for 100 submissions a month, Studio at $15 a month for three products with no cap, Unlimited at $29 a month or $190 a year and Lifetime at $250 once, with everything in Unlimited.
The word doing the work on those cards is "submission", and their FAQ defines it: "It counts once, from the first time your agent asks for the brief that fills its form, and it stays counted." What their plans meter is the brief, the instructions for one form. The submitting is done by an agent you pay for separately, in your own browser.
Read the cards as prices for submissions and they look cheap. Read them as prices for instructions, which is what their own definition says, and the comparison turns. Their Unlimited costs $29 every month. Our $29 is paid once and buys 30 directories, submitted. Their lifetime licence costs $250 and covers every product you ship; our All Directories plan costs $149 for one project, $101 less, and includes the submitting for all 160.
Their own automation page prices the done-for-you alternative at about $220, the median of a run. Our done-for-you plans start at $29 and stop at $149. And their terms, last updated on 31 August 2026, list three paid plans (Indie, Studio and Unlimited); the $250 lifetime licence is not one of them.
SubmitMap's terms, section 7: “no submission is ever made by us”
That line closes the first paragraph of section 7 of SubmitMap's terms: "SubmitMap does not submit anything on your behalf. It gives your own AI agent the instructions, and that agent fills the form in your browser, from your machine, as you. We are not your agent, we do not represent you to any platform, and no submission is ever made by us."
The same section hands you the responsibility. You answer for "everything submitted in your name, including anything an agent typed for you" and for "whatever your AI agent and its provider do, which is a relationship we are not in". Section 14 adds that they are not liable "for what your own AI agent does."
Every submission is yours to answer for, and not one is theirs. At Submitator the submissions are made by us, and our terms put a date on them: we target 2 to 3 days and the deadline is 21 days from purchase. If our committed ETA passes with directories undelivered, those are refunded in proportion.
Your steps: “a login, a captcha, anything that costs money”
Their automation page lists the steps your agent leaves for you in step 03 of the four they call the loop:
Their docs fill in the detail. By default the agent "stops at every login and hands the keyboard back", and they admit what that default costs: "A pause on every platform, which is the slow part of a twenty-platform run." Name a Google account and the agent can click "Continue with Google" where a platform offers it; any other login, the docs add, "still comes back to you." When a CAPTCHA appears, "the agent stops and hands it to you". Paid platforms stay out of the run unless you set a budget, and then paying is your step too.
At Submitator that whole list is our job. Sign-ups happen on our side, from dedicated email addresses that have nothing to do with our own domain, and CAPTCHAs are dealt with there too. The paid step is covered before you start: our plans include the paid tier on nine directories, worth more than $140 if bought at each directory's list price, and AffyList and AlterBase on that list belong to us.
“Say go and I will take the next 10”
Their demo shows the rhythm of a run. The maker in it types "Plan the run and start the first 10." The agent works through ten platforms in Chrome, "one at a time", and then stops and waits:
The demo is a sped-up replay, but the one-at-a-time rule behind it is written into their tools reference: "One brief is out at a time per project: the next one is refused, and costs nothing, until the last one has something recorded." Every platform is a brief, a form in your browser and a record, in that order, with you on hand for whatever comes back.
With us you say go once. You tick the directories in the dashboard, with the Domain Rating printed beside each, then press "Start submissions". From there the submitting is ours, spread across days, with a status on every directory and a final report with all the links.
Your AI subscription does the typing
SubmitMap does none of the typing. One section of their automation page is headed "It works with the AI coding tool you are already paying for" and goes on: "There is no bot to buy and no server of ours in the loop. Three pieces, and you own two of them." The two you own are your AI coding tool and your browser.
Their own comparison table names the pace: "Yours. It runs on whatever tokens are left over from the coding session you already have open, so a busy week is a slower week."
That is the cost the price cards leave out. The subscription buys the instructions. The typing runs on an AI plan you already pay for, at whatever pace your other work leaves it. With Submitator no AI plan of yours is touched, nothing runs on your machine and the date comes from our terms.
Badges: “the step that ends launch runs”
That is how SubmitMap's own guides describe badges, and their docs count them: "296 of the 842 platforms in the directory want a badge or a link back on your site, several of them before they will even look at your submission."
The docs also say who does that work: "The work is on the other side of the browser: open the editor, find the footer, add the markup, deploy, then go back and click verify. With the repository open the agent makes that change, shows you the diff, and you commit it. Or you tell it to do the lot and check afterwards." And it does not end at approval: "Several of these platforms re-crawl your site and delist you if it comes down."
Their blog goes further and aims at services like ours: "a done-for-you run cannot deploy your footer." Ours never needs to. You install one Submitator component on your site, once, and from then on we drop each directory's badge into it and keep it there. Your agent never opens the editor, because there is no agent, and no badge waits for a deploy of yours.
Directory badges we place and maintain through one component
SubmitMap's terms, section 6: “a listing is not a promise”
Section 6 of their terms sets expectations for the map itself: “So, plainly: a listing is not a promise. Not that a platform is currently accepting submissions, not that it is still free, not that its form still looks the way we describe, and not that it is still online. We do not verify listings on a schedule and we deliberately do not display a "last checked" date, because a date like that reassures more than it informs.”
So when an entry on their map is out of date, the cost lands on your run: your agent finds out at the form, on your time. Our terms put that risk on us. Pick a directory we then fail to deliver inside our committed ETA and you get its share of the price back; if one rejects you on a 30, 60 or 100 plan, you choose another in its place.
What they get right
The directory is free to read without an account, and each entry says who a platform accepts and what gets you rejected. Every plan is priced on one public page.
Their terms and privacy policy are written in plain English: who runs the site, which companies touch your data and what your agent's calls leave behind. And the terms state the most important fact about the product in one sentence: watch your agent.
Which one should you buy?
Pick SubmitMap if the launch is a project you want to run yourself: you already pay for Claude Code, Codex or Cursor, you have evenings to give it and you are happy to sign in, clear CAPTCHAs and commit badge code whenever the agent asks. For that buyer it is a thoughtful tool at a fair price.
Pick Submitator if what you want at the end is the listings. $29 buys 30 directories you pick, $79 buys 100 and $149 covers all 160 for one project, with the sign-ups, CAPTCHAs, paid tiers and badges handled on our side.
SubmitMap alternative: the short answer
Buy SubmitMap and the launch stays your job: $9 to $29 a month or $250 once buys a brief for each form, your agent fills it in your browser and you clear whatever it hands back, from CAPTCHAs and payments to badge deploys. Buy Submitator and the job is ours, from $29 for 30 directories you pick to $149 for all 160 on one project, paid once.
Their $29 a month buys briefs for your agent. Our $29 buys 30 directories, done.
Paid once, nothing to supervise: you tick the directories and we submit them, keep every CAPTCHA off your screen, place every badge through one component and include the paid tier on nine directories.
Their $29: a month of briefs. Our $29: 30 directories, done.
SubmitMap is a free directory of 842 platforms plus $9 to $29 a month, or $250 once, for briefs your own AI agent follows in your browser. Its FAQ says nobody there submits on your behalf. Every CAPTCHA, payment and badge deploy comes back to you, and by default every sign-in does too. Submitator submits for you: $29, $49 or $79 for 30, 60 or 100 directories you pick, or $149 for all 160 per project, paid once. All the submission tools compared.
FAQ
How much does SubmitMap cost?
Reading the directory is free. The dashboard is free for one product and 10 submissions, ever. Paid plans are $9 a month for one product and 100 submissions a month, $15 a month for three products and $29 a month or $190 a year for unlimited. A lifetime licence costs $250 once. A submission on their bill is a brief your own AI agent works from, not a listing SubmitMap files. Submitator charges once: $29 for 30 directories, $49 for 60, $79 for 100 or $149 for all 160 for one project, submitted for you.
Is SubmitMap a directory submission service?
No, and its own FAQ says so: “A tool. Nobody here submits on your behalf.” Its terms add that “no submission is ever made by us”. SubmitMap supplies the platform data and a brief for each form, and your own AI agent fills the form in your browser while you watch. Submitator is the service itself: you choose the directories, and the submitting is ours.
What counts as a submission on SubmitMap?
A platform, counted “from the first time your agent asks for the brief that fills its form”, as their pricing FAQ puts it. Reading the platform, checking whether you qualify, planning the run and recording the result are free, and a second brief for the same platform costs nothing. Indie caps submissions at 100 a month; Studio and Unlimited have no submission cap.
Does SubmitMap handle CAPTCHAs and logins?
No. Their docs say that when a CAPTCHA appears, “the agent stops and hands it to you”, and that by default the agent “stops at every login and hands the keyboard back”. Name a Google account and it can click “Continue with Google” where a platform offers it; any other login still comes back to you. At Submitator the sign-ups and CAPTCHAs are handled on our side, and the paid tier on nine directories comes with every plan.
Which AI agents work with SubmitMap?
Anything that speaks MCP, in their words “Claude, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code or Hermes.” The agent runs on your own subscription to that tool, which their page calls “The tool you already pay for”, and fills forms in your own browser under the sessions you are already signed in to. Submitator needs no agent and no tokens of yours.
Who installs the badges with SubmitMap?
You, or your agent with your sign-off. Their docs: “With the repository open the agent makes that change, shows you the diff, and you commit it. Or you tell it to do the lot and check afterwards.” The badge prompt in their guides ends with the maker asking which ones “I still have to deploy before I can click verify”, and by their own count 296 of their 842 platforms want a badge or a link back. With Submitator you put one component on your site, once; placing each directory's badge and keeping it there is then our job.
How long does a SubmitMap run take?
That is up to your agent's spare capacity. Their automation page gives the pace as “Yours. It runs on whatever tokens are left over from the coding session you already have open, so a busy week is a slower week.” Their server also issues one brief at a time per project. Your busy week does not slow Submitator down: our target is 2 to 3 days, our terms hold us to 21 days from purchase and any directory still undelivered when our committed ETA runs out is refunded in proportion.
What does $29 buy at SubmitMap and at Submitator?
At SubmitMap, $29 is one month of the Unlimited plan, renewed each month until you cancel: briefs and tracking for as many products as you like, with your own agent doing every submission. At Submitator, $29 is paid once and buys 30 directories you pick, submitted for you. $149 once covers all 160 directories in our catalog for one project; their $250 lifetime licence covers every product you ship, with your agent still doing the submitting.
Is SubmitMap legit?
Yes. Its terms say it is “operated by one person, working as an individual in Poland”, and its privacy policy names every company that processes your data. The catch is not honesty but the job: SubmitMap does not submit anything for you, and its terms say so. Submitator is operated by Adeptus Innovatio SL, and the submitting is ours.
What is the best SubmitMap alternative?
Submitator, for anyone who would rather receive the listings than run the agent. Thirty directories you pick cost $29 and a hundred cost $79; $149 takes one project through the entire catalog, 160 directories now and every one added later. Each is a single payment. We take care of sign-ups and CAPTCHAs and run every badge through one component. Every plan already covers the paid tier on nine directories, worth over $140 at each directory's own price, and AffyList and AlterBase, both on that list, belong to Submitator.
Comparing options? See the others.
Their $29 is a month. Ours is 30 directories.
Tick 30, 60 or 100 yourself, or take all 160 for $149. No agent to watch, no tokens to spend and no tab left open on a CAPTCHA.