Their Cheapest Plan Costs More Than Our Biggest, and Delivers Sixty-Five Fewer.
Written by Submitator, which sells the same thing for about a third of the price, so read it adversarially. Every figure is quoted from submitora.com or from our own published pricing and terms, and the footnote says exactly what was checked.
Submitora sells manual directory submissions in two plans: $99 for 35 and $249 for 100, both one-time. Submitator sells $29 for 30, $49 for 60 and $79 for 100.
Per submission that is $2.83 and $2.49 against our $0.97 and $0.79, which is roughly 2.9 to 3.2 times our price. But the ratio undersells it, because the two plans do not line up. The clearest way to put it is the one that needs no division at all:
Their cheapest plan costs $20 more than our biggest one, and delivers 65 fewer submissions.
| What you buy | Submitora | Submitator | Per submission |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entry plan | $99 for 35 | $29 for 30 | $2.83 vs $0.97 |
| 100 submissions | $249 | $79 | $2.49 vs $0.79 |
| Their $99 buys | 35 submissions | 100 for $79 | $20 less, 65 more |
Not more directories, not better ones, and not a list you can see. Their FAQ says it plainly: "Is this the same as automated directory submission software? No. Submitora is a manual service." The premium is a person's hours. That is an honest description of a cost structure, and it is a cost structure, not a feature. A listing on a DR 54 directory is the same listing whether a human typed it at 2pm or a real browser did at 2am.
Submitora vs Submitator
| Feature | Submitora | Submitator |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $99 for 35 | $29 for 30 |
| 100 submissions | $249 | $79 |
| Per submission | $2.83 to $2.49 | $0.97 to $0.79 |
| You choose the directories | No, they decide | Yes, you tick them |
| List published | No | All 120+, with DR on each card |
| Domain Rating shown per directory | No | Yes, plus a no-equity mark |
| Badge directories | Not mentioned anywhere | Installed and kept live |
| Paid launch tiers included | No, billed separately with approval | Over $135 absorbed |
| Refund window | 24 hours | 30 days |
| Rejections | Replaced if dead or mismatched | Credited back as +1 directory |
| Their own Domain Rating | 2 (Ahrefs) | 38 (Ahrefs) |
Per submitora.com, its home page, /pricing and /about, robots.txt and sitemap.xml, all read on 21 September 2026, and per submitator.com/pricing, /terms and the savings ledger on our home page. Their plan names, prices, delivery windows and every quoted sentence are taken from their own pages: Starter at $99 one-time for "35 relevant manual submissions" in 7 to 10 business days, Growth at $249 one-time for "100 relevant manual submissions" in 14 to 21 business days with a 30-day status recheck, alongside "Directories selected by fit, not by an inflated list count", "We decide where a listing is worth the effort", "Is this the same as automated directory submission software? No. Submitora is a manual service", and the refund wording "Cancel for any reason within 24 hours of successful payment for a full refund. Manual work starts only after that period. Later change-of-mind refunds are unavailable." Their not-included list names third-party listing fees, guaranteed acceptance, guaranteed dofollow links, indexing, rankings, traffic, revenue and authority-score growth. Per-submission figures are each plan price divided by its submission count: 99/35 = $2.83, 249/100 = $2.49, 29/30 = $0.97, 79/100 = $0.79; the ratios are 99/29 = 3.4 and 249/79 = 3.15. The badge observation is a text search of their home, pricing and about pages: the string badge occurs 22 times in the markup of the home page and every occurrence is a CSS class name from their component library, with zero occurrences in the rendered visible text of any of the three. Domain Rating is Ahrefs' figure via submitator.com/domain-rating-checker, which returned 2 for submitora.com and 38 for submitator.com on that date; Domain Rating moves between crawls and a new domain starting low is ordinary rather than a criticism. Their sitemap holds 21 URLs including 13 blog posts, with lastmod values ranging from 16 April 2026 to 13 August 2026, and their methodology page states "Methodology last reviewed: August 13, 2026". The similarity between the two company names is stated as an observation a reader will make for themselves; we make no claim about how either name was chosen and allege nothing. Nothing was purchased from Submitora, no campaign was ordered and no report was seen, so their delivery in practice, their directory selection and their report quality are outside what we can report beyond their published wording. They state 7 to 10 and 14 to 21 business days; Submitator's terms state an aim of 2 to 3 days and a committed ETA of 30 days from purchase with a proportional refund for directories undelivered within it, so this page makes no speed comparison in either direction. Our "over $135" is the total of the eight paid launch tiers listed on our savings section, at those directories' own published prices. 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 and no-equity marked where it applies, badges installed and kept live, rejections credited back as +1 directory and a 30-day refund policy on the conditions in our terms.
The list is theirs, and it is not published
Their positioning line on this is good writing: "Directories selected by fit, not by an inflated list count." It is a pre-emptive answer to anybody who counts, and it lands, because plenty of services in this market do pad a number with dead sites.
What it also does is decline to show you the list. Their about page is explicit about whose decision it is: "We decide where a listing is worth the effort." So you pay $99 or $249, and you learn which doors you bought from the report.
We have written this paragraph before about a better-funded competitor and it has not got less true. Our catalog is the picker: every directory named, its Domain Rating printed on the card, a no-equity mark where we have measured that the listing passes nothing, and you tick the ones you want before anything is filed. If a directory in your plan rejects you, it comes back as a credit for another one of your choosing.
The word badge does not appear
We searched all three of their main pages. The string turns up twenty-two times in the home page markup and every single occurrence is a CSS class name from their component library. In the visible copy, across the home page, the pricing page and the methodology page, the word badge appears zero times.
That is not an oversight, it is a capability boundary. A directory form is typing that ends when you press submit. A badge is a snippet that has to go into somebody else's repository, ship to production and then stay there, because verification looks at a live page and a redesign six months later can silently remove it. You cannot hand-fill that. It is a component you build and maintain, or it is a tier you quietly leave out of the brochure.
The tier in question is not small or marginal. We have censused directories at DR 51 to DR 54 that ask for a badge and return a followed link for it, and this month a launch board whose own pricing page prices the alternative for you: a badge, or $19. A service built on filling in forms by hand has nothing to offer there.
Twenty-four hours
Their refund window is quoted exactly as they write it: "Cancel for any reason within 24 hours of successful payment for a full refund. Manual work starts only after that period. Later change-of-mind refunds are unavailable."
The logic is coherent, and we will say so: once a person has started spending hours, those hours are gone whatever happens next. It is the honest consequence of pricing labour rather than outcomes. It is also a one-day window on a purchase whose results arrive between seven and twenty-one business days later, which means the money is committed long before there is anything to judge.
Ours is 30 days, on the conditions in our terms, with a proportional refund for directories undelivered inside the committed window. Different model, different exposure: we can offer thirty days because a real browser filing a form does not bill by the hour.
DR 2
Ahrefs returns 2 for submitora.com. It returns 38 for submitator.com. We are not going to build a section on that, because a new domain starting low is ordinary and their sitemap suggests the site is about five months old, which is not a character flaw.
It is worth one paragraph for a different reason. Their methodology page argues that a directory is not valuable just because it "reports a high third-party authority score", and as a general proposition that is correct: we have spent this year measuring directories at DR 69 and above whose listings pass nothing at all. The difference is that we publish the number anyway, next to a mark saying when it does not mean what it looks like, and you can run our checker on us, on them, or on whoever sold you a link last month. Publishing a number you can check is a different thing from arguing that numbers do not matter.
What they get right
A comparison page that only found faults would be worth nothing, so: Submitora's pricing page is genuinely clear, which is rarer here than it should be. The refusals are explicit and they are in the right places. They will not guarantee acceptance, indexing, rankings, traffic or authority growth, and they say so on the page where you pay rather than in a policy nobody opens.
Their methodology page is dated, reasoned and public, and the criteria on it, fit, profile depth, maintenance, submission reality, trackability, are the criteria we would use. They promise to raise a paid directory with you before spending your money on it. Nothing we found suggests anything other than a competently run small service. It costs about three times what we do and it picks the list for you.
One observation we will make once and then leave alone, because readers notice it without being told: the two company names are one letter and one syllable apart. We have no idea how either was chosen and we are not suggesting anything by it. If you arrived here from a search and were not certain which site you were on, that is worth knowing before you enter a card number.
Which one should you buy?
If you want a person to choose your directories for you, write your profile copy by hand, and send you screenshots, and you are comfortable paying about three times the per-submission rate for that, theirs is a competently built version of that product at $99 and $249.
If you would rather see every directory before it is used, know each one's Domain Rating and whether its listing passes anything, decline the ones you do not want, have the badge tier handled rather than skipped, and pay $29, $49 or $79, that is this one.
Submitora alternative: the short answer
About three times the price per submission, with a list you cannot see, no badge handling, and a twenty-four hour refund window on a job that takes up to twenty-one business days.
Their $99 buys 35. Our $79 buys 100, and you pick them.
One payment, every directory named in your dashboard with its Domain Rating on the card, a no-equity mark where the link cannot be crawled, one component that installs every badge a directory asks for and keeps it live, and a rejection credited back as another directory of your choice.
Real backlinks. Real DR. Real proof.
Their $99 buys 35. Our $79 buys 100.
Submitora is $99 for 35 manual submissions and $249 for 100, which is $2.83 and $2.49 each against our $0.97 and $0.79. Their cheapest plan costs $20 more than our biggest and delivers 65 fewer. You do not see the list, the word badge appears nowhere in their copy, and the refund window is 24 hours. We publish all 120+ directories with the Domain Rating on each card and you choose. All the submission tools compared.
FAQ
How much does Submitora cost compared to Submitator?
Submitora is $99 one-time for 35 submissions and $249 for 100. Submitator is $29 for 30, $49 for 60 and $79 for 100. Per submission that is $2.83 and $2.49 against our $0.97 and $0.79, so roughly 2.9 to 3.2 times our price. The plainest way to see it: their cheapest plan costs $20 more than our biggest one and delivers 65 fewer submissions.
Does Submitora tell you which directories it submits to?
No. Their positioning line is “Directories selected by fit, not by an inflated list count”, and their about page says “We decide where a listing is worth the effort.” So the list is theirs, it is not published, and you find out what you bought from the report afterwards. Submitator publishes the whole catalog of 120+ with a Domain Rating on every card and a no-equity mark where the listing passes nothing, and you tick the ones you want before anything is filed.
Does Submitora handle directory badges?
The word badge does not appear anywhere in their copy. We checked all three of their main pages: the 22 matches in the markup are CSS class names from their component library, and the visible text contains none. Badge directories are a real and growing tier, several of them DR 51 to DR 54 with followed links, and a service that never mentions them is a service that cannot file them.
What is Submitora's refund policy?
Twenty-four hours. Their own wording is “Cancel for any reason within 24 hours of successful payment for a full refund. Manual work starts only after that period. Later change-of-mind refunds are unavailable.” Submitator's terms give you 30 days, and a rejected submission comes back as a credit for another directory of your choice rather than as a line in a report.
Is Submitora automated or manual?
Manual, and they make a point of it. Their FAQ answers the question directly: “Is this the same as automated directory submission software? No. Submitora is a manual service.” That is an honest description of their cost structure. It is also why the price is three times ours, because what you are paying for is a person's hours rather than the listing at the end of them.
What is Submitora's Domain Rating?
2, per Ahrefs. Submitator's is 38. Their own about page argues that a directory is not valuable just because it “reports a high third-party authority score”, which is a fair point in general and a convenient one at 2. We publish our own number for the same reason we publish every directory's: you can check it, on us or on anybody, with our Domain Rating checker.
Are third-party directory fees included with Submitora?
No. Their not-included list names “Third-party listing fees” first, and their FAQ says a paid directory is raised with you for approval before anything is spent. That is the correct way to handle it. Worth knowing that Submitator's plans absorb eight paid launch tiers instead, worth over $135 at those directories' own published prices, with nothing added at checkout.
How long does Submitora take?
They state 7 to 10 business days for the 35-submission plan and 14 to 21 business days for the 100, with a 30-day status recheck on the larger one. Submitator's terms state an aim of 2 to 3 days and a committed ETA of 30 days from purchase, with a proportional refund for directories undelivered within it, so this page makes no speed comparison in either direction.
Is Submitora legitimate?
Nothing we found suggests otherwise. The pricing page is clear, the refusals are explicit and in the right places, the methodology page is dated and reasoned, and they refuse to guarantee acceptance, indexing, rankings or authority growth, which is more than several better-funded competitors manage. It costs about three times what we do and it chooses the list for you.
What is the cheapest Submitora alternative?
Submitator. The three sizes are $29 for 30 directories, $49 for 60 and $79 for 100, one-time, which is about a third of their rate per submission. You pick every directory yourself from a published catalog with its Domain Rating on the card, badges are installed through one component and kept live, a rejection is credited back as another directory, and the refund window is 30 days rather than 24 hours.
Comparing options? See the others.
Their $99 buys 35. Our $79 buys 100, and you pick them.
One payment, each directory named with its Domain Rating on the card before you choose it, a no-equity mark where the link cannot be crawled, badges installed and kept live where one is wanted, a rejection swapped for another directory, and 30 days to change your mind.