Where to submit your AI tool: 152 AI directories ranked by traffic

Submit your AI tool to There's An AI For That first. It costs $49, and with 5.1 million visits a month it gets more traffic than the next five AI directories put together. Then submit to the big free ones: Future Tools, Artificin, AI Valley and AI Tools Directory for AI tools, or MCP Market, Smithery, MCP.so and Glama if you've built an MCP server. After that, add the smaller directories that match your category.

That order comes from traffic data on all 152 AI directories in the AgentLaunch catalog: 136 AI tool directories, 9 AI agent directories and 7 MCP registries. Traffic is very uneven. There's An AI For That gets 34% of all their visits, the top ten get 76%, and the median AI directory gets about 6,100 visits a month.

The 30 AI directories with the most traffic

Directory	Type	DR	Monthly visits	Cost to list	Link
There's An AI For That	AI tools	77	5.1M	Paid, from $49	Dofollow
MCP Market	MCP	60	1.6M	Free; paid from $29	Not checked
Toolify	AI tools	73	1.1M	Paid, from $99	Dofollow
AIxploria	AI tools	56	781K	Paid, from $99	Nofollow
TopAI.tools	AI tools	64	678K	Paid, from $47	Dofollow
What's the Big Data	AI tools	74	637K	Free with a badge	Nofollow
Future Tools	AI tools	69	363K	Free	Dofollow
Dang AI	AI tools	82	346K	Free with a badge; paid from $49	Dofollow
Smithery	MCP	78	341K	Free	Not checked
Artificin	AI tools	64	330K	Free; paid from $79	Not checked
MCP.so	MCP	73	327K	Free	Not checked
Aipure	AI tools	57	221K	Paid, from $69.90	Not checked
Glama	MCP	75	214K	Free; paid from $49/mo	Not checked
Easy With AI	AI tools	59	168K	Paid, from $125	Dofollow
AI Top Tools	AI tools	54	163K	Paid, from $59	Nofollow
AI Valley	AI tools	33	157K	Free	Not checked
MCP.Directory	MCP	38	127K	Free	Not checked
AI Tools Directory	AI tools	51	126K	Free	Dofollow
OpenTools	MCP	69	110K	Paid	Dofollow
Powerusers AI	AI tools	33	92K	Paid, from $69	Dofollow
ToolPilot AI	AI tools	78	89K	Free with a badge	Dofollow
PoweredbyAI	AI tools	34	83K	Free; paid from $11.99	Not checked
WhatTheAI	AI tools	37	80K	Free; paid from $49	Dofollow
That AI Collection	AI tools	44	79K	Paid	Not checked
Aitoolnet	AI tools	56	75K	Free; paid from $9.90	Nofollow
AI Tools	AI tools	67	74K	Free; paid from $129	Nofollow
AI Agents List	AI agents	36	73K	Free	Not checked
AI Agents Directory	AI agents	74	70K	Free	Dofollow
AiTools	AI tools	43	68K	Paid, from $37	Dofollow
Best AI Tools Directory	AI tools	65	68K	Paid	Not checked

Monthly visits are for the whole directory, not for your listing. "Not checked" means we haven't confirmed it on a live listing yet, not that the link is nofollow.

How AI directory traffic is spread

Monthly visits	AI directories
1 million or more	3
100,000 to 1 million	16
10,000 to 100,000	49
1,000 to 10,000	57
Under 1,000	27

Only 19 of the 152 get 100,000 visits a month or more, and 84 get under 10,000. That's why "submit to 500 AI directories" offers aren't worth much: past the first few dozen, each extra listing reaches very few people. The small directories are still worth it when their category is exactly yours, because a niche visitor is closer to a user than a general browser on a big site.

What it costs to submit an AI tool

Listing terms	AI directories
Free, no badge or backlink needed	80
Free if you add their badge to your site	26
Paid only	46

Paid listings are cheap. Of the 82 directories with a one-time price, the median is $19.90 and 68 charge $50 or less. Five charge monthly instead, from $5 to $149 a month. Most free directories also sell a paid upgrade, usually a faster review or a featured spot.

Paying doesn't buy a bigger audience. The median paid-only AI directory gets 6,900 visits a month, against 11,100 for the free ones, and 24 of the 46 paid-only directories get under 10,000. A few paid listings are clearly worth it:

• There's An AI For That ($49, 5.1M visits). The one paid listing almost every AI tool should buy. Our TAAFT submission guide covers the form, the price options and the review.
• Toolify ($99, 1.1M visits) and TopAI.tools ($47, 678K visits). Both have large audiences, and we've seen followed links on both.
• AIxploria ($99, 781K visits). Big audience, but its links are nofollow, so you're paying for visitors only.

For the rest, compare the price with what one customer is worth to you. If a $20 listing on a site with 3,000 visits a month doesn't bring a single signup in two months, it wasn't worth the $20.

AI tool directories for backlinks

We've checked the link type on 42 of the 152 AI directories. These 17 list your tool for free, with no badge, and have given listed tools a followed link:

Directory	DR	Monthly visits	Cost to list	Link
Future Tools	69	363K	Free	Dofollow
AI Tools Directory	51	126K	Free	Dofollow
WhatTheAI	37	80K	Free; paid from $49	Dofollow
AI Agents Directory	74	70K	Free	Dofollow
Lachief	23	62K	Free; paid from $250	Dofollow
OpenFuture	56	47K	Free	Dofollow
SaaS AI Tools	53	42K	Free; paid from $67	Dofollow
Tip Season	44	30K	Free; paid from $99	Dofollow
Insidr AI	47	28K	Free	Dofollow
AI With Me	58	19K	Free; paid from $19.90	Dofollow
BroUseAI	11	18K	Free; paid from $29	Dofollow
Altern	50	17K	Free	Dofollow
ToolScout	28	15K	Free	Dofollow
The AI Navigator	28	14K	Free	Dofollow
ANYFP	32	1K	Free	Dofollow
AgentHunter	63	564	Free; paid from $39	Dofollow
AI Tools Marketer	44	197	Free	Dofollow

Paid directories with followed links and at least 30,000 visits a month:

Directory	DR	Monthly visits	Cost to list	Link
There's An AI For That	77	5.1M	Paid, from $49	Dofollow
Toolify	73	1.1M	Paid, from $99	Dofollow
TopAI.tools	64	678K	Paid, from $47	Dofollow
Easy With AI	59	168K	Paid, from $125	Dofollow
OpenTools	69	110K	Paid	Dofollow
Powerusers AI	33	92K	Paid, from $69	Dofollow
AiTools	43	68K	Paid, from $37	Dofollow

A followed link from a DR 70 directory helps a new site's Domain Rating a little. It won't make Google rank a thin page, and a pile of low-traffic directory links is the pattern Google's spam policies describe. Pick directories for their audience first and treat the link as a bonus. Our guide on dofollow directories for startups covers how to check a link yourself.

Directories for AI agents and MCP servers

Built an agent or an MCP server? General AI tool directories will list you, but these 16 are where developers look for one.

MCP registries

Directory	DR	Monthly visits	Cost to list	Link
MCP Market	60	1.6M	Free; paid from $29	Not checked
Smithery	78	341K	Free	Not checked
MCP.so	73	327K	Free	Not checked
Glama	75	214K	Free; paid from $49/mo	Not checked
MCP.Directory	38	127K	Free	Not checked
OpenTools	69	110K	Paid	Dofollow
PopularAiTools.ai	42	21K	Free	Not checked

Guides: submit to MCP.so, publish to Smithery and list on Glama.

AI agent directories

Directory	DR	Monthly visits	Cost to list	Link
AI Agents List	36	73K	Free	Not checked
AI Agents Directory	74	70K	Free	Dofollow
Infrabase	26	32K	Free; paid from $29/mo	Not checked
AgentLocker	35	32K	Free	Not checked
Wavel	43	6K	Paid, from $29	Not checked
AI Agents Live	25	2K	Free	Not checked
AgentWork.Tools	49	968	Free	Not checked
AIWget	30	688	Paid, from $19.90	Not checked
AgentHunter	63	564	Free; paid from $39	Dofollow

What to prepare before you submit

Most AI directory forms ask for the same things in slightly different shapes. Across the 108 directory forms we've parsed, the most common fields are your URL, email, product name, description, category and tagline. About one form in six also asks for pricing, a logo and social links, and a few want a demo video.

• Tool name and website.
• A tagline in three lengths. The usual limit is 160 characters, but some cap it at 60 (Product Hunt and TinyLaunch do) and others allow up to 300. Write a 60-character version first and expand it.
• Short and long descriptions. Limits run from 90 to 5,000 characters. Have a 150-character version and a 500-word version ready.
• Category and tags. Pick the task your tool does ("meeting notes", "image upscaling"), not just "AI". That's how people browse these sites.
• Pricing model. Free, freemium or paid, plus the starting price. AI directories filter on this, and a wrong label is a common reason a listing gets edited or rejected.
• A square logo, two or three screenshots, and a short demo video if you have one.

Write the tagline around the task, not the brand: "Turn YouTube videos into blog posts" tells a visitor more than "The AI content platform". Our guide on writing an AI tool directory listing has examples.

A submission order that works

1. Week 1: the big ones. There's An AI For That, plus the free directories with 100,000+ visits that fit your tool (Future Tools, Artificin, AI Valley and AI Tools Directory, or the MCP registries). These are the listings that bring visitors.
2. Week 2: the dofollow and niche directories. Work through the free dofollow table above and any directory that has a category exactly matching your tool.
3. Week 3: the paid listings you decided are worth it, and a launch platform like Product Hunt or Uneed if you're doing a launch. See sites like Product Hunt.
4. After that: track what's live. Record each listing URL and check which ones send visitors. Our guide on measuring directory referral traffic shows how.

Spread the submissions out and write a different description for each directory. The same text pasted into 60 forms in one afternoon is the top reason in our guide to why directory submissions get rejected.

Submitting with your own AI agent

AgentLaunch is a directory-submission kit you open in Claude Code, Codex or Cursor. You tell your agent to launch your tool. It reads your site and drafts a product brief for you to check, picks the AI directories that fit from the catalog of 300+, writes copy sized for each form and fills the forms in a real browser, starting each directory at least three minutes after the last.

It handles sign-ups, logins and email confirmations itself, and hands you the steps that are yours: payments like TAAFT's $49, CAPTCHAs, two-factor codes and any badge. Every listing is recorded with its public URL and link type. The Self-Host License costs $149 once.

Frequently asked questions

Where should I submit my AI tool first?

There's An AI For That. It gets 5.1 million visits a month, a third of all the traffic across the 152 AI directories we track. Then the free directories with real traffic: Future Tools, Artificin, AI Valley and AI Tools Directory, or MCP Market, Smithery, MCP.so and Glama for an MCP server.

Are AI directories free?

Most are. Of 152 AI directories, 80 list your tool for free with no strings, 26 are free if you add their badge to your site, and 46 are paid only. The largest one, There's An AI For That, is paid.

How much does it cost to submit an AI tool?

Nothing, if you stick to the 80 free directories. Paid listings are usually cheap: the median one-time price is $19.90, and 68 of 82 cost $50 or less. TAAFT is $49 and Toolify is $99.

Which AI directories give dofollow backlinks?

Of the directories we've checked, 17 free ones with no badge have given listed tools a followed link, including Future Tools (DR 69), AI Agents Directory (DR 74), OpenFuture and AI Tools Directory. The full list is in the backlinks section above. Link policies change, so check your own listing once it's live.

How many AI directories should I submit to?

Start with 30 to 60 that fit your tool, spread over two or three weeks. Past that, most directories get under 10,000 visits a month and add very little.

How long does approval take?

Across our catalog, most directories that publish a review time say 24 to 48 hours, and a few say two to four weeks. Many AI directories sell a faster review as their paid upgrade.

Related guides

• How to submit to There's An AI For That (TAAFT)
• Free AI directories that list your tool without a backlink
• How to write an AI tool directory listing
• Dofollow directories for startups
• Automated directory submission tools compared
• Best startup directories, ranked by real traffic

See all 300+ directories with traffic, prices and badge rules in the AgentLaunch catalog.