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Open Alternative: how to submit, cost, DR and traffic

Open Alternative is an alternatives directory with about 250K visits a month and a Domain Rating of 60. Paid, from $97. The product link is dofollow.

What Open Alternative is

OpenAlternative lists open-source alternatives to proprietary software, browsable by category, tag and license, with a weekly newsletter (about 8,000 subscribers).

Checked on Open Alternative's own pages in November 2026.

Open Alternative at a glance

What a listing on Open Alternative gets you

Only open-source projects fit. There's a free queue and a paid expedited option (from $97 in our check) to skip it.

Open Alternative pricing

• Standard: $97 one-time
• Premium: $137 one-time
• Ultimate: $197 per month

How to submit to Open Alternative

1. Search Open Alternative for your product first. If it's already listed, claim or update that listing instead of submitting again.
2. Open the submit page: openalternative.co/submit.
3. No account is needed to submit.
4. Fill in the form. When our agent walked it, it asked for your email.
5. The listing is paid (from $97). Pay only if this audience buys products like yours.
6. Save the listing URL once it's public, so you can check the link later.

What our agent saw on Open Alternative's submit flow

• Route: openalternative.co/submit → openalternative.co/auth/login.
• The flow ended at a qualification check (for example a badge, backlink or eligibility rule).

Recorded by our submission agent on 3 October 2026. Directory flows change, so check the live page.

Things to know before you submit

• Proprietary products won't be accepted.
• The free queue can be long; the paid option exists to skip it.

Tips for Open Alternative

• Name the proprietary tool you replace; the site is organised around that.
• A clear self-hosting guide in the repo helps it get featured in the self-hosted collection.

Submit to Open Alternative with your AI agent

AgentLaunch is a launch kit you open in Claude Code, Codex or Cursor. Your agent submits your product to 300+ hand-checked directories, Open Alternative included, from your own browser, and tracks every listing. On Open Alternative specifically:

• It already knows Open Alternative's submit flow from the path we recorded (openalternative.co/submit → openalternative.co/auth/login).
• Open Alternative needs no account, so it goes straight to the form.
• It writes the listing copy for Open Alternative's audience (alternatives directory) instead of pasting the same description everywhere.
• Open Alternative is paid, so the agent stops at the payment page and leaves the decision to you.
• When Open Alternative publishes the listing, it saves the URL and checks the dofollow link in your launch tracker.

How Open Alternative compares

• Traffic: #2 of 12 in its category, against a category median of 25K visits a month.
• Domain Rating: 60, against a category median of 52.
• Cost: 67% of directories in this category have a free route; Open Alternative isn't one of them.
• Links: 58% of this category give a dofollow product link; Open Alternative's is dofollow.
• Accounts: 58% need no account; Open Alternative doesn't either.

Open Alternative alternatives

Other directories in the same category (alternatives directory), by traffic:

FAQ

Terms used here: Alternatives directory · Domain Rating · Directory traffic · Dofollow link · Paid listing. Data across all 352 directories: launch directory statistics 2026.

Traffic and Domain Rating are third-party estimates. Prices, link types and rules change, so check Open Alternative's own page before paying.