Submit Your AI Tool
Get your AI tool in front of thousands of developers, marketers, and creators — plus the AI platforms (ChatGPT, Perplexity) that cite us. Listing is free and includes a permanent dofollow backlink, with hand review currently clearing in a median of under an hour. The one paid option is $79 one-time, which runs the full 12-point AI-visibility scan on your tool and emails you the report, adds the 🛡️ Verified badge to your page and to your name in every browse grid, and skips review entirely. No subscription either way.
Four fields is all we need: your tool's name, its URL, a category and an email. Paste the URL and hit Autofill from my website and we'll draft the description, features and pricing from your own site — you just read them over and fix anything that's off.
🛡️ Most free listings clear same-day, but 2 have been waiting 22 days — Verified skips review entirely.
The one-time $79 Verified tier scans your tool's AI visibility and emails you the report, adds the badge to your page, and skips review entirely.
Hand review is currently clearing in a median of under an hour — 210 of the last 238 submissions were decided within a day. 6 free submissions are in hand review right now, and 2 of them have been waiting 22 days. A free listing gets the same tool page and the same permanent dofollow backlink as a paid one.
What the $79 actually buys
A 12-point AI-visibility scan of your own tool, emailed to you — the same report sold at $9 — plus the Verified badge beside your name in every grid, and no review queue. Hand review is moving in a median of under an hour for most makers, but it has a tail — right now 2 submissions have been sitting in it, the oldest for 22 days. Verified skips review completely and publishes within minutes of payment. One-time, not a subscription.
Everything else is the same either way — free listings get the same tool page and the same permanent dofollow backlink, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
Want a monthly placement instead — priority position, homepage slots, a review article? Featured plans start at $19/mo.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is it really free to list?
Yes. A free listing gets your own tool page with description, features, pricing, and a permanent dofollow backlink — the same page a paid listing gets. Free submissions are reviewed by hand, currently in a median of under an hour. The live queue count is shown on the Free option above so you can see the real state before you choose — including how long the oldest one has been waiting.
What's the $79 Verified option?
It runs our full 12-point AI-visibility scan against your tool the moment you pay — the same scan sold on its own at $9 — and emails you the report: which prompts named you, which named a competitor instead, and the exact wording the model used. That is the part a free listing structurally cannot include, because every run costs us real money. On top of it you get the 🛡️ Verified badge on your tool page and beside your name in the browse, category and newest-tool grids, so it is on screen while a buyer is still choosing between you and the tools next to you. It skips hand review, so the page publishes within minutes of payment. It's a one-time fee, not a subscription, and the listing doesn't expire.
Why isn't there a cheaper paid tier?
There was — $39, sold purely as "skip the review queue" — and we retired it on 2026-08-19. Measured against our own records right now, 210 of the last 238 submissions were decided within 24 hours, at a median of under an hour. A tier whose entire pitch was speed couldn't be honestly priced against a queue moving that fast, so we cut it rather than keep charging for it. The tail is real, though: right now 6 submissions are still waiting, the oldest for 22 days. Verified is the only way to be certain you are not the one in it. Verified is a different purchase: it scans your tool's AI visibility and sends you the report — something we cannot hand to every listing because each run costs us money — and the badge and instant publishing come with it.
Do I get a dofollow backlink?
Yes. Every listing — free, Verified or Featured — includes a permanent dofollow link back to your site from a relevant AI tools directory; the link is never held behind the paywall. What Verified adds on top is the AI-visibility scan of your own tool and the report that comes with it, plus the 🛡️ badge on the page that link points at.
How fast does my listing go live?
Free listings are reviewed by hand — you get an email with the live URL as soon as yours publishes, currently in a median of under an hour. Some take longer: we show the live queue depth and the age of the oldest waiting submission right on the Free option, so you can judge it yourself rather than take our word for it. Verified ($79) skips review entirely and publishes automatically within minutes of payment.
What's your refund policy?
Because listings publish instantly and are yours to keep permanently, we don't offer refunds once a listing is live. If something's broken on our end — payment succeeded but no listing appeared — email shibley@apistatuscheck.com and we'll fix it or refund you, no argument.
Can I edit my listing after it's live?
Yes — email shibley@apistatuscheck.com with the changes (description, pricing, features, logo) and we'll update it.
What's the difference between this and Featured?
A directory listing (free or $79 Verified) gets you in with search/category visibility, permanently, for a one-time price or nothing at all. Featured plans (from $19/mo) are a subscription that adds priority placement, a Featured badge, and — on higher tiers — homepage placement and a dedicated review article.