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 backlink, nofollow on the free tier, checked and published automatically . The one paid option is $79 one-time, which adds the 🛡️ Verified badge to your page and to your name in every browse grid — the one part of this tier nothing else on the site sells — and includes the $9 12-point AI-visibility scan of your tool rather than charging for it twice. No subscription either way.
Paste one URL and we do the rest: your tool's address is the first field — hit Autofill from my website and we'll draft the name, category, description, features and pricing from your own site, leaving your email as the only other thing to type. You just read it over and fix anything that's off.
🛡️ What money buys is the AI-visibility scan of your own tool, dofollow on that link and the badge — most free listings publish automatically within a minute, though 2 have been waiting more than 3 days, the oldest 5 days.
The one-time $79 Verified tier adds the badge to your page and includes the $9 12-point AI-visibility scan of your tool instead of charging for it twice.
Free listings are decided automatically — 1326 of the last 1561 submissions were decided within a day, and a site that doesn't pass on the first try is re-checked automatically within about 48 hours. 12 free submissions are awaiting a decision right now, and 2 of them have been waiting more than 3 days, the oldest 5 days. A free listing gets the same tool page as a paid one, and the same permanent link — on the free tier it carries rel="nofollow", and dofollow is what the paid tier adds.
What the $79 actually buys
The 🛡️ Verified badge beside your name in every grid a buyer browses, and on the tool page itself — the one part of this that is not sold anywhere else on the site — plus the 12-point AI-visibility scan of your own tool, which we sell on its own for $9 and include here rather than charge twice. Most free listings publish automatically within a minute, so Verified is not a way to publish faster. What it adds is the 12-point AI-visibility scan of your own tool, the report that comes with it, and the badge. One-time, not a subscription.
Everything else is the same either way — free listings get the same tool page and the same permanent link, pointed at your own domain. The one difference is rel: free is nofollow, paid is dofollow, 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 backlink — the same page a paid listing gets. The link on a free listing carries rel="nofollow": readers and AI assistants still follow it, search engines are told not to pass authority through it, and dofollow is the one thing the $79 tier buys. Free submissions are checked automatically — most publish within a minute, and a site that doesn't pass on the first try is re-checked automatically within about 48 hours. There is no hand-review queue. 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?
Three things. First, the 🛡️ Verified badge on your tool page and beside your name in the browse, category and newest-tool grids — permanent, public, on screen while a buyer is still choosing between you and the tools next to you, and the only part of this you cannot buy separately. Second, our full 12-point AI-visibility scan, run against your tool the moment you pay, with the per-prompt report emailed to you: which prompts named you, which named a competitor instead, and the exact wording the model used. That scan is the same one we sell on its own for $9 on /audit — it is included here, not charged twice. Third, dofollow on your link back to your own site — on a free listing that link carries rel="nofollow", so it sends readers but not search-engine authority. 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, 1326 of the last 1561 submissions were decided within 24 hours — most of them automatically, within a minute, and the rest by an automatic re-check within about 48 hours. 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 12 submissions are waiting on an automatic re-check, the oldest for 5 days. Verified is a different purchase: the badge is permanent and visible to every buyer and every AI assistant that reads the grid, and the AI-visibility scan of your tool comes with it.
Do I get a dofollow backlink?
Every listing — free, Verified or Featured — includes a permanent link back to your site from a relevant AI tools directory, and it is always your own canonical domain rather than a redirect. On a free listing that link carries rel="nofollow", so it sends readers without passing search-engine authority; the paid tiers make it dofollow. What Verified adds on top of that is the 🛡️ badge on the page that link points at, plus the $9 AI-visibility scan of your own tool and the report that comes with it, included rather than charged twice.
How fast does my listing go live?
Most of them publish straight away: 91% of the free listings we approved in the last 30 days went live automatically, in under a minute. A site that doesn't pass our automatic checks on the first try — usually because it didn't load for our checker — is re-checked automatically within about 48 hours, and you get an email with either the live URL or the exact reason. There is no hand-review queue. 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) is not a way to publish faster — it buys the AI-visibility scan of your tool and the badge.
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.