{"id":1058,"date":"2023-11-28T17:13:59","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T16:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simon-frey.com\/blog\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2026-03-30T15:13:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:13:58","slug":"where-to-list-your-ai-tool-what-directories-are-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simon-frey.com\/blog\/where-to-list-your-ai-tool-what-directories-are-worth-it\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the best place to promote your AI tool? These directories are worth it&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am currently building an <a href=\"https:\/\/10levelup.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AI video cutting tool (10LevelUp.com)<\/a> and as a launch strategy, I want to add it to a few of those &#8220;AI Tools\/There is an AI for this&#8221; website lists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They all promise me infinite traffic, money and life happiness. But let&#8217;s be honest, that can&#8217;t be true \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this post, I am evaluating the different sites, based on their <a href=\"https:\/\/similarweb.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">similarweb<\/a><strong> traffic numbers <\/strong>(which are at least somewhat neutral),<strong> social media following<\/strong> and <strong>list price<\/strong>. This will help me (and, in effect, also you as the reader) decide which one it is worth spending my hard-earned money on. <strong>I am not affiliated with any of these sites, just my honest review!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"lazyblock-ad-Z23TabA wp-block-lazyblock-ad\"><div style=\"display:block;font-family:sans-serif; border:2px solid #00000020;padding: 0.5em;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;\">\n  <div style=\"display:flex;justify-content:center;align-items:center;gap:10px;\">\n  <div style=\"line-height: 1.3em;text-align:left;\"><h3>Highly skilled DevOps\/SRE Freelancer<\/h3>\n  <p>I am Simon, the author of this blog. And I have great news: <b style=\"font-weight:bold;\">You can work with me<\/b><\/p>\n  <p>As DevOps and Infrastructure freelancer, I will help you choose the right Infrastructure technology for your company, fix your cloud problems and support your team in building scalable products.<\/p>\n  <p>I work with Golang, Docker, Kubernetes, Google Cloud, AWS and Terraform.<\/p>\n  <p>Checkout my <a href=\"https:\/\/simon-frey.com\/cv\" target=\"_blank\">CV<\/a> to learn more or directly contact me via the button below.<\/p>\n  <\/div>  \n  <img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/simon-frey.com\/cv\/img\/simon-frey.jpg\" alt=\"Simon Frey Header image\" style=\"height:10em;\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\">\n\n  <\/div>\n  \n  <a href=\"mailto:contact@simon-frey.com\" style=\"display:block;text-align:center;color:black;text-decoration:none;border:solid 2px black;padding:10px;border-radius:5px;margin-top:1em;\">Let&#8217;s work together!<\/a>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Website<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Similiarweb Traffic (25.10-28.11)<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Minimum Cost<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Dofollow-link (good for SEO)<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Socials<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Will I list?<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\ud83d\udc9a futuretools.io<\/td><td>1.207 M<\/td><td>Free<\/td><td>Yes<\/td><td>Twitter: 71k<\/td><td>Yes. It is free and has massive amounts of traffic. Sure will list<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\ud83d\udc9a <a href=\"https:\/\/topai.tools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">topai.tools<\/a><\/td><td>2.280M<\/td><td>$35<\/td><td>Yes<\/td><td>Twitter: 991<br>Facebook: 237<br>Instagram: 384<br>LinkedIn: 238<\/td><td>Yes. Most traffic of all sites, at a decent price point.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\ud83d\udc9a <a href=\"https:\/\/easywithai.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">easywithai.com<\/a><\/td><td>1.600M<\/td><td>$50<\/td><td>Yes<\/td><td>None<\/td><td>Yes. The price seems fair for the amount of traffic they have.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\ud83d\udc9a <a href=\"https:\/\/theresanaiforthat.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">theresanaiforthat.com<\/a><\/td><td>3.701M<\/td><td>$199<\/td><td>Yes<\/td><td>Twitter: 16k<br>LinkedIn: 26k<br>Newsletter: 400k*<\/td><td>Yes. The price is high, but their traffic is the highest on this list. On top of that, they guarantee that you get listed in their newsletter, which is a good bang for the buck.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\ud83d\udc9a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toolify.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">toolify.ai<\/a><\/td><td>620,771<\/td><td>$49<\/td><td>Yes<\/td><td>None<\/td><td>Yes. Traffic is good for the price. And they list within 48 hours, which is appealing to me.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\ud83d\udc9b <a href=\"https:\/\/saasaitools.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">saasaitools.com<\/a><\/td><td>17,331<\/td><td>Free\/97$<\/td><td>No<\/td><td>None<\/td><td>I will list for free, but $97 to skip the line is not worth it, IMO. If they add us after 30 days, so be it, if not, then hey, nothing lost.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\ud83d\udc9b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidr.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">insidr.ai<\/a><\/td><td>219,230<\/td><td>Free<\/td><td>Yes, but via redirect<\/td><td>LinkedIn: 140<br>Instagram: 787<\/td><td>Yes (it&#8217;s free, right? You can&#8217;t go wrong with that)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\ud83d\udc9b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trybestaitools.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">trybestaitools.com<\/a><\/td><td>&lt;5000 (not enough data)<\/td><td>Free<\/td><td>No<\/td><td>None<\/td><td>Yes. As you might have figured by now, I like free \ud83d\ude09<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\ud83d\udc9b <a href=\"https:\/\/aitoolsdirectory.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">aitoolsdirectory.com<\/a><\/td><td>18,836<\/td><td>Free<\/td><td>Yes, but for affiliates via redirect<\/td><td>None<\/td><td>Maybe. I found them on the first page of Google, which is great, but their traffic is not too big, and they want a lot of data<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\ud83d\udc9b <a href=\"https:\/\/genai.works\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">genai.works<\/a><\/td><td>41,587<\/td><td>Free<\/td><td>Yes<\/td><td>LinkedIn: 1.5M<\/td><td>Yes. Page is quite buggy, but after a bit back and forth it loaded. Added 10LevelUp (you know, as it is free ;)). Additionally I would love to get featured in their LinkedIn (which is god damn massive, biggest AI LinkedIn I saw so far)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\ud83d\udc9b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coletivoia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">coletivoia.com<\/a><\/td><td>10,109<\/td><td>Free<\/td><td>No<\/td><td>Instagram: 42k<br>Twitter: 385<\/td><td>Yes, as it is free and has a slightly different market. (Brazil)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\ud83e\udd0d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aitoolsclub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">aitoolsclub.com<\/a><\/td><td>47,938<\/td><td>$299<\/td><td>Yes<\/td><td>Twitter: 755<\/td><td>No. Not enough traffic to justify this insane price point. It might be interesting to list on their main\/partner website (marktechpost.com), but that is even more expensive. Not for now.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\ud83e\udd0d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futurepedia.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">futurepedia.io<\/a><\/td><td>981,339<\/td><td>$158<\/td><td>No<\/td><td>Newsletter: 180k*<\/td><td>No. Right now, it&#8217;s too expensive for what we need. I thought about newsletter sponsorship, but &#8220;AI professionals&#8221; are not the target audience of our tool. (Rather, people in the video editing sector)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\ud83e\udd0d <a href=\"https:\/\/aiscout.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">aiscout.net<\/a><\/td><td>50,683<\/td><td>$20<\/td><td>Yes<\/td><td>Facebook: 36<br>LinkedIn: 127<br>Twitter: 28<\/td><td>No. Their social following is tiny, and the traffic on the site is not great. It&#8217;s not worth spending money here. And they just showed me the price after I had already submitted the tool. Super shady.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\ud83e\udd0d <a href=\"https:\/\/aitoolhunt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">aitoolhunt.com<\/a><\/td><td>560,694<\/td><td>No idea<\/td><td>Yes<\/td><td>Twitter: 427<\/td><td>No. The site broke on me, can&#8217;t log in. I can&#8217;t submit the tool. Will try again later.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\ud83e\udd0d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toolhunter.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">toolhunter.ai<\/a><\/td><td>&lt; 5,000 (not enough data)<\/td><td>Free<\/td><td>Yes<\/td><td>None<\/td><td>No. Their main tool is a direct competitor to ours; don&#8217;t trust them to actually care about this directory. On top of that, the traffic is tiny, making it even less interesting.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\ud83e\udd0d <a href=\"https:\/\/opentools.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">opentools.ai<\/a><\/td><td>180,101<\/td><td>$150<\/td><td>Yes<\/td><td>Twitter: 24k<br>LinkedIn: 3.5k<br>Newsletter: 40k*<\/td><td>No. Their traffic is okay-ish, but for the price point, other pages offer more. I like that their Twitter and LinkedIn are that big (and the posts have engagement, so it seems like they are not fake). If they guarantee a Twitter &amp; LinkedIn mention, this would be a better deal.<s> I will try to reach out to them about this.<\/s> Checked with them Twitter is $500 extra and LinkedIn $300 extra&#8230;.so stays a no-no. Too expensive IMO<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\ud83e\udd0d <a href=\"https:\/\/findmyaitool.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">findmyaitool.com<\/a><\/td><td>143,543<\/td><td>$50<\/td><td>No<\/td><td>LinkedIn: 499<\/td><td>No. Traffic is too small for the price point. I like their website design, though, and the approach that they sometimes feature tools in their shorts.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\ud83e\udd0d <a href=\"https:\/\/ai.fosshub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ai.fosshub.com<\/a><\/td><td>21,808<\/td><td>$188\/year<\/td><td>Yes<\/td><td>None<\/td><td>No. Definetly not. $200 PER YEAR for shitty traffic. Nope, not gonna do it.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>*Newsletter numbers are as advertised on the websites. I&#8217;m quite sure it&#8217;s less than that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you know of more sites, please reach out to me, so I can evaluate and potentially add them. You can reach me on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/simonfrey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a>. Oh, and while you are here, do me a favor and check out <a href=\"https:\/\/10levelup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">10LevelUp.com<\/a>, currently putting a lot of work into it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently building an AI video cutting tool (10LevelUp.com) and as a launch strategy, I want to add it to a few of those &#8220;AI Tools\/There is an AI for this&#8221; website lists. 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