Not every AI directory is worth the form. These are the ones we've put AIVeed into, with a straight note on what each is worth. If you're listing a tool of your own, start here: it's the same list we work through, and every link on this page is do-follow.
The directories
A curated AI tools catalogue organised into collections and tags. The free route is the weakest trade on this page: you display their badge, wait three to four weeks for review, and get no do-follow link back. Paid tiers from $9.90 cut review to 48 hours or less and are where the link value lives.
Our free listing is live, but its page carries <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow"> — set on our page, not site-wide — so the link passes nothing and the page isn’t indexed. That matches their pricing table, which marks the free tier "No dofollow".
A catalogue of around a thousand AI tools and browser extensions, sorted by category and tag. The free tier gets you one do-follow link in exchange for their badge, with review quoted at up to 30 days; $9.90 one-time buys three links, faster placement and no badge requirement.
Do-follow confirmed on our own live listing: the links to aiveed.io carry no rel attribute. Their terms say they check regularly and unpublish free listings whose badge has gone, so this card is what keeps ours up.
An AI tools catalogue where each listing reads as a review page, with features, pricing and a list of alternatives alongside it. Useful less for browsing than for showing up when someone searches for your tool by name, since the listing page is built around exactly that query.
Do-follow confirmed on our own listing: the links to aiveed.io carry rel="noopener" or "noopener noreferrer", with no nofollow. Their submit and pricing pages sit behind a Cloudflare bot check, so we can’t quote the terms. Check the categories they assign — ours arrived with a few that had nothing to do with video.
A browsable AI tools catalogue of roughly 700 listings, filed under multiple categories rather than ranked. The free tier is billed as limited-time and is a straight trade: their badge on your site, kept there permanently, in exchange for up to three do-follow links and a listing they promise within 72 hours.
Do-follow confirmed on our own live listing: all three links to aiveed.io carry no rel attribute and the page has no robots meta. The badge is a standing condition of the free tier, so removing this card later would put the listing at risk.
A hand-researched catalogue of under two hundred AI tools, organised by the marketing job each one does and deliberately neither scored nor ranked. Small and focused: its video and image section held five tools when we looked. Free submissions queue for up to two weeks and only start once their badge is live on your site.
Every other listing we checked links out with rel="nofollow", so expect the same for ours. $39 one-time publishes within 24 hours with no badge.
A hand-reviewed catalogue of a few hundred AI tools, sorted by category rather than ranked or upvoted. Every submission is checked by a person: they quote 48 hours for a free listing and 24 for a paid one, then email you once it is approved.
Do-follow confirmed across four live listings — the Visit link carries rel="noopener noreferrer" and there is no nofollow, sponsored or ugc anywhere on those pages. Two conditions worth knowing: they supply no badge image, only the text link above, and they state the listing stays up "as long as the backlink remains on your site", so removing this card later would cost us the listing.
A young AI tools catalogue of around 150 listings, with categories, use cases and both upvote and domain-rating rankings. The free tier is generous on paper — three do-follow links, listed within 72 hours — in exchange for a backlink to them; $9.90 one-time removes that requirement.
Other live listings link out with no rel attribute, so do-follow looks likely, but we’ll confirm on ours once it appears. Free listings come with no customer support.
A daily launch board in the Product Hunt mould — products go up dated, get upvoted, and every submission is reviewed by hand rather than published automatically. The free tier asks for a backlink on your homepage or footer and lists you within 30 days; paid tiers from $29 skip the queue and drop the link requirement.
Do-follow confirmed in the page source of another founder’s live listing — the outbound link carries only rel="noopener", with no nofollow anywhere on the page. We’ll re-check on our own listing once it goes up. Third-party trackers put Fazier around DR 81, but we haven’t verified that in Ahrefs ourselves, so the DR column stays blank.
A daily launch board for AI products, sorted into a dozen categories and ranked by upvotes. Three ways in: submit free and change nothing on your site, submit free and display their badge, or pay $9.99 to skip the queue. The two free routes are manually reviewed, which they say takes up to seven days.
The tier decides the link. We sampled eight live listings: six carried a plain rel="noopener noreferrer" and two carried nofollow, which matches SimilarLabs stating that the do-follow is what the badge or the payment buys — submit free with no badge and you can expect a no-follow. Their badge is also meant to sit on your homepage, not a resource page.
A catalogue of around 800 SaaS and AI products across some 35 categories, browsed rather than upvoted. Free listings carry one do-follow link and go live immediately once they can see their badge on your site, or within seven days otherwise; $19 one-time buys three links and no badge.
Their badge URL returns an image for any product slug, so a working badge proves nothing about whether a listing exists — ours doesn’t appear on their site yet. Free listings are unpublished if the badge disappears for more than seven days.
A small curated directory of a couple of hundred tools and SaaS products across two dozen categories. Free listings are reviewed within 48 hours but require a do-follow backlink in your site footer; $9.99 one-time drops that requirement. Listing descriptions on the site are written by ChatGPT, which shows.
Their submission form wants a description of at least 500 characters. The Featured tier is priced per month, so check whether it renews before paying.
An AI tools directory running since 2023, organised as a browsable catalogue rather than a ranked leaderboard. The free tier is genuinely free, but it is explicitly a trade: ToolPilot states that a link back to their site is mandatory for every free listing, confirmed by URL or email before you go live.
Paid placement tiers exist, but the pricing lives inside an image on their submission page rather than in text, so we can’t quote it here.
Questions about this page
Why does this page exist at all?
Plenty of directories will only list you if you link back to them. We think that’s a fair trade, so we do it — but out in the open, on a page anyone can read, with an honest write-up of each one rather than a badge dump. If a directory isn’t worth your time, we say so.
Are the links on this page do-follow?
Yes. Every link out from this page is do-follow — no nofollow, sponsored or ugc anywhere on it. That’s the trade, and it holds whatever the directory sends back; where we say a directory returns a do-follow link, we checked that in the page source of a live listing rather than taking their word for it.