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AI directory · checked 10 October 2026

How to submit to OpenTools

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Listings on OpenTools start at $199 a year; there is no free route. The listing we checked linked to the product with a plain, followed link.

Paid onlyListing from $199/yrLink observed: Followed — a plain link to the product, with no nofollow, ugc or sponsoredTop 200k
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At a glance

Free route
Paid only

The launch page states that tool submissions require a paid listing subscription; /submit and similar free paths were not found.

Paid listing from

$199 a year — Premium Listing (annual subscription)

Review time

Not stated.

Link on a live listing
Link observed: Followed — a plain link to the product, with no nofollow, ugc or sponsored

A plain link to the product, with no nofollow, ugc or sponsored. OpenTools does not say what kind of link it gives.

What we read: https://opentools.ai/tools/agentgpt, /tools/any-summary and /tools/appear-on-ai: the tool links point straight to the product with utm_source=opentools_web and rel="noopener noreferrer", no nofollow

Requirements
  • Sign in with Google or email before the offer and price are shown.
  • Tool name and public URL.
  • Annual subscription that renews until cancelled.
Audience, as they state it

782K+ monthly website visitors, 50,000+ newsletter subscribers, Domain Authority 70 (self-reported on the launch and advertise pages) Their figures, not ours.

Popularity

#187,400 in the Tranco top-1M list of 9 October 2026 — Top 200k.

Tools in their sitemap

6,392 tool pages, counted by us from the public sitemap on 16 August 2026.

Plans and prices

PlanPriceStated waitIncludes
Premium Listing (annual subscription)$199 a year—listing on OpenTools with a backlink (the page calls it a strong on-topic backlink); 4 days on the homepage; launch post on the OpenTools X account (23k followers) and LinkedIn (5k followers); renews annually until cancelled; price is not shown on the site's public pages: $199 per year is the figure third parties (Submitator, July 2026) saw at Stripe checkout
Newsletter sponsorship (price by email)By quote—sponsored placement for a 50,000+ subscriber newsletter; prices and availability are sent by email

How to submit to OpenTools, step by step

  1. 1Get the kit ready. Name, a one-line tagline, a short description, a square logo, two or three screenshots and your pricing in numbers — the same kit works on every directory.
  2. 2Open OpenTools's submit page. It is at opentools.ai/friends/launch-tool.
  3. 3Pick a plan. The cheapest paid listing is Premium Listing (annual subscription) at $199 a year.
  4. 4Check the rules first. Sign in with Google or email before the offer and price are shown. Tool name and public URL. Annual subscription that renews until cancelled.
  5. 5Once it is live, check the link. Open your listing, right-click the link to your site and choose Inspect: the rel attribute says whether it is a plain link, nofollow, ugc or sponsored.

What a listing there gets you

Subscription-only listing: the price first appears at Stripe checkout and recurs yearly. Tool links are followed and carry utm parameters.

  • 26 of the 46 AI directories whose live listings we read gave a plain link; OpenTools's was one of them.
  • By traffic rank it is number 6 of the 22 AI directories here that appear in the Tranco top-1M list.

OpenTools: the questions founders ask

How much does it cost to submit to OpenTools?

Listings on OpenTools start at $199 a year; there is no free route. The cheapest paid listing is Premium Listing (annual subscription).

Is OpenTools free?

No. The launch page states that tool submissions require a paid listing subscription; /submit and similar free paths were not found.

Does OpenTools give a dofollow backlink?

OpenTools does not say. The listing we checked linked to the product with a plain, followed link.

What does OpenTools require?

Sign in with Google or email before the offer and price are shown. Tool name and public URL. Annual subscription that renews until cancelled.

Sources

Read on 10 October 2026. Read on OpenTools's own pages; where a fact came from an archived copy or a third-party report, that source is listed too.

Next to the others

OpenTools is one of 46 AI directories we checked on the same day, with the same questions.

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