For AI tool makers

What it costs to list an AI tool with us

The AI tool listing cost here is $79 for a same-day decision, or nothing at all if you are happy to wait 7–10 working days. Those are the only two lanes. Both buy review speed — neither buys the decision, your ranking, or a word of what we write about you. If we reject a paid submission, the fee is refunded automatically.

  • 8,155 tools verified
  • 100% re-verified within 30 days
  • Rejected = refunded

Getting reviewed

Every tool goes through the same editorial review and the same quality gates. The only difference between these two is how long you wait.

Free lane

Free Review

Freeno link, no payment

Submit and wait — nothing to place on your site, nothing to pay. Your review lands in 7–10 working days.

  • The same editorial review as any paid submission
  • Full listing, maintained free for as long as it is live
  • Structured markup, category pages, comparisons and the stack planner
  • Identical rankings, scores and verdict to any paid submission

What the link never buys: your ranking, your score, or our verdict.

Start a free review

Four of the biggest AI platforms have no free lane at all.

One-time

Fast-Track Review

$79one-time

A same-day editorial decision, for when you are launching and cannot wait a week.

  • Decision the same day, not in 7–10 working days
  • No link required
  • Rejected = refunded in full, automatically
  • Zero visible trace on your listing — no badge, nothing sponsored

What the fee never buys: your ranking, your score, or our verdict.

See how Fast-Track works

Rejected = refunded in full, automatically. No request needed.

Knowing whether AI recommends you

Optional, and entirely separate from being listed. These answer the question a founder cannot answer alone: when someone asks an AI assistant for the best tools in your category, does it say your name?

Subscription

AI Visibility Report

$49per month

Twice a week we ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity what a buyer would ask — and tell you whether you were named.

  • 10 real buyer questions, across 3 engines, twice weekly
  • Which competitors get recommended instead of you
  • Your listing analytics — views, clicks, saves, plan recommendations
  • What we re-verified on your listing this week

The report observes. It never changes how your tool is ranked, described or recommended.

What is in the report

Cancel any time; cancellation takes effect at the end of the paid billing cycle.

One-time

Deep Report

$99one-time

The same analysis, run deeper and once — including why the AI recommended your competitor instead.

  • More questions, more engines, delivered within 24 hours
  • The sources each engine trusted — and which you are missing from
  • A second run seven days later, free, so you can see what moved
  • Credited against your first two months if you subscribe

An audit of your visibility, not a promise to change it. We report; we do not intervene.

What is in a Deep Report

For founders who want the answer without a subscription.

Where the money goes

Why we charge anything at all

A listing here is not a row in a database that goes stale the day after you submit it. It is maintained data, and the maintenance is the expensive part. All ten of these run for free listings exactly as they do for paid ones.

  1. 01

    We opt IN to AI training

    Google-Extended and CCBot are the two switches publishers use to keep their content OUT of model training. We allow both, deliberately. Most sites that discovered those switches used them to close the door.

  2. 02

    Assistants are allowed to read you

    GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, OAI-SearchBot and Google-Extended are all explicitly allowed in our robots.txt — open it and check. A page an assistant cannot read is a page it can never cite you from.

  3. 03

    We publish a file written for models

    rightaichoice.com/llms.txt is generated live from the database every time it is requested, freshness stamps included. Not a copy of the sitemap — a document whose only audience is an AI reading about the tools we cover.

  4. 04

    Your page is rebuilt, not stored

    A spec pipeline re-scrapes pricing, plans, limits and features across the catalogue every ten minutes. Your listing is not a form you filled in once; it is a page that goes and checks.

  5. 05

    We follow your changelog and your blog

    Every one of our published tools had its changelog and blog re-read within the last 30 days, hourly in rotation. Ship something and the listing reflects it without you telling us.

  6. 06

    We read the room around you

    Community sentiment three times a day, tutorials and how-tos discovered hourly, mentions synced nightly. Buyers see what people actually say about your tool, not only what you say.

  7. 07

    We notice when things break

    Link health every two hours, shutdown detection every three days, and a viability signal recomputed three times a day. Dead competitors get caught — and so would you, which is exactly why the catalogue is worth being in.

  8. 08

    You become an answer, not a listing

    Buyers do not ask an assistant for a list; they ask "X or Y for my team?". Complete data puts you inside comparison and alternatives pages, which is the shape that question actually has.

  9. 09

    Machine-readable by construction

    Product, Offer and FAQ markup on every listing, a live sitemap, and same-day IndexNow submission. Assistants quote specifics — pricing tiers, limits, integrations — and specifics only travel if they are structured.

  10. 10

    We never sell placement

    Fees buy speed and queue position, nothing else. The data, the depth and the verdict are identical whether you pay or not — and always will be.

Of the 8,155 tools verified, every single one has been re-verified within the last 30 days. That is compute and review time, and it is funded by the vendors who choose to pay for speed. It has never been funded by selling placement, which is the one revenue stream that would quietly destroy the thing being sold.

“Paid and free are treated identically in all rankings and recommendations.”

That sentence ships in our terms and on every page where we ask for money, because it is the only thing that makes the rest of the catalogue worth reading. Rankings, scores, verdicts, inclusion in a “best of” list, and followed links from our editorial content are not for sale at any price — not to the biggest payer, not to anyone. The moment one listing can be bought, every listing is worthless.

We reject tools that have paid us, and approve tools that have not. That is not a policy we tolerate; it is the product.

How that compares

Prices verified by hand in August 2026. Our full breakdown of 15+ platforms, including the ones we would send you to instead of us, lives in the submission guide.

PlatformFree lanePaidRefund if rejected
RightAIChoiceYes — nothing required$79 same-dayAutomatic
There's An AI For ThatNo$49 / $347Automatic
FuturepediaNo$247 / $497Not advertised
ToolifyYes — 2–4 week queue$99 (48h)Not advertised
AIxploriaYes — 700+ queue$79 / $279Automatic

Four of the five largest AI platforms charge before they will look at your tool at all.

Questions vendors actually ask

How much does it cost to list an AI tool on RightAIChoice?▾
Nothing. A free submission needs no link and no payment — your review lands in 7–10 working days. If you need a decision today, Fast-Track Review is a one-time fee, charged in your local currency, and refunded in full if we reject your tool. That is the only difference between the two.
Does paying improve my ranking or score?▾
No, and this is the one thing we will never sell. Paid and free submissions are treated identically in all rankings and recommendations. A paid review leaves zero visible trace on your listing — there is no sponsored badge, because nothing was sponsored. If a platform will sell you a ranking, it is selling everyone else one too, which is what makes their rankings worthless.
What happens if you reject my tool after I have paid?▾
You are refunded in full, automatically, with no request needed. The refund is issued to your original payment method when the rejection is recorded and typically appears within 5–7 business days depending on your bank. The fee buys the speed of the review lane, never the outcome of the review.
Why is there a free lane at all?▾
Because a catalogue only has value to buyers if it is broad, and charging every vendor would shrink it to whoever felt urgent that week. Free reviews are funded by the vendors who choose to pay for speed. Neither lane buys a better review — we reject paying vendors and approve free ones, and if that ever stopped being true the whole catalogue would be worth nothing to the buyers who use it.
What is the AI Visibility Report, and why is it a subscription?▾
It answers one question every week: when a buyer asks ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity for the best tools in your category, does the answer name you? It is a subscription because the answer genuinely changes week to week — a snapshot tells you where you stood, not where you are going. If you would rather not commit, the one-time Deep Report covers the same ground more deeply and credits against your first two months if you subscribe later.
Do I have to pay to stay listed?▾
No. Once your tool is approved it stays listed and maintained for free, indefinitely. We re-scrape and re-verify pricing, features and status on a rolling schedule whether or not you have ever paid us anything. Everything on this page is optional.
Does RightAIChoice allow AI crawlers, and can assistants cite our listings?▾
Yes, and it is verifiable at rightaichoice.com/robots.txt in ten seconds. GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, anthropic-ai, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended and CCBot are all explicitly allowed. Google-Extended and CCBot are the two switches publishers use to keep content out of model training, and we leave both open deliberately. We also publish rightaichoice.com/llms.txt, generated live from the database with freshness stamps, whose only audience is a model reading about the tools we cover. This applies to every listing, free or paid.
How current is the data on a listing?▾
Maintained continuously rather than captured once. Published links are re-probed every two hours; a spec pipeline re-scrapes pricing, plans, limits and features across the catalogue every ten minutes; changelogs and blogs are re-read in rotation; community sentiment refreshes three times a day; and a viability signal is recomputed daily. Dead products are detected and unpublished rather than left in the catalogue. None of this is a paid tier — it runs for free listings identically.
Can I pay to be featured, ranked higher, or included in a "best of" list?▾
No, at any price. Rankings, scores, verdicts and inclusion in "best of" lists are not for sale, and there is no sponsored placement, featured slot or boosted tier to buy. We reject tools that have paid us and approve tools that have not. The only things money changes are how quickly your submission is decided, where it sits in the build queue, and whether you receive a one-off AI visibility snapshot at launch. A published listing carries no badge or trace of payment.

Ready when you are

Submitting takes a couple of minutes and you pick your lane before you type anything. Free if you can wait; Fast-Track if you have a date — refunded in full, automatically, if we say no.

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