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Free AI tool submission

Free AI tool submission works like this: you submit, and your tool gets the same editorial review, the same listing, and the same ongoing re-verification as any paid submission, in 20–25 days. Nothing goes on your site and nothing is asked of you. Getting listed is the easy part — staying accurate is the part that decides whether an assistant ever quotes you. That maintenance is what this page is about, and the numbers below are read live from the catalogue as you load it.

Free reviews are paused for now. Next update: 5 October 2026.

Submissions sent while paused are refused at the door — nothing is queued, nothing is lost; anything already in the queue keeps its place. Still open: RAC Verified — a written decision within 48 hours, refunded in full if we say no.

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Tools tracked

8,220

Every one re-checked on a running cycle

Re-verified this week

58.5%

Not a month — this week

AI assistants sending visitors

ChatGPTPerplexityClaudeGemini

Real referrals, named — not a vanity count

What you get, for nothing

  • A real editorial review by a human, against the same bar every tool faces.
  • A full listing — no reduced free tier, no locked fields, nothing held back behind a “claim your profile” upsell. If you work there you can confirm that, and then correct anything factual and see every issue our checks find on your private listing page on your site — but confirming unlocks nothing, because nothing is locked, and it moves no ranking.
  • Continuous maintenance. Of the 8,220 tools published here, 99.7% have had their stored facts re-checked in the last 30 days and 100% had every published link re-probed in the last 7, and that applies to free listings exactly as it does to paid ones.
  • Inclusion in everything downstream: category pages, comparisons, the stack planner, and the data we publish for AI assistants to read.

What “maintained” actually means

Most places you can list a tool take your description once and never look at it again. Two quarters later the pricing is wrong, the free tier is gone, and the page is quietly telling buyers something untrue about you. An assistant that reads it repeats the error. Here, three separate cycles run against every published listing, yours included, whether or not you ever pay us anything:

  • Availability probe — every published link (website, docs, changelog, repository) re-probed: 100% within the last 7 days, none older than 30 days.
  • Record verification — the stored facts re-checked: 58.5% within 7 days (4,810 of 8,220), 99.7% within 30 days.
  • Deep content refresh — pricing tiers, specs, "what's new" feeds, viability scores and editorial sections re-synthesised: 32.8% within 7 days; 1 have not had one yet.

Read from the catalogue when you loaded this page, not typed into it. On a bad week these numbers drop and the page says so.

There is a second half to it: when a tool dies, we notice. Links are re-probed, dead products are marked and unpublished, and the catalogue does not fill up with abandoned entries. That is worth as much to you as your own listing — being compared against six tools that shut down last year helps nobody.

Why the free lane exists

We need something a small platform cannot buy: a catalogue worth searching. Charging for every review would shrink it to whoever happened to feel urgent that week, which is not a catalogue — it is an ad board with a search box. Every approved tool makes the catalogue more useful to the buyers who search it, and that usefulness is the only asset here that compounds.

This lane used to ask for a link in return. It no longer does, for two reasons worth stating plainly. A link given in exchange for a review is a paid link under Google’s own policy and has to be marked as one, so it never carried the value it appeared to. And the requirement quietly stranded people: submissions that placed no link sat in a queue nobody looked at, which is a bad way to treat someone who has already done the work. Reviews are now funded by the vendors who choose to pay for speed, and nothing else is asked of anyone.

The one trade-off

You wait longer, you sit behind paid submissions in the review queue, and your page is built after theirs once approved. That is the entire catch, and we would rather write it plainly than have you submit and wonder why nothing is happening. Reviewer time is the one genuinely scarce thing here — paying is how somebody moves up the queue, and it is what funds the reviews nobody pays for. Nobody is penalised for not paying, and nothing about the listing you end up with is different.

Start a free review

Tell us about the tool. That is the whole process — nothing to place on your site, nothing to pay, and a person reads it against the same bar as any paid submission.

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Have a launch date? RAC Verified gets the decision within 48 hours for $79, puts your page at the front of the build queue, and includes an AI visibility snapshot at launch — refunded in full, automatically, if we say no.

Paid and free are treated identically in all rankings and recommendations. We reject tools that have paid us and approve tools that have not.

Questions

Is the free review actually the same review?▾
Yes, identically. Same editorial bar, same reviewer, same quality gates, same enrichment pipeline, same ongoing re-verification. The only thing the RAC Verified fee changes is how long you wait for the answer. There is no reduced free tier of the listing itself, and no badge marking which vendors paid.
Do I have to link to you?▾
No. Nothing goes on your site and nothing is asked of you. This lane used to require a link, and we removed the requirement for two reasons: a link given in exchange for a review is a paid link under Google’s own policy and has to be marked as one, so it never carried the value it appeared to — and submissions without a link sat in a queue nobody looked at, which is a poor way to treat someone who has already done the work.
Is the free listing worse than a paid one?▾
The listing itself is identical — same editorial bar, same data depth, same structured markup, same treatment in rankings and recommendations; payment never touches any of that. What differs is everything around timing and intelligence: a paid submission is decided within 48 hours, built first, pushed to search engines and the AI-readable catalog the day it goes live, and receives the "How AI sees you" snapshot naming which competitors assistants recommend instead, and gets the dated verified-live badge on day one. The badge itself is never sold — it is issued on our checks, and any listed tool that passes them can display it. A free submission reaches the same destination 20–25 days later, without any of that.
What if I do not want to pay?▾
Then do not. Once free reviews reopen your decision arrives within 20–25 days, nothing expires and nobody chases you. The listing you end up with is identical to a paid one. RAC Verified is worth it when a date is involved — a launch, a funding announcement, a Product Hunt slot — or when waiting a fortnight to find out is itself the problem; it is refunded in full if we say no, so the only thing at risk is the wait.

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