30 SaaS Directories to List Your Product On in 2026

If you only have one afternoon, list on G2, Capterra, Spotsaas, and Product Hunt — those four carry real buyer traffic. The other 26 directories below are each worth about an hour of your time, not a strategy. Every submission link on this page was checked in July 2026, so nothing here points at a dead site.

All 30 directories at a glance

Most “SaaS directory” lists are copied from each other, which is why half the links in them lead to parked domains or submission forms that stopped working in 2023. We fetched every submission page below before publishing and dropped the ones that failed. StackShare, a fixture of older lists, is the most notable cut — it has been functionally dormant since FOSSA acquired it in 2024, and its submission flow no longer works reliably.

Each entry gets a priority tier based on what it returns for the effort:

• High — platforms buyers search directly when comparing vendors, or launch events with real referral traffic. Skip these and you are invisible during bottom-of-funnel research.
• Medium — directories with a genuine niche audience, meaningful domain authority, or regional buyer coverage. Worth a submission, not worth a campaign.
• Low — link-only directories with little referral traffic. Fill these in during a slow afternoon, after everything above is done.

Directory	Type	Free listing	Paid option	Submission link	Priority
G2	Review platform	Yes	Marketing Solutions (custom quote)	g2.com/products/new	High
Capterra	Review platform	Yes	PPC from ~$2/click, ~$500/mo minimum	capterra.com/vendors	High
Spotsaas	Review platform	Yes	Managed growth plan (custom)	spotsaas.com/get-listed	High
TrustRadius	Review platform	Yes	Premium (custom; ~$30K/yr reported)	trustradius.com claim page	High
Product Hunt	Launch platform	Yes	None required	producthunt.com/launch	High
AlternativeTo	Pure directory	Yes	None	alternativeto.net (log in, then “Suggest new application”)	High
Gartner Peer Insights	Review platform	Yes (approval-gated)	None for listing	gartner.com vendor portal	High (enterprise)
GetApp	Review platform	Yes	PPC via G2 network (not public)	getapp.com/listing_guidelines	Medium
Software Advice	Review platform	Yes	Pay-per-lead (not public)	softwareadvice.com/vendors	Medium
SourceForge	Review platform	Yes	Upgraded listings (quote)	sourceforge.net vendor page	Medium
PeerSpot	Review platform	Yes (enterprise-gated)	Custom	peerspot.com contact form	Medium (enterprise)
SaaSHub	Pure directory	Yes	Featured placement (paid)	saashub.com/services/submit	Medium
GoodFirms	Review platform	Yes	Paid promotion (quote)	goodfirms.co/get-listed	Medium
SoftwareSuggest	Review platform	Yes	Contact for pricing	softwaresuggest.com/vendors	Medium (India/APAC)
Indie Hackers	Community	Yes	None	indiehackers.com/products	Medium
Hacker News (Show HN)	Community	Yes	None	news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html	Medium (dev products)
AppSumo	Marketplace	Revenue share, no fee	N/A (partnership model)	partners.appsumo.com/self-submission	Medium
Futurepedia	AI directory	No	$247 Basic / $497 Verified (one-time)	futurepedia.io/submit-tool	Medium (AI tools)
There’s An AI For That	AI directory	Monthly lottery only	$49 / $347 launch packages	theresanaiforthat.com/launch	Medium (AI tools)
BetaList	Launch platform	Legacy queue (~2 months)	Roughly $39–$299 by tier	betalist.com/submit	Medium (pre-launch)
Uneed	Launch platform	Yes	$9–$197/mo tiers	uneed.best/submit-a-tool	Low
MicroLaunch	Launch platform	Yes (~40 spots/mo)	Pro Launch $39	microlaunch.net (“New Launch” button)	Low
DevHunt	Launch platform	Yes	None	devhunt.org (submit via nav)	Low (dev tools)
Fazier	Launch platform	Yes (backlink required)	$19–$149 tiers	fazier.com/submit	Low
Launching Next	Pure directory	Yes (2–4 month backlog)	$99 expedited	launchingnext.com/submit	Low
Startup Stash	Pure directory	Yes	Paid placement offered	startupstash.com/add-listing	Low
Slashdot (software section)	Review platform	Yes	Unclear	slashdot.org/software (“Add Your Software”)	Low
Crozdesk	Review platform	Yes	Via RevLeads vendor portal	vendor.revleads.com	Low
Clutch	Review platform	Yes	Sponsorship (quote)	clutch.co/get-listed	Low (services focus)
F6S	Community	Yes	None	f6s.com (company profile after signup)	Low

The directories that actually matter

Ten platforms account for nearly all the buyer traffic in this list. One structural fact changed the math in 2026: G2 acquired Capterra, GetApp, and Software Advice from Gartner in a deal announced January 29 and closed February 5, 2026, reported at roughly $110 million. All three former Gartner Digital Markets sites now route vendor submissions through a single G2 Digital Markets portal, so one submission covers four platforms. That alone cuts your setup time in half compared with 2025.

G2

G2 is the largest B2B software review platform and the one buyers check late in their evaluation, when budget already exists. A basic profile is free — create it at g2.com/products/new — but the listing does nothing until it has reviews: you need roughly 10 to appear on a category Grid. Paid Marketing Solutions (buyer-intent data, profile upgrades, badges) are custom-quoted and expensive; skip them in year one. Since the February 2026 acquisition, your G2 submission also feeds Capterra, GetApp, and Software Advice through the shared G2 Digital Markets portal.

Capterra

Capterra skews toward SMB buyers searching category terms like “best invoicing software,” and it ranks for thousands of those queries. The free listing at capterra.com/vendors now routes through G2 Digital Markets after the acquisition. Monetization is pay-per-click: bids start around $2 per click with a reported $500 monthly minimum, and PPC position determines where you appear in category lists. Free listings sit below the paid ones, so treat Capterra as a review-collection surface first and an ad channel only once a category proves it converts.

Spotsaas

Disclosure: Spotsaas is our platform, so weigh this entry accordingly. Spotsaas covers 24,578 products across 419 categories with 12,400+ verified reviews, and over 2M buyers a year use it to compare software. Each product gets a SpotScore out of 10, computed from reviews, feature depth, and market presence, which gives buyers a single comparable number across a category. Listing is free: claim your profile at spotsaas.com or apply at spotsaas.com/get-listed — about five minutes, no credit card, and listings go live after a review that takes under two weeks. A paid managed growth plan exists for vendors who want placement and buyer-intent data.

TrustRadius

TrustRadius reviews average over 400 words, which makes the platform disproportionately useful for enterprise deals — procurement teams quote them in vendor evaluations. Claim your free profile at solutions.trustradius.com/claim-your-profile. The premium tier is custom-quoted; third-party sources report figures around $30K per product per year, which TrustRadius does not publish, so verify directly before budgeting. The free profile plus a steady review-request program gets most of the value. If your ACV is under $10K, the free tier is all you need here.

Gartner Peer Insights

Peer Insights stayed with Gartner when the Digital Markets brands went to G2, and it remains the review platform enterprise buyers trust most because reviewers are identity-verified. There is no self-serve listing: you apply through the vendor portal, account verification takes 2–5 days, and product review takes another 8–10 business days. It only pays off if you sell to organizations that already read Gartner research. If your buyers are SMBs, spend that approval-wait time collecting reviews on G2, Capterra, TrustRadius, and Spotsaas instead.

GetApp

GetApp is the discovery-oriented member of the G2 network, built around category browsing and feature filtering for SMB buyers. Listing guidelines live at getapp.com/listing_guidelines, and the free basic listing is created through the same G2 Digital Markets flow that covers Capterra and Software Advice — if you submitted to one, you are already in the pipeline for the others. Reviews sync across the network, so a review earned on Capterra also strengthens your GetApp profile. There is no reason to work GetApp separately; check that your synced listing rendered correctly and move on.

Software Advice

Software Advice runs an advisor model: buyers request a consultation, an advisor matches them with vendors, and vendors pay per qualified lead. That makes it the only platform on this list where the paid product is a lead you can pick up the phone and close. The free listing at softwareadvice.com/vendors gets you into the advisor database; per-lead pricing is not public and varies by category. Now part of the G2 network, so your Digital Markets submission covers it. Best fit: categories where buyers want hand-holding — ERP, EHR, construction, legal.

Product Hunt

Product Hunt is a one-day event, not a directory, and it is still the best free launch amplifier in software. Launching is free at producthunt.com/launch (log in, then Submit → New Product). The 2026 algorithm weights comment quality over raw upvotes, so a launch with 40 real conversations beats one with 200 silent upvotes. Launch Tuesday through Thursday at 12:01 AM Pacific, post the first comment yourself with the story behind the product, and ask your network for feedback — never for upvotes, which the anti-manipulation filters punish.

SourceForge

SourceForge outgrew its open-source-downloads reputation years ago; its B2B software directory now carries reviews, comparison pages, and serious domain authority, and its category pages rank for commercial queries. Basic listings are free at sourceforge.net/software/vendors/new, with paid upgrades quoted privately. Setup is genuinely fast — one of the better effort-to-authority trades on this list. Its sibling property Slashdot (both operate under Slashdot Media) shares infrastructure, so listing on one makes the other trivial; details on Slashdot are in the niche section below.

PeerSpot

PeerSpot, formerly IT Central Station, focuses on enterprise IT categories — security, networking, DevOps, infrastructure — with long-form reviews from practitioners at large companies. There is no self-serve submission: you reach out through the contact form, and PeerSpot expects vendors to have around 10 enterprise customers (1,000+ employees or $250M+ revenue) before it lists them. That gate keeps the platform credible and keeps early-stage products out. If you sell six-figure contracts into IT departments, start the conversation; otherwise leave this one for later.

Launch and community directories

These platforms drive a burst of traffic around a launch or a steady trickle from community browsing. We verified every one of them as live and accepting submissions in July 2026 — dead directories are the single biggest flaw in competing lists, and we cut StackShare from this section for exactly that reason after confirming its submission flow has been dormant since the 2024 FOSSA acquisition.

• Product Hunt — covered above; it anchors this category. Everything else here is a supplement to a PH launch, not a replacement for one.
• AlternativeTo — the highest-value pure directory on this list. Its “[competitor] alternatives” pages rank for exactly the searches your future customers run. Submission is free but gated: create an account, wait seven days (new-account rule), then use “Suggest new application” under the user icon. Admins now decline low-effort submissions and over-saturated categories, so write the listing properly.
• BetaList — pre-launch startups only. Paid submission is now the standard path at roughly $39, with boosted tiers up to about $299 (third-party figures disagree; confirm current pricing at betalist.com/submit). A legacy free queue exists with a wait around two months. Useful for waitlist building before a public launch, pointless after one.
• Indie Hackers — free product directory attached to a founder community. Add your product from your profile at indiehackers.com/products. The listing itself is minor; the value is the build-in-public audience that finds you through it.
• Hacker News (Show HN) — free, brutal, and occasionally transformative. Rules at news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html: the product must be usable without a signup wall, and the audience rewards technical substance and punishes marketing language. Only post if there is something genuinely interesting to show.
• SaaSHub — 77,000+ products listed since 2014, and its alternatives pages rank well. Free submission at saashub.com/services/submit. One caution: saashub.com/submit is a separate paid multi-directory submission service the same team runs — a different product from the free listing.
• Uneed — a curated daily-launch site with an indie audience. Free tier available at uneed.best/submit-a-tool, paid options from $9 to $197/month for placement.
• MicroLaunch — month-long launch visibility instead of a one-day spike. Free spots are capped around 40 per month; Pro Launch is $39. Submit via the “New Launch” button at microlaunch.net.
• DevHunt — developer tools only, free, community-voted. Traffic is modest (around 2K visits/month), so treat it as a niche backlink plus a small dev audience, submitted through the site nav at devhunt.org.
• Fazier — daily launch rankings with far less competition than Product Hunt, which makes a #1 badge achievable. Free Basic listing requires a backlink to Fazier from your site; paid tiers run $19–$149 at fazier.com/submit.
• Launching Next — free editorial-style directory with a 2–4 month review backlog, or $99 to skip the queue at launchingnext.com/submit.
• Startup Stash — a long-running curated resource directory. Free submission at startupstash.com/add-listing; paid placement is offered but unnecessary.
• AppSumo — technically a deals marketplace, not a directory, and worth flagging as such. You apply at partners.appsumo.com/self-submission, roughly 10% of applications are accepted, and the model is revenue share on lifetime-deal sales. It can move thousands of units fast, at the cost of LTD customers who never convert to subscriptions. A distribution decision, not a listing decision.
• F6S — a founder and accelerator network where your company profile (created after signup at f6s.com) doubles as a listing. The weakest product-discovery fit in this section; include it for the profile backlink and investor visibility, not for buyer traffic.

Niche and regional directories

These make sense when your product matches their audience — a specific region, a specific vertical, or AI tooling. Forcing a listing into the wrong niche directory wastes the submission and sometimes gets rejected outright.

• SoftwareSuggest — the dominant software review platform for India and a strong APAC signal generally. Free listing via “Create a Free Listing” at softwaresuggest.com/vendors; paid tiers exist but pricing is contact-only. If India is in your sales territory, this belongs in your first batch, not your last.
• GoodFirms — reviews plus research rankings across software and IT services. Free at goodfirms.co/get-listed, with quote-based promotion. Decent authority, a real review mechanism, low effort.
• Clutch — a review platform built for agencies, dev shops, and consultancies, not SaaS products. If your business includes a heavy services component, the free profile at clutch.co/get-listed is genuinely useful; if you sell pure self-serve software, buyers will not look for you here.
• Slashdot — the software directory at slashdot.org/software (“Add Your Software”) shares a backend with SourceForge under Slashdot Media, so reviews and listings cross over. High domain authority, minimal incremental effort if you already did SourceForge.
• Crozdesk — the buyer-facing directory is alive with around 43,000 products, but the vendor side rebranded: crozdesk.com/vendor-information now redirects to vendor.revleads.com. The listing still works; just expect the RevLeads branding when you sign up.
• Futurepedia — one of the two AI-tool directories still worth paying for, with sustained traffic from its newsletter and YouTube ecosystem. No free path: $247 Basic (sold out when we checked) or $497 Verified, one-time, at futurepedia.io/submit-tool. AI products only.
• There’s An AI For That — the largest AI directory by traffic. Paid launches at theresanaiforthat.com/launch run $49 (website listing) to $347 (Maximum Exposure); the only free path is a monthly lottery thread, which is not a plan. Worth it for AI-native products where category traffic is measured in millions of visits.

How to prioritize (don’t submit to all 30)

The mistake behind most directory campaigns is treating all 30 entries as equal units of work. They are not. Sequence by what each class of platform returns:

1. Review platforms with buyer traffic first. G2, Capterra, Spotsaas, and TrustRadius are where buyers with budget do their comparison work — and where a listing keeps producing after the day you create it. One G2 Digital Markets submission now covers G2, Capterra, GetApp, and Software Advice, so this whole layer costs you two or three forms. Add Gartner Peer Insights and PeerSpot only if you sell enterprise.
2. Directories with real referral traffic second. Product Hunt (launch day), AlternativeTo (competitor-alternative searches), SaaSHub, and SoftwareSuggest if you sell into India. These send actual visitors, in smaller numbers than review platforms send buyers.
3. Link-only directories last. Uneed, MicroLaunch, Fazier, Launching Next, Startup Stash, DevHunt, F6S. Each takes 10–20 minutes and returns a listing page plus a link. Batch them in one sitting when the layers above are done.

On the SEO question, honestly: directory backlinks are worth less than most founders hope. The majority of listing links are nofollow, and the dofollow links from small directories carry little authority. What has changed is AI search — ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google’s AI Overviews lean on high-authority directories when they answer “best [category] software” questions, and being present on G2, Capterra, TrustRadius, and Spotsaas raises the odds your product appears in those generated answers. That, plus referral traffic, is the honest case for directories in 2026. Domain-authority arithmetic is not.

A realistic budget: one working day for the review-platform layer including asset prep, one launch cycle for Product Hunt, one afternoon for everything else you choose to do. If a directory submission is taking longer than 30 minutes and it is not in the first layer, stop and ask what you expect back.

What you need before submitting

Every form on this list asks for roughly the same assets. Prepare them once and every submission afterward becomes copy-paste instead of a scramble:

• Logo files — a square version at 400×400px minimum as a transparent PNG, plus the original SVG for platforms that accept it. Several directories also want a wide banner or cover image, typically around 1200×630.
• Screenshots — three to five current product screens showing the real interface. G2 and Capterra both reject obvious marketing mockups, and buyers discount them anyway.
• Three description lengths — a tagline under 10 words, a short description around 150 characters, and a long description of 150–300 words. Vary the wording between platforms instead of pasting one blob everywhere; duplicate descriptions read as spam to both moderators and AI engines.
• Category selection — pick the narrowest accurate category on each platform. Narrow categories have fewer competitors and match buyer search intent; parking yourself in “Business Software” helps nobody.
• A review-seeding plan — an empty listing on a review platform reads as a red flag, and G2 needs about 10 reviews before your product appears on a category Grid. Line up your first 15–20 review requests before the listings go live; our guide on how to get more software reviews covers the ask sequence and the incentive rules each platform allows.

Frequently asked questions

Are SaaS directories worth it?

A handful are. G2, Capterra, TrustRadius, and Spotsaas carry real buyer traffic because people search them directly when comparing vendors. Most generic directories pass a small SEO signal at best and almost no referral traffic. Submit to the review platforms first, then treat the rest as a low-effort backlink exercise — an hour each, not a growth channel.

What is the best free SaaS directory?

Product Hunt for one-time launch visibility, and G2, Capterra, and Spotsaas for ongoing buyer discovery — all offer a free listing tier, and Spotsaas listings go live after a review of under two weeks with no credit card required. Paid tiers on these platforms buy placement and lead flow, not the listing itself, so free gets you on the board everywhere that matters.

Do directory backlinks help SEO?

Less than founders assume. Most directories set listing links to nofollow, which passes no direct ranking authority, and dofollow links from small directories carry little weight. The stronger effect in 2026 is AI search: answer engines cite high-authority review platforms when summarizing “best software” queries, so presence on G2, Capterra, TrustRadius, and Spotsaas earns citations that plain backlinks no longer deliver.

How do I get listed on G2, Capterra, and Spotsaas?

Each has a free vendor flow: create or claim your product profile, verify ownership, then add categories, descriptions, and screenshots. Since February 2026, one G2 Digital Markets submission covers G2, Capterra, GetApp, and Software Advice. Spotsaas takes about five minutes at spotsaas.com/get-listed. Full walkthrough: how to get listed on Spotsaas.

How many directories should I submit to?

Eight to twelve is the realistic ceiling for return on time. Cover the three or four high-priority review platforms, add four or five medium-priority directories that match your category or region, and stop. Submitting to all 30 on a list like this burns a full day, and everything past the first dozen returns a link nobody clicks.

Keep reading

• How to get listed on Spotsaas — the step-by-step version of the Spotsaas submission flow covered here.
• 11 best G2 alternatives — where else buyers read reviews, from the buyer’s side of the table.
• Best software review sites in 2026 — the review-platform subset of this list, ranked in depth.

Sources

• G2 newsroom: G2 acquires Capterra, Software Advice, and GetApp (announced January 29, 2026; closed February 5, 2026)
• G2 Digital Markets — unified get-listed portal
• Gartner Peer Insights vendor portal — process and timelines
• TrustRadius — claim your profile
• AlternativeTo FAQ — submission rules and new-account waiting period
• There’s An AI For That — launch packages and pricing
• Futurepedia — submit a tool (pricing tiers)
• All 30 submission links on this page were fetched and confirmed live between July 15 and July 17, 2026. StackShare was checked and excluded as dormant.

Last updated: July 17, 2026