What is the difference between the three plans?
All three publish the same profile at the same URL, on the same template every existing listing uses. Free asks you to add a small link to us and goes in the ten-working-day queue. The $75 featured listing is a production fee: it covers the verification and writing work, moves you to three working days, and adds entries on zplatform.ai, aitoolsmarketer.com and saasaffiliate.net plus a written review and a founder interview. The $145 video listing adds a video review and a dedicated tutorial on the ZPlatform AI channel. No plan influences ranking, the verdict, or the "not recommended for" section.
Does paying buy me a better verdict or ranking?
No, and this is a promise built into how the site works. Position on /pricing/ is computed from the published terms - the entry price, the seat minimum, the free plan, the trial - by a formula set out at /methodology/, and nothing in that formula can be bought. If we published a paid listing whose position did not follow from its own figures, our own audit script would catch it before deploy. Paying gets a page made. It never gets a better price recorded on it.
Does submitting guarantee a listing?
Yes on either paid plan, once your product meets a very short bar: a live public website, a public pricing page (or an honest "contact for pricing" line), and enough public evidence to fact-check the claims you make. Nothing beyond that. On the free plan we also try to publish everything that clears the bar, but the free queue is human-paced and slower.
How long does it take?
Either paid plan: the pricing page here is reviewed and published within three working days of payment, or you get a full refund, and the sibling entries follow over the same week. The written review lands within two weeks; the video, on the $145 plan, within two weeks of the written one. Free: reviewed within ten working days once the backlink is verified. Either way you get an email with each URL the moment it goes live.
Can I edit the profile after it publishes?
You can request corrections at any time - a price change, a new integration, a headcount update - and we will re-verify and update the page, on every plan. You cannot rewrite our assessment, remove the "not recommended for" section, or delete cons. That is what makes the profile worth reading.
Is the paid fee refundable?
Yes, in one case: if we cannot publish the pricing page here within three working days of payment clearing, the fee is refunded in full. It is otherwise non-refundable, because by the time the profile is live the work is already done. If you later want the profile removed, we remove it - the fee still stands.
What does the $145 video listing actually get me?
Two videos on the ZPlatform AI channel: a review of the product, and a dedicated tutorial showing it do the job it claims to do. Both are recorded from real use, so we will email you for access and for the two or three things you most want on camera. Your link goes in both descriptions, and the videos are embedded alongside the written review and linked from all four profiles. The same honesty rule applies on camera as in text - if the product does not do what the page says, that is what the video shows, which is the reason a founder should only buy this if they are confident in the product.
Do the reviews go easy on me because I paid?
No. The written and video reviews are based on actually using the product and say what we found, including what it does badly. Please do not buy a review tier if you think your product is not good yet - a published review of a weak product is worse for you than no review, and we do not take the section out on request. Paying decides that a review gets made and how fast. It never decides what the review says.
Will you link back to my site?
Every published profile links to your site, on all four properties. Those outbound links are nofollowed - on every plan, on every site, including the paid ones. That is site policy, not a paid-plan penalty, and it is why nothing on this page is sold as a backlink: what you are buying is four dated, independently written entries a buyer can actually find, not link equity. We do not sell links, exchange links, or accept guest posts.
Can I submit an AI tool, or does it have to be SaaS?
Submit your AI tool the same way as anything else - AI is one category on this site beside Finance and HR, not a separate directory with a separate bar. A product also earns a place in the AI groupings where AI is its function rather than a feature it also ships, which is why tools that bolted an assistant onto an existing job keep their ordinary category. A product is filed here only where AI is its function rather than a feature it also ships. Tools that added AI to an existing job keep their ordinary category and appear in neither list.
Do you list desktop, self-hosted or one-time-licence software?
Yes. Submit your software whichever way it ships - a hosted subscription, a self-hosted deployment, a perpetual licence or a free tier with paid support. The profile records the licence model you actually sell, so a one-time price is published as a one-time price rather than divided into a monthly figure nobody can pay.
What if my company email is on a work-domain we do not control?
If you are a founder or employee on a Google Workspace / Microsoft 365 domain, that works. If you can only send from a free-mail address, email [email protected] from any address and mention the product - we verify identity another way and take it from there.