10 SaaS directories with comparison pages (2026)
Nobody shopping for software browses a launch board. They search for the tool they already know plus the word alternative, or their category plus the word best, and they land on a comparison page. So the SaaS directories worth your afternoon are the ones that build those pages, which is a different set from the ones that give you a launch day.
That is the whole reason this list is separate from the best startup directories list, which is in the sidebar. Product Hunt gives you one loud day. SaaSHub and AlternativeTo give you a page that turns up eighteen months later when somebody is looking for a replacement for your competitor, which is a better-qualified visitor and a slower one.
Read the link column before you budget your enthusiasm. Seven of these ten are nofollow, including every one of the big comparison sites, so this is a discovery play and not a link-building one. If you came here for followed links, SaaS Directories With Dofollow Backlinks is the honest place to start instead, and it is in the sidebar too.
The other thing worth knowing before you begin: several of these decide who you are compared against, and they decide it from what you tell them. SaaSHub says a submission without competitors goes to the back of the queue. AlternativeTo warns that an app with no alternatives attached is close to invisible in its own search. StackShare runs a classifier that reads your copy and refuses anything it cannot file as a developer tool, SaaS product or technology platform, and a refusal costs you an hour before you can try again. Naming your real competitors is not optional politeness on these sites. It is the field that decides whether the listing does anything at all.
Across the 10 platforms on this list, median approval time is 45 days across the 6 that state one, 3 of 10 give dofollow backlinks, 10 are free to submit. Median domain rating: 77.
SourceForge
Two directories on one domain: free hosting for open source, and a 122,100-title business listing whose links all go through a nofollow redirect.DR 92freeNot statedG2
Buyer-intent reviews. Slow, bureaucratic, and where B2B software gets compared.DR 91freemium2-4 weeksSaaSHub
A DR 79 software marketplace that will list you free and nofollow, and puts you at the back of a month-long queue unless you name your competitors.DR 79freemium1-2 monthsAlternativeTo
150,000 apps and two million user opinions on a DR 79 domain, behind a free queue their own form measures in months.DR 79freemiumNot statedStackShare
149,000 tools, a DR 79 domain and a listing that publishes in seconds, gated by a classifier that decides on the spot whether you are a developer tool.DR 79freeInstantAlternative.me
A community-edited alternatives wiki with 12,800 software items, free to join and nofollow all the way out.DR 75freeNot statedSoftwareWorld
A B2B software review platform where claiming a profile you already have is free and publishing a new one costs $99.DR 73freemiumNot statedPeerPush
A product directory built to be read by AI assistants as much as by people, with an MCP server and an API, where the free lane waits behind the paid.DR 74freemium1-2 monthsSitelike
A similar-sites finder where you list yourself by searching for your own domain, and get approved on the spot if it is not there yet.DR 66freeInstanteBool
A 159,000-product B2B software index where the free queue runs about six months and the only link without a nofollow belongs to paid position one.DR 51freemium3-6 months
