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AI Bucket: requirements, how to submit, and what you actually get

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Killed free submissions, and the site itself is for sale

aibucket.io
AI Bucket homepage
Eligibility

Who AI Bucket accepts

You need
A live public URL
Payment arranged by email
You'll be rejected if
Free submissions, which the site says are deleted.
AI tools
What you actually get
A page on a Webflow-built AI directory that says it holds 3,500+ tools, filed under sub-categories running to a hundred or more each. The listing carries three links back to you and two of them, Visit site and Check Tool, have no rel attribute at all, so the dofollow here is real and is the main reason to consider paying. An embed code for their verified badge appears on your page afterwards if you want it.

How to submit to AI Bucket

  1. Open /tool-submission and read the notice
    There is no form here. The page says free submissions have been discontinued and that free submissions are deleted from their system.
  2. Email info@aibucket.io
    The page asks you to email for paid submissions and says they will share the submission link.
  3. Pay through the PayPal link
    A PayPal link is printed on the page, with no amount attached to it.
  4. Fill the form they send you
    The actual submission form is only reachable once payment is made, so nothing about its fields is observable from outside.

AI Bucket requirements

A live public URL
An email to info@aibucket.io
Payment before you see the form

Gotchas

Free submissions are not merely declined, they are removed: the submission page states that free submissions are deleted from their system, so a listing obtained any other way is not safe.
The directory is for sale. A banner above the navigation on every page reads that AiBucket.io is now available for sale, so the person taking your money may not be the person running the site by the time your listing matters.
There is no submission form to look at. You email, you pay through a PayPal link with no amount on it, and only then are you sent the link, so you are agreeing to a price before you have seen what you are filling in.
The advertise page contradicts itself on reach in the space of one screen, giving 20K+ newsletter subscribers in its statistics row and a 1.8M+ subscriber newsletter a few lines below.

Let your agent submit to AI Bucket

Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the AI Bucket playbook and gets the brief for this exact form, with the values already taken from your submission pack instead of placeholders you fill in by hand.

What it does for this platform
Checks your product against the 3 AI Bucket rules above, so you find out you would be rejected before you open a tab.
Hands your agent all 3 fields this form asks for, none of them optional, already filled from your pack.
Tells you what paying buys here, so you pick it on purpose: no figure is published anywhere on the site. The submission page names an address, info@aibucket.io, and a PayPal link, and says the submission link is sent once payment is made, so the price is quoted privately. The advertise page sells promotion separately and quotes $1,000 only as the claimed value of a newsletter placement, not as a price you pay.
Types it into AI Bucket in your own browser, and stops for you when the form wants a sign-in.
Records what it sent, so the dashboard can answer "did I ever submit to AI Bucket?".
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AI Bucket FAQ

How long does AI Bucket approval take?
AI Bucket does not publish how long approval takes.
How much does it cost to submit to AI Bucket?
Submitting to AI Bucket is paid (No figure is published anywhere on the site. The submission page names an address, info@aibucket.io, and a PayPal link, and says the submission link is sent once payment is made, so the price is quoted privately. The advertise page sells promotion separately and quotes $1,000 only as the claimed value of a newsletter placement, not as a price you pay.).
Does AI Bucket give a dofollow backlink?
Yes, a listing on AI Bucket carries a dofollow link. The site has a domain rating of 22.
Does AI Bucket require a backlink to your site?
No, AI Bucket does not require a link back from your site.
What gets you rejected from AI Bucket?
Free submissions, which the site says are deleted.