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Finetools: requirements, how to submit, and what you actually get

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Free needs thirty thousand visits a month, and it checks before it believes you

finetools.ai
Finetools homepage
Eligibility

Who Finetools accepts

You need
A domain older than three months
More than 30,000 visits last month
Their text link on your homepage
You'll be rejected if
The free lane is closed to anything under 30,000 monthly visits, which is most indie products and every new one.
Every category is an AI generator or editor by output type, so a product that is not one has no shelf.
AI tools
What you actually get
A listing that points at a specific feature page rather than a homepage, which is the whole premise of the site. Links out carry rel="noopener noreferrer" and a utm_source, so they follow. Title and description are fetched from the URL rather than typed.

How to submit to Finetools

  1. Sign in
    Google. The Check and Submit buttons both open a login modal before they do anything.
  2. Pass the three checks
    Paste your URL on the Free Submission tab and press Check. It reads your registration date, tries to measure last month's traffic, and looks for their link on your homepage.
  3. Or pay
    The Paid Submission tab is $9.90 a submission and skips all three.

Finetools requirements

Domain age
More than three months
Traffic
More than 30,000 visits last month
Backlink
Their text link on your homepage
Account
Google

Gotchas

Thirty thousand visits a month is the real gate. It is not a guideline in the copy, it is one of three automated checks and it runs before anything else happens.
The domain age check reads your registration date and prints it back at you, so a young domain is refused with the date on screen and no appeal.
The traffic check can also come back "Unable to verify website traffic", which counts as a failure rather than a pass.
The backlink they ask for is a plain text anchor on your homepage, not an image badge, and their checker reads the homepage for it.

Let your agent submit to Finetools

Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the Finetools 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 5 Finetools rules above, so you find out you would be rejected before you open a tab.
Hands your agent all 4 fields this form asks for, none of them optional, already filled from your pack.
Warns you that Finetools looks for its badge on your site, so it has to be live before you submit rather than after.
Tells you what paying buys here, so you pick it on purpose: free if you pass three automated checks, otherwise $9.90 a submission. The paid lane has a quota per account and an Add Times link for buying more.
Types it into Finetools 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 Finetools?".
Connect your agentHow this worksTools and endpointsWorks with Claude Code, Claude, Codex, Cursor, VS Code and Hermes.

Finetools FAQ

How long does Finetools approval take?
Finetools does not publish how long approval takes.
How much does it cost to submit to Finetools?
Finetools has a free submission option plus paid placement (Free if you pass three automated checks, otherwise $9.90 a submission. The paid lane has a quota per account and an Add Times link for buying more.).
Does Finetools give a dofollow backlink?
Yes, a listing on Finetools carries a dofollow link. The site has a domain rating of 16.
Does Finetools require a backlink to your site?
Yes, Finetools expects a link back from your site as part of listing.
What gets you rejected from Finetools?
The free lane is closed to anything under 30,000 monthly visits, which is most indie products and every new one; Every category is an AI generator or editor by output type, so a product that is not one has no shelf.