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

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A university-affiliated research database of 63,000 AI tools, free to be added to, that ranks what it tracks and links out to none of it.

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RankmyAI homepage
Eligibility

Who RankmyAI accepts

You need
A dedicated website or subdomain, which their form states as a rule
A significant AI component, in their words
A legal company name, the one required field a solo maker may not have
You'll be rejected if
Anything without a meaningful AI component, which they say outright
Anything hosted on a shared path rather than its own domain or subdomain
AI toolsSaaS products
What you actually get
A row in their database and, if the numbers are there, a place in monthly rankings built from traffic, investment and review score. There is no listing page and no link: the ranking tables print tool names as plain text, so what this buys is being counted and read about rather than a backlink.

How to submit to RankmyAI

  1. Open the form
    /tool-addition takes the whole submission. No account, no payment, nothing to sign in to.
  2. Fill three blocks
    Your name and email, then the tool (name, URL, use cases in 300 characters, description in 400, optional Product Hunt link), then the company (legal name required, everything else optional).
  3. Answer the last three
    Pricing as one word in 15 characters, a pricing page URL, and API availability as yes or no in 10.
  4. Send
    One button, no captcha. The form clears itself on success and prints no confirmation message.

RankmyAI requirements

Your name
100 characters
Your email
where they would reply
Tool name and URL
own domain or subdomain
Use cases
300 characters
Description
400 characters
Legal company name
required, no opt-out
Pricing
one word, 15 characters
API availability
yes or no, 10 characters
Product Hunt linkoptional
Company address and headcountoptional

Gotchas

Nothing here links out. The rankings print tool names as plain text with no anchor at all, so a place in the database is exposure and never a backlink.
The form asks for a legal company name and marks it required, alongside optional fields for street address, postal code, headcount and founding year, which is more corporate detail than most directories want from a solo maker.
Pressing Send clears every field and prints nothing at all, so a successful submission and a silent failure look identical on screen.
Inclusion is at their discretion and no review window is published anywhere, so there is no date to chase.

Let your agent submit to RankmyAI

Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the RankmyAI 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 RankmyAI rules above, so you find out you would be rejected before you open a tab.
Hands your agent all 10 fields this form asks for, 2 of them optional, already filled from your pack.
Types it into RankmyAI 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 RankmyAI?".
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RankmyAI FAQ

How long does RankmyAI approval take?
RankmyAI does not publish how long approval takes.
How much does it cost to submit to RankmyAI?
Submitting to RankmyAI is free.
Does RankmyAI give a dofollow backlink?
No, links from RankmyAI are nofollow. The site has a domain rating of 35.
Does RankmyAI require a backlink to your site?
No, RankmyAI does not require a link back from your site.
What gets you rejected from RankmyAI?
Anything without a meaningful AI component, which they say outright; Anything hosted on a shared path rather than its own domain or subdomain.