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

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The free form is hidden in an FAQ answer, wants your phone number and pays no link

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Trend AI Tools homepage
Eligibility

Who Trend AI Tools accepts

You need
A phone number, which the free form marks required
A name, an email, a country and a description
A URL that is not an affiliate link, which they say they check by hand
You'll be rejected if
Adult tools are named and refused from the sponsorship plans. Otherwise the free lane is reviewed editorially with no published bar and a 30 day window.
AI toolsSaaS products
What you actually get
A basic listing after an editorial review their own page bounds at 30 days. Their words for it: not editorially verified, with certain limitations, and no support or edits afterwards. Dofollow appears in the $45 Fast Track feature list as "Get Do-Follow Permanent backlink for your website", so the free listing does not carry one.

How to submit to Trend AI Tools

  1. Do not stop at /submit-tool/
    That page shows only the $45 and $249 options. The free route exists but is a link inside the answer to the FAQ question "Do you provide free listing?".
  2. Open /basic-listing/
    One page, no account. Name, email, phone number, country, tool name, tool category as free text, tool URL, a pricing model from seven, and a description.
  3. Submit and wait a month
    Their own copy says up to 30 days for the editorial team to decide, and that they cannot support or edit a basic listing afterwards.

Trend AI Tools requirements

A live URL
Name
Email
Phone number
required on the free form
Country
Tool name
Tool category
free text
Pricing
one of 7
Description

Gotchas

The free form asks for a phone number and marks it required, which no other directory in this run does, and it is enforced: the form silently refuses to submit without one and shows no error saying so.
Dofollow is a $45 feature here, listed as "Get Do-Follow Permanent backlink for your website" under Fast Track, so the basic listing does not carry one.
The free option is deliberately hard to find: /submit-tool/ shows only the two paid tiers, and the link to /basic-listing/ lives inside the answer to an FAQ question near the bottom.
Their own description of the free listing is that it is not editorially verified, has limitations, and gets no support and no edits. A mistake in the form is permanent.
A newsletter popup opens over the form while you are filling it in, which is worth closing before you press Submit rather than after.

Let your agent submit to Trend AI Tools

Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the Trend AI Tools 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 4 Trend AI Tools rules above, so you find out you would be rejected before you open a tab.
Hands your agent all 9 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: free basic listing, reachable only through a link inside one FAQ answer. Fast Track is $45 one-time and Boosted is $249, and dofollow is one of the four things $45 buys, so the free lane is not one.
Types it into Trend AI Tools 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 Trend AI Tools?".
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Trend AI Tools FAQ

How long does Trend AI Tools approval take?
Trend AI Tools's typical time from submission to going live is 2-4 weeks.
How much does it cost to submit to Trend AI Tools?
Trend AI Tools has a free submission option plus paid placement (Free basic listing, reachable only through a link inside one FAQ answer. Fast Track is $45 one-time and Boosted is $249, and dofollow is one of the four things $45 buys, so the free lane is not one.).
Does Trend AI Tools give a dofollow backlink?
No, links from Trend AI Tools are nofollow. The site has a domain rating of 7.
Does Trend AI Tools require a backlink to your site?
No, Trend AI Tools does not require a link back from your site.
What gets you rejected from Trend AI Tools?
Adult tools are named and refused from the sponsorship plans. Otherwise the free lane is reviewed editorially with no published bar and a 30 day window.