How to submit to OpenAlternative
Free, but only for open-source projects: you sign in and give a repository URL. Free listings go live one per weekday, so the wait can be a few months; a paid package skips the queue.
The steps, the form and the traps on one page.
Checked 21 October 2026. Free for open-source projects: sign in, give a repository URL that meets the submission guidelines; free listings go live one per weekday, so the wait can be months. A paid package skips the queue (live within 24 hours).
OpenAlternative carries both kinds of link: some followed, some nofollow. Queue: one free listing per weekday; the wait can be a few months.
- Free tier
- Free for open-source projects: sign in, give a repository URL that meets the submission guidelines; free listings go live one per weekday, so the wait can be months. A paid package skips the queue (live within 24 hours).
- Link to your site
- Mixed: some links followed, some nofollow
- Link back required from your site
- Not that we saw
- Account
- Needed
- Human check / captcha
- Not checked
- Queue
- one free listing per weekday; the wait can be a few months
- Submitted by hand only
- No
- Last checked
- 21 Oct 2026 — we read the submit and pricing pages
Is OpenAlternative in your launch plan?
It lists any product for free on a condition. Add it, or make a plan with the directories that come before it.
Or let your agent submit it. OpenAlternative’s playbook is in the Launch Kit: you sign in once, then your agent fills the form. Your coding agent (for example Claude Code) works in your own browser. One-time, 14-day refund.
Questions about OpenAlternative
- Is OpenAlternative free?
- Free for open-source projects: sign in, give a repository URL that meets the submission guidelines; free listings go live one per weekday, so the wait can be months. A paid package skips the queue (live within 24 hours).
- Is an OpenAlternative link dofollow?
- OpenAlternative carries both kinds of link: some followed, some nofollow.
- How long does OpenAlternative take?
- OpenAlternative’s queue: one free listing per weekday; the wait can be a few months.
- Do you need an account to submit to OpenAlternative?
- Yes, you need an account before you can submit to OpenAlternative.
- Does OpenAlternative ask for a link back from your site?
- Not that we saw: nothing on OpenAlternative’s submit path asked for one.
Other directories we checked
- 10015 ToolsNot measured yet
- 10 WordsNo link to your site
- 600.toolsFollowed on its public board — not yet measured on a free listing
Submitting to many? The Launch Kit has a playbook for each, for your own coding agent.
Grade your landing page before you submit it anywhere.
Free. No card.