SaaS and startup directories, in short
SaaS directories expect a product someone can pay for today: live pricing, a working trial, and a page that explains what the thing does. A waitlist will usually be rejected, or worse, accepted and then ignored.
What counts as a SaaS directory
A SaaS directory indexes subscription software by category, and usually by price, integrations and target company size as well. The audience is people comparing three or four options with a budget already approved, which makes these pages worth more per visitor than almost anything else on this list. B2B directories in particular are read by buyers, not browsers.
What separates a real SaaS directory from a list is whether it maintains the entries. Pricing changes, products get acquired, features move between tiers. A directory that has not touched its entries in two years will happily take your submission and then bury it under a hundred dead listings.
By the numbers
These 34 directories have a median rating of DR 51. The strongest is F6S at DR 83, the weakest at DR 24. 5 of them accept a submission for nothing, and 5 charge for every listing. 25 pass a dofollow link.
That is 7 points below the median for the full list of 175 directories, which sits at DR 58. By band that is 3 rated 80 or above, 12 rated 60 to 79, 13 rated 40 to 59 and 6 rated below 40. 17 of them have no traffic estimate at all, which usually means too little to measure rather than none.
What a listing actually gets you
The launch platforms give you a spike: traffic, sign-ups, sometimes press, almost all of it inside forty-eight hours. The permanent indexes give you the opposite, a slow trickle that continues for years and a page that ranks for your company name alongside your own site.
Both give you something less obvious, which is a dated, third-party record that your company existed and did a thing on a particular date. That turns out to matter when journalists, investors and search engines try to work out whether you are real.
Submitting without wasting the evening
These reward timing more than polish. Pick a launch date, submit to as many as you can in the two days before it, and keep the description identical everywhere so the mentions reinforce each other. A listing that goes live three weeks after your launch is worth a fraction of one that goes live on the day. Have your founder profile, a logo, a one-liner and a 300-character description in a file before you start, because you will be pasting them fifteen times.
Common mistakes
Submitting before anyone can sign up is the big one, and it is the reason most SaaS rejections happen. After that: hiding pricing, which gets you filtered out of every comparison page the directory builds; using a description written for investors rather than users; and ignoring the category field, which is what determines whether your listing ever appears on a page anyone reads.
Where to start
By audience size, the biggest here are F6S, Indie Hackers and PitchWall, led by 1.6M visits a month. The highest-rated one you can use without paying is F6S at DR 83. 11 approve quickly, Indie Hackers, Startup Fast and Dofollow Tools among them.
Questions people ask
How many are there, and what do they cost?
34 directories match on this page. 5 take a submission for nothing, 24 run a free tier with paid upgrades, and 3 charge for every listing.
Which should I submit to first?
By rating, F6S (DR 83), Fazier (DR 83) and Indie Hackers (DR 81). By audience, F6S is the largest at 1.6M visits a month. Relevance beats both: a directory that actually covers what you built will do more than a stronger one that does not.
What is a SaaS directory?
An index of subscription software, organised so a buyer can compare several options against each other. Most include pricing, categories and integrations; the better ones add verified reviews and keep the entries current.
Are SaaS directories worth it for B2B?
Usually more than for consumer tools. B2B buyers research through comparison pages, and a directory listing puts you in that comparison at the point where the decision is being made rather than at the top of the funnel.
Do I need reviews before submitting?
No, but a listing with no reviews on a directory that shows them will sit below ones that have them. If the directory supports reviews, line up three or four customers to leave one in the week after your listing goes live.
What are the best startup directories?
By reach, Product Hunt, Hacker News and Indie Hackers are still the three that matter most, and all three are free. By durability, the permanent indexes such as F6S, BetaList and Startup Stash keep sending small amounts of traffic for years. The table above lets you sort by either.
Should I submit to all of them at once?
To the launch platforms, yes, within the same week. To the permanent indexes it makes no difference, so those can be worked through whenever you have a spare evening.
Do startup directories help with funding?
Indirectly. Investors do not browse them, but they do search for you, and a directory entry with a coherent description is one more page saying the same clear thing about what you do.
Every figure quoted above is read off the table on this page, so it moves as the list does. Domain rating and traffic are third-party estimates captured in September 2026: useful for ordering a shortlist, not precise figures.