Twelve Tools: free listing if your site links back
Free to list if your own site links back. The sources report a followed link in return, on the conditions below.
Open twelve.tools (opens in a new tab)At a glance
- Link a new listing gets
- Followed, for a link back
- The exact rel value is not recorded
- Domain Rating
- 83
- Ahrefs DR, as the audits behind this page report it
- Price
- Free + link back
- Wait
- 72 hours
- Evidence
- Strong evidence
- 2 sources. Latest dated Oct 11, 2026
- Type
- SaaS directory
- twelve.tools
What to know before you submit
Free: one dofollow link in exchange for a link on your homepage or footer, reviewed within 72 hours. Pro gives three permanent links with no link back.
Pro is $36.
Is it worth it for your product?
- Fits
- A SaaS directory lists software by category, so it fits a product with a clear job and a page where people can see what it does.
- Costs
- Nothing to pay, but your own site has to link to twelve.tools. The followed link is the other half of that trade.
- Watch
- The link back is a link exchange. Google lists excessive link exchanges as link spam; one badge is a small trade, many are a pattern.Read the policy: Google's spam policies (opens in a new tab)
Twelve Tools is one of 23 SaaS directories in the catalog. Among them, 5 can give a followed link for free, 3 charge for one, 8 pass nothing and 7 could not be verified. Its DR of 83 is above that of 19 of the 21 other rated SaaS directories.
What a documented test of directory listings found:
Most directories send little: ShieldLabs' Yahor Papou reports 171 sessions from directories out of about 3,300, more than half of them from BetaList alone.
Submit to 10 well-chosen directoriesWhere this comes from
Strong evidence. The directory says it in writing, or two independent audits agree. Its own page is among the sources, listed first.
- Pricing page (opens in a new tab)
Free plan terms and Pro links
The directory's own page, read Oct 11, 2026 - SaaSCity (opens in a new tab)
Followed, badge required
Outside source, read Oct 2026
Before you submit
- Submit to 10 well-chosen directories
One B2B SaaS submitted to about 160 directories: 171 of 3,300 sessions and 2 attributed signups. When directories fit, and how to track them.