LaunchRepoChecked on October 1, 2026 — prices and features from the public website of SubmitMap; verify before buying.
Short answer: Both put your own AI agent to work in your own browser, and neither submits for you. SubmitMap is a free, very broad platform directory with a paid dashboard over MCP, by subscription or $250 once. LaunchRepo is a repository you buy once: 299 playbooks, your product brief and your tracker as files on your machine, for every product. Start free with SubmitMap; choose LaunchRepo to own the process.
SubmitMap and LaunchRepo are the two closest products in this market. Both leave the submitting to your own AI agent in your own browser, and neither submits on your behalf. They differ in where the knowledge lives and how you pay for it. SubmitMap publishes 826 platforms for free and sells the dashboard and the per-form briefs your agent fetches over MCP, by the month, the year or once. LaunchRepo hands you a repository with 299 playbooks, a product brief and a tracker, paid once and kept on your machine. This page compares both on dated facts and works one platform, Product Hunt, both ways.
Five questions that decide it
Answer each question for the product you are launching next. Where most of your answers land is your pick.
| Question | Pick SubmitMap if | Pick LaunchRepo if |
|---|---|---|
| Do you want to try before you pay? | Yes: all 826 platform pages and the eligibility check are free, and the Free plan covers 10 agent submissions. | The public sample guides are enough for you to judge the format, and you want the full playbooks as files. |
| How do you prefer to pay? | Monthly for the months you launch, then cancel; or $250 once for Lifetime. | One payment in euros, with no plan, counter or renewal to watch. |
| Where should the instructions live? | On their server: your agent fetches each form brief over MCP with your token. | In a repository on your machine that any agent can read, without a token or a server in the loop. |
| How many products will you launch? | One or a few: Free and Indie hold 1 product, Studio 3, Unlimited and Lifetime any number. | As many as you build. The licence covers every product you own. |
| Breadth or depth? | Breadth: 826 platforms, filterable by product type, pricing, approval time and domain rating. | Depth: 299 playbooks with confirmation rules, and a tracker that keeps submitted, scheduled and live apart. |
Side by side
Published pricing: free to read; paid from $9 / month or $250 once. Reading the directory and checking eligibility are free, without an account. The dashboard and the form briefs for your agent: Free $0 (1 product, 10 submissions), Indie $9 per month (1 product, 100 submissions a month), Studio $15 per month (3 products, no submission cap), Unlimited $29 per month or $190 per year, Lifetime $250 once. Subscriptions renew until you cancel; a first payment is refundable within 14 days.
SubmitMap publishes its prices in US dollars, LaunchRepo charges in euros. Both are shown as published; we do not convert them.
| Criterion | LaunchRepo | SubmitMap |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | One payment. No subscription, no renewal, no fee per launch. | Free plan, then subscription: Indie $9 / month, Studio $15 / month, Unlimited $29 / month or $190 / year; or Lifetime $250 once. |
| What the price covers | One licence. €49.00 is today’s price as a reference incl. 19 % German VAT; checkout applies the tax for your country. The price does not rise. | Reading and eligibility checks are free. You pay for the dashboard and the agent briefs: Free counts 10 submissions in total, Indie 100 a month. A submission is one platform, counted when your agent first asks for its form brief. |
| Number of products covered | Unlimited products you own and operate. The second product costs nothing extra. | 1 product on Free and Indie, 3 on Studio, unlimited on Unlimited and Lifetime. |
| Who does the work | Your own AI coding or browser agent, started by you. LaunchRepo is a toolkit, not a service. | Your own AI agent over MCP, in your browser. Their own words: “A tool. Nobody here submits on your behalf.” |
| Accounts used | Your own accounts, in your own logged-in browser. Nobody signs in as you. | Your own accounts and browser sessions. Their terms: the agent fills the form “from your machine, as you”. |
| What you own afterwards | The repository with 299 playbooks, your product.json and your tracker — cloned to your machine and yours to keep. | Your project and submission history in their dashboard; after cancelling, “Everything you have already tracked stays readable.” Form briefs come from their server with a token. |
| Directory count and source | 299 directory playbooks in the repo, each with preparation, form fields, blockers and what counts as a confirmation. | 826 platforms on the public site, each with who it accepts, what gets you rejected, the steps and the approval time. |
| Tracking of outcomes | Your submissions.json and the local dashboard record draft, submitted, pending, scheduled, needs-you and live separately. | A dashboard log per submission “from sent to live”, with the date, what was sent and the link type. |
| Guarantees | None. Every directory decides for itself what it publishes, so we promise no listing, backlink or ranking. | None on listings. The directory is editorial, with no paid placement. A first payment is refundable within 14 days, no questions asked. |
| Own AI agent required | Yes. Bring Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or a browser agent; your provider bills its usage. | Yes, for submitting: any MCP client, such as Claude, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code or Hermes. Reading the directory needs no agent. |
| Languages | Playbooks, templates and dashboard in English; this website in 12 languages. | English pages; no other language on the pages we checked. |
| Best for | Developers who ship more than one product and want a launch process they keep. | Makers who want a free, very broad launch-platform map and pay only for the months their agent submits. |
One platform, both ways: Product Hunt
The fairest test is one platform both products cover, seen only through what each publishes without a login or a purchase. We picked Product Hunt because both have a public page for it. Nothing was submitted for this comparison.
| What you get | SubmitMap | LaunchRepo |
|---|---|---|
| Readable without paying | The full platform page: who is accepted, what gets you rejected, six steps, field limits and gotchas. No account needed. | A public sample guide: preparation, workflow, what to watch for and what counts as confirmation. The full playbook ships in the repository. |
| Field limits | Name 40, tagline 60 and description 500 characters; a 240×240 thumbnail under 2 MB; three or more gallery images; up to three tags. | Tagline 60 and description 500 characters as observed, with the instruction to recheck the limits before writing final copy. |
| Text for your product | A brief for this exact form, filled from the project you stored. It needs a token, so an account; on the Free plan it uses one of your 10 submissions. | Your agent drafts from the product brief in your repository. Nothing is metered per platform. |
| Who presses submit | Your agent, in your browser. It stops when the form wants a sign-in. | Your agent, in your logged-in browser. You sign in, handle challenges and confirm the launch date. |
| When it counts as done | Your agent logs the submission, and the dashboard follows it from sent to live. | “Scheduled” only after the account confirms date and time zone; “live” only after the public product page is checked on launch day. A draft never counts. |
| Where the record lives | In their dashboard. | In submissions.json in your repository, shown by the local dashboard. |
Both public pages read on October 1, 2026. SubmitMap’s page also estimates launch-day traffic and shows a domain rating; those are its own figures, and we did not check them.
Worked example: Two products in the next twelve months
Inputs — an example, swap in your own
- Two products, each with its own launch run, done by your own agent in both cases.
- SubmitMap as published: Studio for just the two launch months 2 × $15 = $30, Studio all year 12 × $15 = $180, Unlimited $190 a year or Lifetime $250 once.
- LaunchRepo licence: €49.00 once, plus what your AI provider bills for the agent, the same kind of bill you would have with SubmitMap.
If you subscribe only while you launch, SubmitMap is the cheaper route in money, and its free pages cost nothing at all. The picture changes when launches spread across the year or the products keep coming: then you either keep a plan running or buy Lifetime, and the briefs still come from their server. LaunchRepo costs one payment and puts the playbooks, the product brief and the tracker in your repository, where the next product reuses them as they are. The agent bill is similar on both sides, because in both cases your agent does the work.
An example with stated inputs, not a measured result. SubmitMap prices as published on October 1, 2026; your AI provider bills agent usage separately.
Your numbers: Subscription or one payment
When SubmitMap is the better choice
- You want to start free. Reading all 826 platforms and checking where you qualify costs nothing, and the Free plan covers 10 agent submissions.
- You want breadth: 826 platforms against our 299 playbooks, filterable by product type, pricing, approval time and domain rating.
- You launch now and then. Indie at $9 or Studio at $15 for the month of a run, then cancelled, costs less than €49.00.
- You want eligibility matching built in. Their MCP server sorts platforms into ready, fixable and out of reach, and three of its tools work without an account.
- You want a refund window: 14 days on the first payment, no questions asked. LaunchRepo is not refundable once access is delivered.
When LaunchRepo is the better choice
- You want to own the instructions. The playbooks are files in your repository, readable by any agent, with no token and no server in the loop.
- You want one payment and nothing to count: no monthly submission limit, no plan tier per number of products.
- You launch several products a year. One licence covers every product you own; SubmitMap’s Free and Indie plans hold one product, Studio three.
- You want strict rules for what counts: a saved draft never does, “scheduled” needs a confirmed date and time zone, “live” needs the public page.
- You want your launch record next to your code: submissions.json and the local dashboard, under version control if you like.
Verdict
SubmitMap is the strongest free resource in this category: 826 platforms with eligibility rules, readable without an account, and an MCP server that lets your own agent qualify and submit. If you launch once, start there; you may never need to pay. LaunchRepo is the better fit when you want the instructions as files you own, one payment instead of plans and counters, and a tracker with strict rules for what counts as live, for every product you will build. Both rely on your agent and your accounts, and neither promises a listing.
Decide with today’s numbers
Our pricing page loads the live price; for SubmitMap, check their website. This page only knows what was published on October 1, 2026.
Questions about LaunchRepo vs SubmitMap
Is SubmitMap a submission service?
No. Its own FAQ calls it “A tool. Nobody here submits on your behalf.” Like LaunchRepo, it relies on your AI agent filling the forms in your browser. The difference: SubmitMap serves its data from its server over MCP, while LaunchRepo gives you the playbooks as files.
Which one is cheaper?
For a single launch, often SubmitMap: the Free plan covers 10 agent submissions and Indie is $9 for a month. Over several products and months the plans add up: Studio all year is $180, Unlimited $190 a year, Lifetime $250 once. LaunchRepo is €49.00 once for every product. SubmitMap prices in US dollars, we price in euros, and your agent bill comes on top either way. Checked on October 1, 2026.
Do I need my own AI agent for both?
For submitting, yes. SubmitMap works with MCP clients such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or VS Code; LaunchRepo with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or a browser agent. Reading SubmitMap’s directory needs no agent at all.
What happens if I stop paying?
With SubmitMap, “Everything you have already tracked stays readable”; what stops is new submissions past the free limits. LaunchRepo has nothing to cancel: the repository, the playbooks and the tracker stay on your machine.
Can I use both?
Yes. Use SubmitMap’s free pages to scan the long tail of platforms, and LaunchRepo’s playbooks and tracker for the runs you care about most. Keep one place as the record of what you submitted, so nothing is filed twice.