Effortless Backlinks vs PushSaaS
PushSaaS submits SaaS products to 250+ platforms by hand, tracks the results in a live dashboard, and starts with 50 free submissions and no credit card. That free tier is the most generous entry point of any service we compare against, and it is the right place to start this page.
We sell one thing: 100 hand-picked listings from a vetted set, paced over 30 days, at a price printed on the homepage. Here is the honest comparison.
Our take
Start with their free tier. 50 submissions at no cost, no card required, is a better first move than paying anyone, including us. If it delivers what you need, you have spent nothing. The comparison only becomes real at the paid tiers, and there we hit the same wall as with other services that keep pricing private: their Growth and Authority plans do not publish prices. We think you should be able to compare what something costs without entering a sales conversation, which is why ours are on the homepage.
Full disclosure: we run this site, so read everything here knowing where we stand. We keep the facts accurate and tell you below when PushSaaS is the better pick.
At a glance
| Feature | Effortless Backlinks | PushSaaS |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | None | 50 submissions, no card required |
| Paid pricing published | Yes, €79 / €119 / €179 | No, Growth and Authority plans unpriced |
| Directory pool | 200+ vetted | 250+ platforms |
| Submission method | 100% manual | 100% manual, screenshot per form |
| Delivery | Spaced over 30 days for natural link growth | 5 to 7 days |
| Reporting | Report on completion | Live dashboard: DR growth, status, live backlinks |
| DR guarantee | No | Guaranteed DR improvement on upgraded plans |
| Focus | Any product, plus local businesses | SaaS products |
Pricing comparison
| Plan | Effortless Backlinks | PushSaaS |
|---|---|---|
| Free | None | 50 submissions, no card |
| Entry | €79, 25 directories | Growth Plan, price not published |
| Mid | €119, 50 directories | No published equivalent |
| Top | €179, 100 directories | Authority Plan, price not published |
PushSaaS names its paid plans but does not publish their prices, so we cannot put a real number opposite ours. Third-party write-ups have reported promotional figures in the $99 to $299 range against list prices roughly double that, but we could not verify those on their own site and we are not going to print unverified numbers as if they were facts. What we can compare is the free tier, which is genuinely strong, and the transparency, where we think publishing prices is the right way to sell.
Prices last verified April 2026.
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See how Effortless Backlinks handles this for youWhere PushSaaS wins
50 free submissions
No payment, no card. Nothing we sell competes with free, and for a founder testing whether directory listings do anything for their product, this is the sensible first step. Take it before you pay us or anyone else.
A live dashboard instead of a final report
Their tracker shows submission status, live backlinks and domain rating movement as it happens. Ours is a report at the end. If you like watching progress accumulate, or you report to someone who does, theirs is the better format.
Built specifically for SaaS
Their platform list is aimed squarely at software products: Product Hunt, G2, IndieHackers, BetaList. If you are a SaaS founder and that is the whole of your need, a specialist list is a reasonable thing to prefer.
A DR improvement guarantee on upgraded plans
They guarantee domain rating improvement at the higher tiers. We do not make that promise, because DR depends on more than the listings anyone places, but a guarantee shifts risk off you and that has value.
Where Effortless Backlinks wins
You can see what it costs
€79, €119, €179, on the homepage and in this table. Comparing services should not require you to start a sales conversation to learn a number, and the way a company prices in public is usually a fair signal of how it deals with you later.
Not only SaaS
Their list is built for software products. A large share of our clients are local and service-area businesses, who need business directories and consistent company details rather than Product Hunt. If you are not a SaaS, their specialism stops being an advantage.
Pacing with a reason behind it
5 to 7 days against our 30. Faster is better when you have a launch date, and worse when a burst of new backlinks is the only pattern in your profile. We space submissions across a month deliberately, and we would rather explain that than quietly optimise for looking quick.
The honest answer
PushSaaS is easy to recommend as a starting point, and we would rather say so than pretend our paid plan is the first thing a founder should buy. 50 free submissions is a real offer and the dashboard is a nicer artefact than an end-of-project report.
Where we would push back is the unpriced paid tiers. Once the free 50 are used, you cannot tell whether their Growth plan costs less or more than our €119 without asking, and that asymmetry benefits the seller.
If you are a SaaS founder who wants to test the idea, use their free tier. If you are not a SaaS, or you want to know the price before you engage, we are the more straightforward option.
Which should you choose?
PChoose PushSaaS if:
You are a SaaS founder who wants to try directory submissions at no cost, you value a live dashboard over an end-of-project report, or you want a DR improvement guarantee at the higher tiers.
EChoose Effortless Backlinks if:
You want the price before the conversation, you are a local business or anything other than a SaaS, or you would rather have submissions paced over a month than delivered in a week.
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