Comparison · their pricing checked 2026-08-27
AutoSaaSLaunch is $29 once. Why is Zarek $29 a month?
Because they are not the same job. AutoSaaSLaunch submits you to directories — 18 of them, through a Chrome extension that fills the forms from your own accounts — and it does that once, for a one-time $29. If directory submission is what you want, it automates more of that than Zarek does. Buy theirs.
Zarek writes the launch: the plan, every post, the communities and newsletters worth pitching, ranked and scheduled around your launch day. Then it goes back and confirms each listing actually rendered, and keeps checking, because listings die quietly. That is work which continues after the submission, which is why it is priced as something that continues.
What each one claims to do
| AutoSaaSLaunch | Zarek | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $29 one-time, lifetime, unlimited products | $29 a month per account, unlimited products |
| Directories | 18 supported | 29 tracked and tested twice |
| Submits for you | Yes — a Chrome extension autofills and submits from your own accounts | No. Opens each one with your copy pre-filled; you send it |
| Writes the posts | Not claimed | X thread, Show HN, LinkedIn, Reddit, launch blog, Product Hunt kit, launch email |
| Communities, newsletters, press | Not claimed | Researched for your vertical, each with a budget and a ready pitch |
| Checks the listing rendered | Not claimed | Visits each URL, including JS-rendered pages, and re-checks over time |
| Decides what to skip | Not claimed | Ranks every channel and puts 5 in each phase on your calendar |
“Not claimed” means their published pages do not claim it, not that it cannot be done some other way. Read as a comparison of what each product says about itself on 2026-08-27.
Can a tool really submit to directories for you?
Partly, and the distinction is worth understanding before you buy either one. We tested all 29 directories Zarek tracks, twice. In 2026-06-03, 1 accepted a submission without an account. By 2026-08-26, 0 did, and two of the domains had stopped resolving altogether.
A browser extension gets around that, and that is exactly why AutoSaaSLaunch is built as one: it drives a browser you are already signed into, so the login wall is not in its way. It is a real answer to a real problem. What it needs from you is an account on each directory first, which is the part the “fully automated” language in this category tends to skip.
Zarek does not automate the submission. We tested whether we could and published the whole table, both runs, every URL.
Why is one price a one-time fee and the other monthly?
A submission happens once, so charging once for it makes sense. Verification does not happen once — a listing that rendered in March can be gone in June, and nobody tells you. Neither does a launch plan that has to know what is due tomorrow.
The honest version of the trade: their price is better if the job ends at submission, and ours is better if it does not. Their own pages describe the $29 as founding-member pricing during beta and say it rises later, so check the number before you rely on the comparison either way.
So which one should you buy?
If you have a launch plan already and you only want the directory submissions done, AutoSaaSLaunch is the cheaper and more automated answer. Buy it and skip us.
If what you actually have is a live product, no audience, and no idea what to do on Tuesday — the plan is the thing you are missing, not the submissions. That is what Zarek writes.
And if you launch once and never again, we are the wrong shape, and we would rather say so than take your $29 a month.
See a real launch before you decide
Zarek’s own launch is public with no signup — the roadmap, the drafted posts, the directories it picked and the ones it held back. Start from the homepage and the demo is linked from the top.
Everything above about AutoSaaSLaunch is drawn from their own published pages on 2026-08-27, and their site is the authority on their product. If we have described it wrongly, tell us and we will correct this page and say that we did.