# Flowy vs Cross AI Tools

> Flowy and Cross AI Tools, now at claudemarketplaces.com, are both directories of the Claude Code ecosystem. Cross AI Tools ranks skills, MCP servers and marketplaces by real installs. Flowy’s Auto-invoked listings add a hook that runs on every prompt and puts a FLOW.md routing table in front of the model, so the skills you install get used.

Canonical: https://www.flowy.sh/compare/flowy-vs-crossaitools
Published: 2026-07-13
Updated: 2026-10-27
Author: Flowy

Flowy and Cross AI Tools (now claudemarketplaces.com) compared on what each is, how it ranks, what it sells and what happens after install. Read 2026-10-26, with the sources.

## At a glance

|  | Flowy | Cross AI Tools |
| --- | --- | --- |
| What it is | A crawler-fed index of the Claude Code plugin ecosystem, with an auto-invocation overlay | A directory of skills, MCP servers and plugin marketplaces, with an editor |
| How it ranks | By signal. Paid rows lead the list and are labelled | By real installs, stars and registry signals (its About page) |
| After install | On Auto-invoked listings a hook runs on every prompt (the UserPromptSubmit event) and puts the FLOW.md routing table in front of the model | No hook that fires a skill is mentioned on its home page or its About page |
| Money | Free to read and install. Placement is paid, labelled, and never changes a listing’s merit | Sponsor cards marked Sponsored. Its About page says a small set of sponsors funds the editor |

Read 2026-10-26 by us. We build one of the two, so read the rows as our reading and check them at the sources below.

Flowy indexes 4,248 Claude Code plugins. 79,827 components ship inside them: 56,209 skills, 11,409 agents, 11,191 commands and 1,018 MCP servers. 99 of those plugins fire themselves.

## Where Flowy is different

A skill with a million installs still sits unused until the model chooses it. Claude reads each installed skill’s description and decides per prompt, and that choice can fade over a long session. Flowy’s Auto-invoked listings ship a FLOW.md router and a hook that re-asserts it on every prompt, so the table is in front of the model each time. The plain upstream install stays one click away on the same listing.

## Who each is for

- Flowy: you want installed skills to be routed on every prompt, with the creator credited, for free.
- Cross AI Tools: you want skills, MCP servers and marketplaces ranked by real installs.

## Related

- Best Claude Code plugin directories: https://www.flowy.sh/best-claude-code-plugin-directories
- Loose skills vs Superpowers vs Flowy: https://www.flowy.sh/compare
- The best Claude Code skills: https://www.flowy.sh/best-claude-code-skills
- Do Claude Code skills auto-activate?: https://www.flowy.sh/do-claude-code-skills-auto-activate
- All Flowy listings: https://www.flowy.sh/listings
- Plugin alternatives: https://www.flowy.sh/alternatives

## FAQ

**What is the difference between Flowy and Cross AI Tools?**
Cross AI Tools, now claudemarketplaces.com, ranks skills, MCP servers and marketplaces by real installs. Flowy’s Auto-invoked listings add a hook that runs on every prompt and a FLOW.md router, so a routing table is in front of the model each time and the skills you install get used.

**Is Flowy a Cross AI Tools alternative?**
For one need, yes: if you want installed skills to be routed on every prompt, Flowy is the alternative.

**Did Cross AI Tools change its name?**
crossaitools.com now redirects (HTTP 301) to claudemarketplaces.com, where the site calls itself Claude Marketplaces. We keep the name Cross AI Tools here because that is what people search.

**Is Flowy affiliated with Anthropic?**
No. Neither Flowy nor Cross AI Tools is affiliated with Anthropic.

## Sources, read 2026-10-26

- Cross AI Tools home page: https://claudemarketplaces.com
- Cross AI Tools About page: https://claudemarketplaces.com/about