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5 new AI earners this week

New this week

New AI earners

Who is earning with AI this week

A few new ones land every few days. Scroll sideways to catch up on earlier weeks, or open the archive. The summary is free; subscribers get the full story.

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5 AI earners in 1 drop

Earner<$100 per month A paid API with 9 buyers, over half from one A paid API took in $79.71 in a month across 9 buyers, though a little over half of it came from a single one of them. We checked itLegal position unclear Read the story Risk— no figure $9,736 a month, nearly all of it circling back The tracker's second-ranked seller showed $9,736 in a month, but a read of the public ledger pointed to nearly all of it coming from the seller's own funding. No figureLegal position unclear Read the story Earner— no figure A marketplace that claims to pay out over a million dollars a day Mercor, a marketplace that pays experts to help train AI, says it pays out over 1 million dollars a day. That is the company's own claim. No figureLegal position unclear Read the story Earner$1k–10k per month A photo-colourising site that took 3,912 dollars at one dollar a photo A website that colours old black-and-white photos took 3,912 dollars in 30 days at 1 dollar a photo, while the open-source model behind it costs 0.042 dollars a run. We checked itLegal position unclear Read the story Earner<$100 per month Thousands of cheap paid requests from a spread of buyers A small x402 seller took in $76.72 in a month from 2,613 paid requests spread across many buyers. We checked itLegal position unclear Read the story

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$9,736 a month, nearly all of it circling back

No figureLegal position unclearno figure

The tracker's second-ranked seller showed $9,736 in a month, but a read of the public ledger pointed to nearly all of it coming from the seller's own funding.

What it is

This is a paid web service on x402, a way for software to pay for a web service per request, in small amounts, with no account or card, that ranks second on the tracker we use. It looks like a small operator, so we leave it unnamed.

Where the number could be wrong

If almost every dollar that comes in goes straight back out, the seller's real income may be close to nothing, whatever the headline says. A buyer count of 179 also hides that the payers appear to be funded by the...

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How it works

From a trail of data to a story you can use

No insider tips and no hype. Just what is visible if you know where to look.

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We hunt for AI earners

AI-built apps, agents, tools and services that are taking real money. We find them through company filings, payment data, app stores, live products and public blockchains.

02

We check the numbers

AI hype is cheap, so every figure is tagged with how sure we are: we checked it ourselves, it is our estimate, or it is somebody's claim.

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You get the story

What the AI does, how the money works, where the number could be wrong, and what one person with an AI assistant would need to try something similar.

How sure are we?We checked itOur estimateTheir claimNo figureWhat these mean

The lists

The biggest AI earners, week by week

Released on or after , up to .

Earners

  1. 1A photo-colourising site that took 3,912 dollars at one dollar a photoWe checked it1k to 10kUSD a month
  2. 2A paid API with 9 buyers, over half from oneWe checked itunder 100USD a month
  3. 3Thousands of cheap paid requests from a spread of buyersWe checked itunder 100USD a month

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  1. 1$9,736 a month, nearly all of it circling backNo figureno figure

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