Week of 2026-08-31

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Earners

A paid API with 9 buyers, over half from one

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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.

The money
under 100 USD a month
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$9,736 a month, nearly all of it circling back

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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.

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A marketplace that claims to pay out over a million dollars a day

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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.

  • Mercor vendor Runs a marketplace that pays experts hourly for AI-training work and states a daily payout figure. Source: Mercor public statements, read late October 2026
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A photo-colourising site that took 3,912 dollars at one dollar a photo

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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.

The money
1k to 10k USD a month
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Thousands of cheap paid requests from a spread of buyers

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A small x402 seller took in $76.72 in a month from 2,613 paid requests spread across many buyers.

The money
under 100 USD a month
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