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10 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.

Newest week first

Week of

10 AI earners in 2 drops

Earner$100–1k per month A small pay-per-call service earning 105.19 dollars a month A small pay-per-call service earned 105.19 dollars in a month from 155 requests. Most of the money came from one of its five buyers. We checked itLegal position unclear Read the story Earner— no figure A wallet-safety tool earning from a 99 dollar premium plan A tool that lets crypto users cancel risky permissions took 2,279 dollars from 21 payers on one network and 3,565 dollars from 10 payers on another in 30 days. No figureLegal position unclear Read the story Earner— no figure Selling government open data to AI agents, pay per call Nine wallets selling data to AI agents took in under 1 USD from independent buyers in about 2.8 days. A Korean public-data service shows the idea works in theory. No figureLegal position unclear Read the story Earner$10k–100k per month A no-code support-agent builder with 301 subscribers A tool that lets small businesses build their own AI support chatbot without code reports 17.2k dollars of monthly recurring revenue from 301 subscriptions. We checked itLegal position unclear Read the story Earner$100–1k per month A market-information seller where one buyer paid nearly everything A seller of market information took in $327.94 in a month, the most among the lopsided sellers here, but nearly all of it came from one buyer. We checked itLegal position unclear Read the story Earner— no figure Thousands of AI agents registered, but almost none are paid In a few days, 13,831 AI agents registered on one public list, yet only about 0.14 percent had a distinct, working service. Real outside buyers look rare. No figureLegal position unclear Read the story Risk— no figure Pumps on thinly traded crypto contracts leave late buyers with losses Roughly 7 pumps of 20% or more happen each day across thin coins, and prices tended to fall back afterwards, so chasers lose. What the pumpers earn is unknown. No figureGrey Read the story Risk$1k–10k per month Dozens of 'local' delivery sites that all ring the same number At least 56 sites with made-up local business names all send calls to one tracked number, and the calls are sold on. Inventing a local business misleads consumers. Our estimateGrey Read the story Earner<$100 per month A pay-per-request seller whose takings came from a single buyer A small x402 seller took in $89.04 in a month from only 45 calls, nearly all of it from a single buyer, so each call was worth a lot. We checked itLegal position unclear Read the story Earner$10k–100k per month AI-narrated audiobooks that sell through Spotify A business sold with 390 AI-made audiobooks reported roughly 11.9k USD a month in royalties, per its seller. A handful of hit titles carried it. Their claimLooks legal Read the story

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Week of

15 AI earners in 3 drops

Earner— no figure Rights offers let new buyers in, but the average buyer lost About 135 ASX entitlement offers a year leave new buyers time to qualify. After costs, the average result was a loss of 9.0 percent. No figureLegal position unclear Read the story Earner— no figure Prize competitions for data scientists paid 4.25 million dollars in a year Kaggle ran 44 cash competitions in 2024 worth 4.25 million dollars in prizes, and the DrivenData platform has paid 5.3 million dollars over its life. No figureLegal position unclear Read the story Earner$10k–100k per month An AI security team paid to find bugs in smart contracts An AI-native security team has been paid 198,983 dollars for valid bug reports on Immunefi. Only 11.5k came in the last three months, so the pace has cooled. We checked itLooks legal Read the story Earner$100–1k per month A referee service for software agents earned $187.28 from 3 buyers A service whose name says it referees disputes between software agents took $187.28 in 30 days from 1,018 calls. Three buyers paid, almost all from one. We checked itLegal position unclear Read the story Earner— no figure 43,093 jobs, 9,275 buyers and only $554.56 earned A registry-listed agent shows 43,093 jobs from 9,275 buyers, yet only $554.56 earned over its life. Huge activity can still mean tiny money. No figureLegal position unclear Read the story Earner— no figure Getting paid in tokens for competing to build AI on Bittensor Only 20 percent of slots on Bittensor's AI competitions earn anything, though miners overall collect 2,811 TAO a day. The token price decides what that is worth. No figureLegal position unclear Read the story Earner$1k–10k per month Chat agents for local businesses, sold at prices anyone can see Plans run from 49 to 490 USD a month for booking and ordering chat agents, and public records hint at only a handful of clients. Our estimateLegal position unclear Read the story Risk$100–1k per month Prices jump after a Korean exchange listing, then slide back A coin listed on Upbit jumps about 20% within 5 minutes, then fades. The back-test paid but the edge is shrinking; the futures it needs are not lawful everywhere. Our estimateLocked behind a licence or block Read the story Risk$10k–100k per month A DeFi vault with a suspiciously smooth return curve An aggregator shows about 10-12% a year with almost no drawdown. It has not been verified on-chain, and a curve that flat can be smoothed or hide other positions. Their claimGrey Read the story Earner— no figure Pooling crypto on Uniswap: price swings often outweigh the fees Fees brought in 8-17% of capital a year on a fixed-range Uniswap pool, but holding the coins beat it in two of four years because price kept leaving the range. No figureLegal position unclear Read the story Earner$10k–100k per month A tool that checks whether AI chatbots mention your brand A subscription tool checks whether your brand shows up in the answers of 6 AI chatbots. It recorded 48,646 dollars in one month. We checked itLooks legal Read the story Earner<$100 per month A travel-themed seller with one buyer carrying most of it Software paid this small seller $71.15 in a month across 830 calls, but about three-quarters of the money came from one buyer. We checked itLegal position unclear Read the story Earner— no figure Small web tools earn very unevenly, and outsiders guess badly Of 392 small web tools whose founders share real revenue, 51.5 percent earn anything. The money is lumpy: one business holds 90 percent of the sample's total. No figureLegal position unclear Read the story Earner— no figure A trade-routing protocol that took 1.70 million dollars in fees in a month CoW Protocol, which routes crypto trades through competing solvers, collected 1.70 million dollars of fees in 30 days according to a public dashboard. No figureLegal position unclear Read the story Earner$1k–10k per month A speech and telecom service paid for by the call A speech and telecom service earned 5,608 dollars in a month, one small payment per request. It is one of the biggest earners on the tracker. We checked itLegal position unclear Read the story

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Week of

15 AI earners in 3 drops

Risk— no figure A trade-execution agent with 29,991 jobs and no earnings figure A trade-execution agent on the Virtuals registry shows 3,129 buyers and a near-perfect success rate. Neither says how much the agent itself kept. No figureLegal position unclear Read the story Risk$1k–10k per month AI receptionists sold to businesses that never asked for one Agencies text each target business a demo page named after it. Cold texting without consent breaks anti-spam laws in many places, such as Australia's. The demo itself is lawful. Our estimateIllegal as practised Read the story Earner<$100 per month One wallet, two web addresses and a spread of small buyers A small x402 seller took in $76.18 in a month from 881 paid requests, with no single buyer standing out. We checked itLegal position unclear Read the story Earner— no figure Selling a calendar of Australian government IT contracts about to end Over 260 IT contracts worth 100k or more end within about six months, and the end dates are public. Few seem to sort them for small suppliers. No figureLegal position unclear Read the story Risk— no figure Copy-paste 'AI trading alert' sites that funnel people into Telegram Identical alert sites sit on 4 random hosts and steer visitors into Telegram groups. Financial advice needs a licence in many countries, including Australia, and what they earn is unknown. No figureIllegal as practised Read the story Earner$1k–10k per month A pay-per-request data service with 121 buyers and $1,781.84 in a month A web service that sells answers one request at a time took $1,781.84 over 30 days from 28,971 calls and 121 buyers. More than half came from one buyer. We checked itLegal position unclear Read the story Earner$100–1k per month An AI tutor for Indian accountancy students, sold in token packs An AI tutor for Indian accountancy students gives guests 15,000 free tokens, then sells a 299-rupee monthly pass. It cites official course books, which is the copyright worry. Our estimateLegal position unclear Read the story Risk— no figure An AI companion that swears it is a real person The chatbot says it is human and that nobody runs it, offers 10 free messages, then asks for payment. California requires companion bots to say they are AI. No figureIllegal as practised Read the story Risk— no figure Selling plagiarism checks run on someone else's university account Marketplace sellers run plagiarism checks through institutional accounts for outsiders, which misuses the institution's licence. No prices or volumes were recorded. No figureIllegal as practised Read the story Earner$10k–100k per month A weekly-subscription app that redraws your selfie in any style A selfie goes in, and the same face comes back in the style you pick. The app charges by the week and recorded 50,659 dollars in one month. We checked itLooks legal Read the story Earner$100–1k per month 4,042 paid requests from just 4 buyers made $86.41 A pay-per-request service handled 4,042 calls in a month and took $86.41, almost all of it from one of its 4 buyers. We checked itLegal position unclear Read the story Earner— no figure Three digital-template shops with 177.5K, 214.6K and 158.6K sales Three shops that sell downloadable templates on a handmade-goods marketplace show sales counters of 177.5K, 214.6K and 158.6K, at median prices of 24.00, 7.20 and 7.36 dollars. No figureLegal position unclear Read the story Risk— no figure 348 buyers paying $1105.24, yet the pattern looked circular A service listed as an NFT minter got $1,105 in a month from 348 buyers, none standing out. The pattern was still flagged as circular. No figureLegal position unclear Read the story Earner$1k–10k per month Polish-language AI personas with 968 subscribers A Polish-language chat service where people talk to AI characters reports 7.7k dollars of monthly recurring revenue from 968 subscriptions. We checked itLegal position unclear Read the story Earner$100–1k per month Hundreds of different buyers paying a few cents each A pay-per-call service earned 176.25 dollars in a month, but spread across 643 different buyers. That works out at pennies each, the opposite of a one-big-customer story. We checked itLegal position unclear Read the story

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Week of

15 AI earners in 3 drops

Earner$1k–10k per month Two virtual home-staging apps took 2,508 and 2,557 dollars in a month Two AI apps that show empty rooms furnished for property listings took 2,508 and 2,557 dollars in 30 days, one of them only since November 2025. We checked itLegal position unclear Read the story Earner$100–1k per month A trust-lookup service with 28 buyers and $157.70 in a month A service that searches records about software agents took $157.70 in 30 days from 5,329 calls and 28 buyers. Many small payments and no dominant buyer, but a small total. We checked itLegal position unclear Read the story Earner— no figure Australian dividend days: a small, shrinking 0.62 percent edge per trade Australian shares seem to drop slightly less than the dividend they pay, so buying just before payout has averaged 0.62 percent a trade since 2015. But the edge is shrinking. No figureLegal position unclear Read the story Earner— no figure A yield agent whose fees fell about 95 percent An AI yield agent earned 7.36 million dollars of fees in a year but only 74 thousand dollars in the latest 30 days, a fall of about 95 percent. No figureLegal position unclear Read the story Earner$10k–100k per month WhatsApp automation for online stores, 249 subscribers in its first year A tool that automates WhatsApp messages for online shops, founded in January 2026, reports 26.0 thousand dollars of monthly recurring revenue from 249 subscriptions. We checked itLegal position unclear Read the story Earner$100–1k per month Selling AI help during live job interviews, plus AI screeners A young business sells live-interview AI help to job seekers from 449 rupees a session, and an AI first-round interviewer to employers. The job-seeker side is the shaky one. Our estimateLegal position unclear Read the story Earner$10k–100k per month An AI SEO software business listed at 61 thousand dollars a month A business-for-sale listing describes AI search-engine software with 515 subscribers making 61 thousand dollars a month, run in about 40 hours a week. Their claimLegal position unclear Read the story Earner— no figure A listed lead marketplace for tradespeople with 83.1 million Australian dollars of revenue Hipages, an Australian marketplace that sells leads to tradespeople, reported 83.1 million Australian dollars of revenue for the year, 97 percent of it recurring, at a 24 percent margin. No figureLegal position unclear Read the story Earner$1k–10k per month App-store winners with AI inside tend to look like boring utilities In Shopify's app store, 64% of random AI-named apps have no reviews at all. The survivors are plain utilities, such as an alt-text generator with 180 reviews. Our estimateLegal position unclear Read the story Earner$100–1k per month Pocket Network's agent service: tiny payments from many different buyers The seller listed as Pocket Network took in $673.18 in a month from tens of thousands of requests, and a direct check of the blockchain backs it up. We checked itLegal position unclear Read the story Earner— no figure 11.97 million requests on an agent marketplace, and 24,533 dollars in fees A marketplace where AI agents buy tool calls from each other handled 11.97 million requests for 24,533 dollars in fees. 74 percent came from one group of trading agents. No figureLegal position unclear Read the story Earner— no figure A bug-bounty platform that paid 14.3 million dollars, 21 percent to five people One security-contest platform has paid out 14.3 million dollars in total. The top five contestants hold 21 percent, each with 408 to 933 thousand dollars. No figureLegal position unclear Read the story Earner$1k–10k per month A book author's AI clone sold for a monthly fee One author's licensed AI clone costs 29 USD a month and draws on 14 books. Only one live example turned up, so treat it as a single find. Our estimateLooks legal Read the story Earner<$100 per month A small seller with 10 buyers and a few automated visitors A small x402 seller took in $87.69 in a month from 56 paid calls. A small share of the payments looked like automated probing. We checked itLegal position unclear Read the story Earner— no figure Small sponsors pay big prizes for developers' attention Niche sponsors put up prize pools of 5k-1M to attract developers, and few people enter. A prize can be large per entrant, but it is top-heavy: most entries win nothing. No figureLegal position unclear Read the story

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Free read of the week

Three digital-template shops with 177.5K, 214.6K and 158.6K sales

No figureLegal position unclearno figure

Three shops that sell downloadable templates on a handmade-goods marketplace show sales counters of 177.5K, 214.6K and 158.6K, at median prices of 24.00, 7.20 and 7.36 dollars.

  • Etsy platform Runs the marketplace where these shops display public sales counters. Source: Etsy shop pages, read late October 2026

What it is

These are shops on Etsy that sell digital downloads such as planners, spreadsheets and design templates. Buyers pay once and download a file. We leave the shops unnamed.

Where the number could be wrong

A sales counter does not tell you profit, refunds or how many sales happened long ago.

That is a taste of the subscriber story. The full method, how we know, and what it would take to try it stay with subscribers. See it in its drop

Every Monday

Wallets worth watching this week

A fresh set of crypto wallets that have been making money steadily, chosen by a written rule and frozen the moment they are published. Here are 3 of this week's 10.

1Polymarket on PolygonNew this week

$74,517 up over the last 30 days

Up about $74,517 over the last 30 days, with 423 winning days on record, so it is not a one-day spike. Its trades are spaced like a person's or a slow script's at about 347 fills a day. It takes directional positions rather than farming rewards. We do not know who runs it.

Address0x12d6cccfc7470a3f4bafc53599a4779cbf2cf2a8

2Polymarket on PolygonNew this week

$63,107 up over the last 30 days

Up about $63,107 over the last 30 days, with 952 winning days on record, so it is not a one-day spike. Its trades are spaced like a person's or a slow script's at about 205 fills a day. It takes directional positions rather than farming rewards. We do not know who runs it.

Address0x24c8cf69a0e0a17eee21f69d29752bfa32e823e1

3Polymarket on PolygonNew this week

$55,104 up over the last 30 days

Up about $55,104 over the last 30 days, with 499 winning days on record, so it is not a one-day spike. Its trades are spaced like a person's or a slow script's at about 25 fills a day. It takes directional positions rather than farming rewards. We do not know who runs it.

Address0xf2f6af4f27ec2dcf4072095ab804016e14cd5817

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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 no-code support-agent builder with 301 subscribersWe checked it10k to 100kUSD a month
  2. 2A market-information seller where one buyer paid nearly everythingWe checked it100 to 1kUSD a month
  3. 3A small pay-per-call service earning 105.19 dollars a monthWe checked it100 to 1kUSD a month

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Know the risks

  1. 1Dozens of 'local' delivery sites that all ring the same numberOur estimate1k to 10kUSD a month
  2. 2Pumps on thinly traded crypto contracts leave late buyers with lossesNo figureno figure

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