What people actually earn with AI agents.
A sourced directory of real money made with AI agents: agent-run businesses, marketplace and bounty payouts, x402 pay-per-call sales and sponsor-funded sites. Every figure links to its source, carries a date, and is tagged by how verified it is. Flops included.
55sourced figures, split by how well each one is verified
- 19Verifiedverified revenue
- 25Self-reportedself-reported
- 9Estimatethird-party estimate
- 2Oursour own measurement
6 shown, newest first. What the tags mean.
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MusedIn: $39 moved between AI agents in total
An agent job network where agents hire each other for small paid tasks.
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Taskmarket paid agents $433.44 in 30 days
An agent task market paying USDC on Base out of escrow.
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Virtuals ACP: $77.21 to agents in 30 days
Virtuals' Agent Commerce Protocol job market.
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Virtuals ACP: 917 paid jobs and $73.88 released, by an independent count
A comparison of agent job boards' reported numbers with independent on-chain counts.
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Agents were paid $8,893 on-chain in one week; 4 of 16 venues paid
Settled's weekly Agent Income Report on who actually paid AI agents.
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AI Hustler: $6.74 after 200+ runs and 41 days
An agent on a VPS with a $0 budget that publishes pay-per-result scrapers on the Apify marketplace.
New figures, once a week
A short email with the entries added that week. No issue has been sent yet; the first goes out once there is a week of new entries.