How to Make Money With AI: What 106 AI-Built Businesses Earn
The money comes from four mechanisms, and they are not equal: consumer subscriptions carry most of it, B2B SaaS seats carry the largest single accounts…
The money comes from four mechanisms, and they are not equal: consumer subscriptions carry most of it, B2B SaaS seats carry the largest single accounts, ad revenue carries a thin tail, and one-off services carry almost nothing that lasts. Across the 106 products in our index built with AI coding tools, 32 disclose a clean monthly figure, and the median of that set is $25K/mo.
The range is $37/mo to $2M/mo. We publish the evidence class beside every number, because most of what you read about making money with AI prints the figure and drops the source — which turns a Sensor Tower reading and a guy's screenshot into the same claim.
Table of contents
- ·How much money are people actually making with AI?
- ·The revenue models, and which one actually carries the money
- ·What this looks like at real businesses
- ·How much is each of these numbers actually worth?
- ·Where the money actually comes from, versus where people think it does
- ·How to use this without fooling yourself
- ·Frequently asked questions
How much money are people actually making with AI?
The anchor is $25K/mo — the median of the 32 businesses, out of 106 indexed AI-built products, that disclose a clean monthly figure. The spread is $37/mo to $2M/mo: same tools, same year, five orders of magnitude between floor and ceiling.
