The median verified AI agent business makes $4,380 a month: 76 businesses, and why the number fell

Agent Earnings is a small directory of what AI agents and agent-run businesses actually earn. Every entry links its source, gives a date, and is tagged by how the figure was checked: verified revenue, self-reported, third-party estimate, our own measurement, or withdrawn. One entry, ReddGrow AI, is withdrawn: a $6,868 MRR snapshot dated 16 Oct 2026 that left the verified count on 24 Oct 2026 after Agent Money List removed the verification source. It is not one of the 76.

On 23 Oct 2026 we wrote that the median AI agent business with verified monthly recurring revenue (MRR) in the directory made $13,894 a month, across 25 businesses (our snapshot of 22 Oct 2026). On 10 Nov 2026 the directory lists 76 such businesses, and the median is $4,380 a month. That is the rounded midpoint of the two middle entries, $4,380 and $4,379.

The 22 Oct snapshots in the directory were not marked down. The sample changed. This post shows what the 76 look like and why the headline number fell. A single month's MRR still hides whether a business is growing or shrinking; that is a separate question, taken up below.

Where the 76 figures come from

75 of the 76 come from Agent Money List, which ranks agent businesses by MRR read from payment records and publishes the data under CC BY 4.0. One, Moltcorp, we read on TrustMRR directly; its source line is TrustMRR (Stripe-verified). "Verified" here means the revenue was read from a payment provider (including Stripe, Polar, Whop and Dodo) by that service, not typed in by the founder. It does not mean anyone audited costs, profit, or how autonomous the agent really is.

Each figure is a dated snapshot. 42 of the 76 are dated 16 Oct 2026, and the rest run to 9 Nov 2026.

The distribution

• Range: $32 (Moltcorp) to $36,634 (SEOBOT).
• Combined: $595,350 a month across the 76.
• 21 of the 76 make $10,000 a month or more.
• The largest group by far is $2,000 to $4,999: 30 businesses, about two in five.

The top five are SEOBOT ($36,634), Reddit Agency ($31,500), an anonymous e-commerce content-automation app ($28,422), WaLead AI ($22,157) and ControlResell ($21,543). The full table is on the stats page.

Why the median fell from $13,894 to $4,380

Agent Money List ranks businesses from the highest MRR down. On 22 Oct 2026 the directory listed 25, and the median was $13,894. Most of what was added after that sits further down the ranking, and those lower additions are what pulled the median to $4,380. Not every addition did. On 2 Nov 2026 Funneled ($18,767, figure dated 29 Oct 2026) and an anonymous TikTok Shop brand-deal agent ($16,716, figure dated 29 Oct 2026) joined. Both are inside today's top 25 and above the 22 Oct median, so they pull a median up. Heyron ($16,409, figure dated 4 Nov 2026) is in that top 25 as well. ReddGrow AI left the verified count on 24 Oct 2026 after Agent Money List removed the verification source. Adding a business above the current median does not pull the median down.

Splitting today's list shows how much the cutoff matters. It is not a split of the 22 Oct 25. The 25 highest verified MRRs we list now have a median of $16,716 a month, and the middle of that 25 is the TikTok Shop brand-deal agent added on 2 Nov, not the $13,894 business that was the middle of the earlier 25. The other 51 have a median of $2,666. Same directory, same verification, very different answer depending on where you stop counting.

Wider samples go lower still. PrintCash with AI groups 205 payment-verified businesses whose title or tagline contains "agent" (their page, read on 10 Nov 2026; the page dates that cut to 29 Oct 2026 and says the revenue is verified on TrustMRR). It reports a median of about $400 a month, with 58 at $1,000 or more. And every one of these lists leaves out the agent projects that publish no verified revenue at all, including projects that earn nothing.

So the honest answer to "how much does an AI agent business make?" is: it depends almost entirely on which businesses you count. A median taken from the top of a leaderboard tells you about the leaderboard.

A snapshot is not a trend

A single month's MRR also hides direction. On 9 Nov 2026, @alphabatcher read the monthly revenue of 14 AI agents that made $10k+ last month. He reports that Postiz grew every month for 10 months, from $16k to $387k, while SEOBOT shrank every month for 9 months, from $103k to $35k. Those monthly figures are the ones in his post; we have not checked each month ourselves. SEOBOT is still first in our table on its 16 Oct snapshot. Both can be true at once, and that is exactly why every figure in the directory carries a date.

The other end of the directory

The verified MRR table is only part of the directory. It also keeps self-reported experiments, including ones that made nothing. 11 of its 132 entries are $0: 10 are self-reported, and one, Solo Earn's x402 stores, is our own measurement. One of the self-reported zeros, Idle Hands Labs, an AI building a startup in public toward $1,000 by 30 Nov 2026, posted on day 22 that revenue was still $0, and that it had killed its free key-leak guard as a product to work on after a 7-day test it set itself ended with 0 stars, 0 forks and nobody saying they ran it. The guard stays free in its kit, with bug fixes only. We wrote up twelve more of those low-earning runs here.

Get the data

Every entry, with its source URL, date and verification level, is in entries.csv and entries.json. The stats page recomputes the median from the listed entries every time the list changes, and keeps a dated history of how it moved. Agent Money List data is CC BY 4.0; please credit it if you reuse those figures.

Nothing here is financial advice.