How much do AI companies make? Every company we cover, in one table
Verified payment data and reported run rates side by side, each labelled with source and date. Start here.
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Analysis built only from numbers we can label: verified, public or self-reported. No made-up examples.
Verified payment data and reported run rates side by side, each labelled with source and date. Start here.
Rank Prompt, the AEO tool that tracks how brands show up in ChatGPT and other AI answers, makes $45,600 a month from 210 subscriptions, verified via Stripe by TrustMRR on Oct 28, 2026. $313,000 all-time, 5.5x monthly growth in ten months, pricing.
Four evidence labels (Verified, Public data, Self-reported, Estimate) and one worked example: Photo AI's $86k/mo claim, labelled Self-reported with dated sources. From The AI Receipts.
Comp AI, the AI compliance platform for SOC 2 and ISO 27001, took in $765,000 in the last 30 days and $6.37M all-time, verified from Stripe by TrustMRR on Oct 28, 2026. Why its MRR is only $13,000, growth, pricing and funding.
Vid.AI makes $47,000 a month from 730 subscriptions turning scripts into AI videos, verified via Stripe by TrustMRR on Oct 27, 2026. $1.65M all-time. Monthly revenue fell from $89,800 (Jan) to $31,600 (Oct). Listed for sale since Sep 15 at $1.5M.
Seven faceless video AI businesses with Stripe-verified revenue: five make $3,500 to $65,900 a month, two stopped getting paid. Service vs tools, prices, YouTube's mass-produced content rule. Checked Oct 2026.
Pieter Levels lists Photo AI at $86K a month in his X bio (Oct 26, 2026), down from a $150K record in Sep 2025 and $105K in Mar 2026. He says he is open to buyers. Self-reported, with dated sources.
Meshy says its ARR passed $100M in Sep 2026, up 100x from $1M at the end of 2024, after a ~$400M Series B at a $1.5B valuation in July. Reported, not verified. Timeline, pricing, sources.
OpenAI told investors it hit roughly $50B in annualized revenue at the end of Sep 2026, up from $20B in January. $13.07B in 2025, $12.4B in H1 2026, a $20.9B operating loss. Reported, not verified.
Cognition, maker of the Devin AI coding agent, says it crossed a $1B annualized revenue run rate on Sep 25, 2026, up from $492M in May and about $37M in May 2025. Valued at $48B. Reported, not verified.
Humanize AI Text makes $28,500 a month from 1,100 subscriptions, about $26 each, verified via Stripe by TrustMRR on Oct 24, 2026. $851k all-time. Monthly revenue fell from $38,500 (Nov 2025) to $23,500 (Jul 2026), then rose to $28,300 in September.
We read real payment data for 45 AI businesses on Oct 24, 2026. 20 of 37 grew in the last 30 days, but Postiz and AEO Engine made 74% of the gains. Plus stale data, for-sale listings, big-company numbers.
Higgsfield says it crossed $1B in annualized revenue in September 2026, 18 months after launch, up from $200M in January and $700M in August. Reported, not verified. Timeline, pricing, sources.
Anthropic's S-1 (filed Oct 26, 2026): $16.29B revenue in H1 2026 vs $4.59B in all of 2025, first operating profit in Q2 ($974M), $80.7B net loss, 11,900+ $100K customers.
White Glove Content makes $65,900 a month from 560 subscribers, about $120 each, verified via Stripe by TrustMRR on Oct 23, 2026. Founded April 2026, $287k all-time, listed for sale at $2.5M.
Podium says its AI agents passed $150M in annual recurring revenue on Oct 22, 2026, up from $100M+ in January, with 20,000+ agents booking jobs for local businesses. Reported, not verified.
Replit revenue from company statements: $2.8M to $150M annualized in under a year, about $240M a year by Oct 2025 (CEO), a $1B target for end of 2026, and no new ARR shared in Oct 2026. Reported, not verified.
AEO Engine makes $165,000 a month from 55 clients, about $3,000 each, verified via Stripe by TrustMRR on Oct 22, 2026. Monthly revenue up 160% since Nov 2025, plans, and how it makes money.
ShipFast made $1,700 in the last 30 days from 6 sales, verified via Stripe by TrustMRR on Oct 22, 2026. Marc Lou reported $123,400 in May 2024. Monthly data, why it fell, and what he makes now.
Perplexity revenue from press reports: about $250M–$305M at the start of 2026, over $450M in March and over $750M by August 2026. Reported, not verified. Timeline, pricing, what drove it.
Cursor revenue from public sources: over $4B annualized in June 2026 (Forbes) and $608M from Aug 14 to Sep 30, 2026 per SpaceX's Q3 filing. Reported, not verified. Timeline, pricing, owners.
Lovable revenue from company statements and press: $100M ARR in Jul 2025 to over $600M in Sep 2026. Reported, not verified. Full timeline with sources, pricing and what changed.
ElevenLabs revenue from company statements and press: $330M–$350M ARR at end of 2025, $600M by Sep 2026, 55%+ from enterprise. Reported, not verified. Timeline, pricing, sources.
SEObot makes $34,900 a month from 500 subscriptions, verified via Stripe by TrustMRR on Oct 21, 2026. $1.9M all-time, but monthly revenue fell from $103k in January to $40k in September.
MagicSlides makes $10,400 a month from 780 paid subscriptions, verified via Stripe by TrustMRR on Oct 21, 2026. Claimed 2.3M users, revenue down by half in a year, listed for sale at $700k.
PropGPT makes $93,200 a month from 2,400 subscribers paying $9.99 a week for AI sports-betting picks, verified via Superwall by TrustMRR on Oct 27, 2026. MRR up 9.1% since Oct 23. Per-user revenue vs other AI apps.
Cometly makes $199,000 a month from 280 customers, about $720 each, verified via Stripe by TrustMRR on Oct 27, 2026. October hit $261,000, its best month in a year. $10.13M all-time.
GojiberryAI revenue verified via Stripe by TrustMRR: $424.4k MRR, 3,900 subscriptions, $1.8M all-time (last sync Aug 14 2026), plus pricing, growth and verified alternatives.
TypingMind revenue from founder Tony Dinh's own posts: ~$130–160k/month (Oct 2025), $210k+ in Dec 2025, $1M in 12 months by Nov 2024, plus how it makes money.
Chatbase made $863.6k MRR with 12,400 subscriptions at its last Stripe sync via TrustMRR (Jul 31 2026). the listing has since been removed from TrustMRR. Plus how it grew from $0 to $64k MRR.
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Postiz makes $324,000 a month from 9,500 subscriptions, verified via Stripe by TrustMRR on Oct 28, 2026. $1.61M all-time. Monthly revenue grew from $16,000 (Nov 2025) to $248,000 (Sep 2026). Pricing, open-source model, rank.
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What we know about how Photo AI was built and sold, from the founder's own posts, plus verified examples of similar AI photo apps and what they charge.