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Cashflowing · Apr–Sep 2026

We studied the most cashflowing apps.

Now we’re sharing what we learned: who people pay, what’s growing, and what you could build next.

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Free · 441 AI products · 9,542 websites

cashflowing.app · apr–sep 2026
MOST PAID AI APPS
checkout visits · Apr–Sep
01 higgsfield.ai9.7M02 elevenlabs.io7.3M03 suno.com6.7M04 opencode.ai4.2M05 runwayml.com3.8M06 kling.ai3M07 turboscribe.ai2.8M08 nousresearch.com2.6M+433 more on the list →
higgsfield.ai9.7M▸elevenlabs.io7.3M▸suno.com6.7M▸sellvia.com5.6M▸opencode.ai4.2M▸runwayml.com3.8M▸kling.ai3M▸turboscribe.ai2.8M▸csfloat.com2.6M▸nousresearch.com2.6M▸openart.ai2.4M▸fal.ai2M▸undetectable.ai2M▸emergent.sh1.9M▸meshy.ai1.9M▸tripo3d.ai1.8M▸inmatecanteen.com1.8M▸midjourney.com1.7M▸gethookd.ai1.6M▸linternaute.com1.6M▸higgsfield.ai9.7M▸elevenlabs.io7.3M▸suno.com6.7M▸sellvia.com5.6M▸opencode.ai4.2M▸runwayml.com3.8M▸kling.ai3M▸turboscribe.ai2.8M▸csfloat.com2.6M▸nousresearch.com2.6M▸openart.ai2.4M▸fal.ai2M▸undetectable.ai2M▸emergent.sh1.9M▸meshy.ai1.9M▸tripo3d.ai1.8M▸inmatecanteen.com1.8M▸midjourney.com1.7M▸gethookd.ai1.6M▸linternaute.com1.6M▸

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982M
visits to checkout pages, traced to their source
15 providers, Apr–Sep 2026
9,542
different websites sending people to pay
287 use more than one checkout
51%
of Stripe Checkout’s traffic comes from 262 AI products
+13%
growth in AI products’ monthly checkout visits, April → September
−0% without the one breakout
Inside 441 AI products

You don’t need to be famous to get paid.

165 AI products send more than 10K people a month to a checkout page. Only 20 passed a million visits in six months. The typical one sends about 6.5K people a month to pay: a small but real business.

46%
of AI checkout traffic goes to the top 10
175
of the 441 use a .ai domain
AI products by monthly checkout visits · Sep 2026
  1. 500K+ a month7
  2. 100K+ a month32
  3. 10K+ a month165
  4. All AI products we found441

Checkout visits are people sent to pay, not purchases. Treat them as the size of the funnel.

Where to build

13 AI niches, read like a map.

How many products already get paid in each niche, how fast its checkout traffic grew from April to September, and how much the biggest one takes.

Coding agents & app builders

Steady
Products
33
Apr→Sep
−3%
Leader
33%

Led by opencode.ai · 13M checkout visits in six months

opencode.aiemergent.shkiro.dev

Study & education

Steady
Products
15
Apr→Sep
+5%
Leader
26%

Led by turbo.ai · 923K checkout visits in six months

turbo.aigizmo.aistudley.ai

Growth compares monthly checkout visits in April and September across all 15 checkouts. Niche labels are ours.

New money

22 AI products came out of nowhere.

Almost no checkout traffic in April, 20K+ people a month by September. Most are small teams, and most aren’t household names.

216 of 429 shrank
Over the same six months, 171 grew by a fifth or more. Getting paid once is not the same as staying paid.
71% use Stripe, vs 16% of everyone else
AI products mostly sell through Stripe Checkout or Payment Links. The rest of the web is spread across PayPal, Razorpay, Mollie and others.
From near zero in AprilApr → Sep
  1. higgsfield.aiAI video and image generator with cinematic camera-movement presets.2.1M/mo
  2. supercool.comAI humanoid agent you talk to over live video that builds websites and does tasks while you speak.588K/mo
  3. brain.fmSubscription music service that generates audio designed to support focus, relaxation and sleep.149K/mo
  4. commandcode.aiCommand Code is a terminal coding agent for open-source models that learns your coding style and generates code, fixes and tests.147K/mo
  5. sogni.aiGenerative AI platform for creating images, video and music, running on a decentralized GPU network.94.3K/mo
  6. adspirer.aiMCP server that lets AI assistants create, analyze and optimize ad campaigns across Google, Meta, TikTok and LinkedIn.49.5K/mo
  7. whatbrandonthinks.comAI chat analyzer that reads an uploaded WhatsApp or iMessage conversation and writes a personal report about it.44.4K/mo
  8. buildpad.ioAI cofounder platform that helps founders find an idea, get a strategic plan and build websites and apps.40.7K/mo

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Stripe Checkout alone

On Stripe’s checkout, AI is half the traffic.

Most AI products take payments through Stripe’s hosted checkout. Of everyone it served from April to September, this share came from AI products.

See the Stripe breakdown →
The breakout

17.7K to 2.1M a month. In five months.

higgsfield.ai went from a rounding error to Stripe Checkout’s biggest single source of traffic between April and September. We can’t see why. What we can see is the shape: a creative-AI product turning attention into payments within weeks, not years.

Without it, AI checkout traffic across all 15 checkouts changed by −0% over the same months: one winner took nearly all of the new money. That is the game.

higgsfield.ai · visits to checkout pages / month
April
17.7K
September
2.1M
118× in five months
The other fast risers
  • supercool.com12.1K → 588K 48.6×
  • brain.fm0 → 149K 29.8×
  • commandcode.ai0 → 147K 29.4×
  • sogni.ai0 → 94.3K 18.9×
Building now?

What the data says to do.

We followed 429 AI products for six months and compared the ones that grew with the ones that shrank. No guru advice, just what moved.

Share of products that grew vs shrank · Apr → Sep
Grew 20%+Shrank 20%+
  1. 3D generation6 products
    67%17%
  2. Writing, detection & translation36 products
    44%36%
  3. Model APIs & inference39 products
    46%41%
  4. Video & image generation145 products
    42%48%
  5. Productivity & meetings23 products
    39%52%
  6. Chatbots & companions26 products
    39%54%
  7. Coding agents & app builders33 products
    36%55%
  8. Agents & automation30 products
    40%60%
  9. Study & education15 products
    33%53%
  10. Voice, music & audio36 products
    31%56%
  11. Marketing, ads & SEO18 products
    33%61%
  12. Other AI14 products
    36%64%
  13. Search & data8 products
    25%75%

Grew or shrank = checkout visits in Aug–Sep vs Apr–May changed by more than a fifth. The rest held roughly steady.

0167%

Go where more grow than shrink.

In 3D generation, Writing, detection & translation and Model APIs & inference, more products grew than shrank. In Other AI and Search & data, more than half shrank: the leaders are taking the market.

0254% vs 26%

Small is not a disadvantage.

AI products under 5K checkout visits a month grew 54% of the time; bigger ones only 26%. Part of that is the small base, but there is clearly room to start.

038 of 22 breakouts

Video still lets newcomers in, with an angle.

8 of the 22 products that came out of nowhere were video or image tools, despite 145 competitors. But 48% of video products shrank: a specific audience or use case beats another general generator.

0470% ≈ 71%

Take payments on day one. The checkout won’t decide it.

Products that grew and products that shrank use Stripe at the same rate (70% vs 71%). Pick one, ship it, and spend the time on the product.

Study the AI listHow we measured this

Six months of modelled traffic is a signal, not a guarantee. Use it to choose where to look, then talk to the people paying.

Picking where to get paid

Stripe is the default. The challengers are growing.

Stripe Checkout sends 43M visits a month, about 61× all five merchant-of-record challengers combined. But the challengers grew +33% in five months, and the newest are moving fastest.

Monthly visits (Sep) and growth since April
  • Stripe Checkout+12%
    43M
  • Stripe Payment Links+6%
    3M
  • Gumroad−6%
    2M
  • Dodo Payments+81%
    181K
  • Creem+39%
    77K
  • Polar+37%
    192K
  • Paddle+19%
    121K
  • Lemon Squeezy+1%
    139K

PayPal moves 124M a month but mostly from marketplaces like eBay and Etsy — a different market, covered in the case study.

Every company, one page each

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Top AI companies by checkout visits
  1. 01higgsfield.ai9.7M →
  2. 02elevenlabs.io7.3M →
  3. 03suno.com6.7M →
  4. 04opencode.ai4.2M →
  5. 05runwayml.com3.8M →
  6. 06kling.ai3M →
  7. 07turboscribe.ai2.8M →
  8. 08nousresearch.com2.6M →
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How it was made

Stand outside the bank. Watch where the depositors came from.

1

Pick the doors

Every buyer walks through a checkout page. We chose 15 of them, from Stripe and PayPal to the newest indie providers.

2

Read who sent them

Traffic data records the page each visitor came from. Flip it around and you get a ranked list of sellers, without ever seeing their books.

3

Clean and compare

We merged subdomains, removed search and social, and sorted what was left into AI niches by hand.

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