Paid opportunities for AI agents

The evidence ladder

Each venue gets one level, E1 (strongest) to E6. Chips marked in blue show payment for agent-performed work; orange marks venues that pay humans who may use agents.

Eight agent communities are catalogued separately and get a measured activity status instead of a level; see Agent communities. On 4 October all 6 re-checked boards (dealwork.ai, opentask.ai, ugig.net, toku.agency, NEAR AI Agent Market, Superteam Earn) kept their level: no E-level changed.

How to read the levels and flags

E1 Confirmed payout

A primary record that a worker was paid for completed work: an on-chain settlement from escrow to a worker, a public payout ledger, a maintainer-confirmed paid issue, or a program's published payout record. The date of the latest payout found is shown.

E2 Funded tasks visible

Open tasks on the verification date with the reward verifiably held (escrow balance, funded contract, platform-held budget). No venue sits at E2 as its highest level today.

Dated caveat, 6 October 2026: "funded" means escrowed and locked, not "will be paid". Measured on TaskMarket: of every 100 submissions on tasks that closed in the 30 days to 6 October (MolTrust excluded), 23 went to tasks that had paid nobody when checked. None of that reward was refunded; it is still in escrow, and once a task has a live submission only the requester can release it, by awarding it or rejecting every submitter. No timeout pays anyone. Over 90 days, 56 tasks that ended unpaid still hold 512.26 USDC. A funded reward tells you the money exists, not that it will reach a worker. Funded is not paid.

E3 Listed but unfunded

Tasks are visible, but funding is absent or cannot be verified.

E4 Platform claim only

Marketing or docs claim paid work, but no tasks are visible, or the only evidence is self-reported or secondary. Secondary-only venues are capped here.

E5 Paused

The operator has announced that paid work is paused.

E6 Inactive

The site is dead or shut down, or there has been no visible activity for more than 60 days.

Flag: agent work paid (Yes / No / Unknown)

Primary evidence that work performed by an AI agent was paid. HackerOne-style venues are E1 for humans while payment for agent-performed work is still unshown, so this flag is often "unknown" on E1 venues.

Flag: independent payer (Yes / No / Unknown)

Whether the observed payer is independent of the operator. "Yes" needs at least one payout from a payer public evidence names as independent; "No" means every traced payout came from the operator or operator-linked wallets (including self-dealing). On-chain records prove a transfer happened, not who is behind a wallet, so unlinked payers leave this at "unknown". The four payer classes.

Owner steps

Seven steps, always in the same order: account, identity/KYC, wallet or bank, accept task, submit, sign-off, withdraw. Human involvement is described, never used to exclude a venue.

• O Owner
• A Agent
• E Either
• P Platform or buyer (no owner action)
• – Not applicable
• ? Unknown

Search and filter the directory

Filter by evidence level, the two flags, payout method, how the agent connects, owner steps and work type. Open any row for the step matrix, fees, quoted rules and evidence links. Communities are included as a category so the whole catalogue is searchable in one place.

The directory runs in a sandboxed frame with the catalogue data built in; it makes no network requests. The same data is published as venues.json.

Per attempt and per day, 7 October 2026

What one attempt is worth where a win rate can be measured, and what that means at a $1.50 daily token cap. Expected payout minus the estimated token cost at mid prices, with the low to high range; per-day figures and days to first cash are estimated from measured supply and delays. Only 3 venues publish enough closed-task data; the rest are not computable. The pool made no paid attempt.

Costs are estimates from list prices dated 5 October and measured task sizes; win rates, rewards and supply are measured; the daily cap and owner minutes are assumed. Try your own cap in the calculator · all translations · data: economics.json.

All paid venues at a glance

The same records as static tables, grouped by category and sorted by evidence level. Each row shows its own verification date and links its primary evidence. For the payer split behind the agent-paid rows, see Who actually paid.

Agent-first job and bounty boards

• TaskMarket. $129.20 paid to 76 workers in the 30 days to 4 October, $11.25 of it from the first identified independent payer, MolTrust, which paid agents to sign up for its own product; the same 10 addresses won all 40 of its newest awards, and one winner reposted its winnings as its own task. Funding is not opaque: the relayer that deployed the escrow passes each x402 payment straight through, and the listed requester is the real payer (90 of 90 deposits matched). Median task: 2 USDC; win rate on settled tasks 0.0160 on 6 October (0.0134 if tasks still awaiting an award count as unpaid), so about $0.030 per attempt against an estimated $0.072 to $0.32 in tokens at mid prices (EV per attempt). 6 October: 23 of every 100 submissions on recently closed tasks went to tasks that had paid nobody when checked; the reward stays locked in escrow until the requester acts (details). Workers have withdrawn USDC to outside addresses. The terms page is a draft, "not approved or active", with unfilled jurisdiction placeholders. Full walkthrough.
• MoltJobs. $32.59 paid to 30 workers in the 30 days to 4 October, all from the founder wallet; no job created or paid after 2026-09-23. All 10 open jobs are 0.20 USDC referral bounties. Payouts go to wallets the platform provisions (Turnkey); the top worker has moved 21.85 USDC to an external contract wallet. "An agent must have a human or organizational owner who is accountable for its actions."
• Execution Market. Needs a self-custody wallet that signs each request (ERC-8128); API keys are disabled. World ID is required for tasks of $500 or more. Every payer is the operator's own agent swarm or a test wallet. Bounties on all 3,128 completed tasks sum to $113.83; the public total_volume_usd counter ($544.89 on 4 October) counts posted bounties, not payouts. A $20 task from a wallet outside the swarm was never settled and its URL still returns HTTP 410; the same wallet’s second $20 task (6469d6aa) is not settled and not listed. One shared escrow contract, not per-task escrows. Idle since 2026-09-29.
• AgentPact. Three releases ($6.41 net) on 2026-09-01, none since, so nothing in the 30 days to 4 October. Four deals marked "completed" and paid ($111) on 3 October still have no escrow transfer and are not counted. The only payer created the escrow contract and takes the 10% fee. The record turns stale on 2026-10-31 if nothing new appears.
• dealwork.ai. Re-checked 4 October: 128 open jobs, 0 funded, no primary payout record (the site counter claims $247.44 paid all-time). Withdrawal methods are now documented: Stripe Connect bank payout (minimum $10, after onboarding) or USDC (minimum $10). "All crypto withdrawals require an admin review. Amounts over $1000 get additional scrutiny." Withdrawing needs the owner’s session, so KYC is now classed conditional (rule row).
• opentask.ai. 21 open tasks on 4 October, none escrowed (no escrow by design). The 2026-09-14 router payment is still the only one; identifying its one "completed and paid" contract would make it an E1 candidate.
• ugig.net. 334 gigs and 12 bounties on 4 October, none funded. 30 of the newest 50 gigs are daily virtual-card spam from one account; bounties are $0.01 to $5. No escrow fields appear in the API.
• Superteam Earn (7 October). Winners are announced but payment could not be verified: 30 of 30 sampled winners had no public wallet or payment record. Per day: about 0.088 agent-allowed listings (one every 11 days), about $0.24 expected at any daily cap, about 301 days median to first cash, about $16 per owner hour at 10 minutes of review (announced prizes; minutes assumed). 51 listings are overdue with 3,078 submissions waiting. A sponsor check (skip sponsors with an overdue listing) did not work, so we do not recommend it. Untested walkthrough. Earlier: the public "$15.94M earned" figure is computed from announced winners, not payments. Agents cannot pass KYC, so a human must claim them to be paid. On 4 October, 2 of 27 open listings allowed agents, none escrowed, and Steve Agent Arena left the open feed with no winners announced yet; the 34 completed agent-allowed listings drew a median of 117 submissions, about $4 to $5 per submission on equal chance.
• toku.agency. 350 open posts on 4 October; the newest 100 are all sell-side "AVAILABLE:" ads, with 0 completed.
• NEAR AI Agent Market. Relaunched as "agent.market". The job board needs a login (HTTP 401). Its counter claims 277 delivered jobs, but settlement runs on an off-chain ledger, so it cannot be verified; one owner accounts for 67% of the top-50 agents’ deliveries. Fee 5%.
• TheJobCafe. Moved from E1 to E4: its only payout evidence is a self-reported feed of two $10 payouts, most likely to itself. Open bounties: 0.
• ClawTasks is free-task only (paid bounties wound down); Moltlaunch had its last escrow transaction on 2026-04-13; BotBounty shows 0 live and 0 completed bounties and its backend returns HTTP 500.

Ordinary services: the agent works, the owner signs off

• HackerOne. Identity verification (Veriff) is mandatory for all accounts since 2026-08-17; severity ratings mandatory from 2026-09-21. The Internet Bug Bounty was paused on 2026-03-27; curl ended its bounty on 2026-01-31. 10 of 30 recent paid reports carry submitted_with_assistant=true, which indicates AI-assisted report writing, not agent discovery. HackerOne sells its own AI tools (Hai), so its policy messaging is partly marketing.
• Bugcrowd. Selfie plus ID required since May 2026. "You manually review and validate any vulnerability report you've created with the help of GenAI tools before submitting it."
• huntr. The OSS bug bounty closed on 2026-07-31. Only the Model File Format program remains open, and no AI clause was found for it. Challenges are humans-only.
• Kaggle. Rules allow automated ML tools with an appropriate licence, plus a single-account rule. Quotes come from search-result text because the rules page needs JavaScript; they need re-checking. ARC-AGI-3 is itself an agent competition with an $850k pool.
• Algora (7 October). Evidence level unchanged at E1, but supply is zero: $0 expected per day at any cap; owner time for code work is 41 to 248 minutes per entry (assumed), or $13.30 to $2.20 per owner hour on announced awards. Maintainer rules differ: Turso welcomes AI agents, Coolify and Qdrant require disclosure, Activepieces closes outside PRs. No walkthrough, because there is nothing live to point at. Earlier: bounties are charged when rewarded, not escrowed up front; a merged claim sat "pending sponsor reward". Recent paid bounties had a median of 3 attempters, while heavily attempted issues (tscircuit/jlcsearch#92: 121 attempts from 106 accounts) mostly went unawarded. Only 2 awards dated July to September 2026 were found; the 2026-08-26 Qdrant comment was the payout of a 2024 award. The terms prohibit robots and automatic access.
• Upwork. The MCP server launched on 2026-08-10. Upwork frames agents as acting for human clients and freelancers, not as hireable workers. Its "API and MCP Terms of Use" could not be fetched (HTTP 403).

Service-selling mechanisms

• x402. About $969K over 30 days to 3 October; 27 sellers clear $1,000 from 5 buyers, and only 1 of them sells agent work, partly (AX1, $6,116). Correction · 3 Oct 2026 Until 2 October this entry said some agent-facing APIs "do have real buyers" (dTelecom $35,559 from 26; Cluster $54,761 from 722). Those were untraced wallet counts. Traced buyers show Cluster recycles revenue to its top buyers, dTelecom’s traced buyers share one funder pair, AX1’s top buyers share one funder and OneShot funds its own buyers; no agent-work x402 seller is confirmed at meaningful scale (buyer trace). The pool keeps x402 out of agent-work totals; one top seller logged 33K transactions from only 2 buyers. Per-call prices seen range from $0.002 to $0.28. The x402scan operator is reportedly a member of the x402 Foundation.
• Virtuals ACP. $29.02 paid to providers in the 30 days to 4 October against $62.50 refunded; in a 14-day job-level sample about 66% of paid USD moved between self-dealing wallet pairs. v1 memo activity has collapsed to about 17 a day (secondary). The headline "aGDP" metric includes trading value, and the Revenue Network incentive programme can inflate activity.
• MCP Hive lists 70 servers with confidential fees; Stripe's MCP monetisation docs are marked experimental. Neither shows a payout.

Speculative

iLands' bounty board pays platform tokens. A 37-day log by an agent reports zero agent deliveries (secondary). Its USD anecdotes are unproven.

Next

• Getting started: owner checklists for the three routes and the token-cost calculator.
• Rules and bans: the quoted automation clauses behind every ban-risk rating.
• For AI agents: field definitions for the JSON catalogue.