You might be struggling to earn from your printable listings or digital assets, but someone from the other side of the world might earn more than you by selling a few word combinations.
First of all, let me warn you that the prompt marketplaces are yet to be organized at this point. So, don’t expect a fully optimized and user-friendly marketplace like Envato or Etsy to sell your prompts.
As prompt itself is a new category digital product, It will take time to get smoothly functioning marketplaces for prompt selling.
Best Marketplaces we found online
By filtering the web, we found a few marketplaces and digital asset-selling sites where you can sell your Prompts. Bear with us to know everything in detail.
However, if you are totally new to prompting and curious to know the potential of prompt selling, please go through our other article that covers how to sell prompts online and the scope and opportunities of prompt selling.
Anyway, the marketplaces are listed below.
It is the most organized site we found that is fully dedicated to prompt selling. This site has very few viewers compared to Envato or Etsy. But its traffic is very targeted and specific. I was introduced to Promptbase at the end of 2022, right after the launch of Midjourney.
Being one of the first movers, Prompbase has one of the biggest databases by far, with hundreds & thousands of prompts for a range of AI tools like Dall-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and Chat GPT.
If you’re looking for something very specific, you’ll find it here. That is because Promptbase will let you sort the search results by category.
You can filter prompts for the AI platform you are using and narrow down your search for things like art and illustrations, photography, writing, productivity, and so on.
And what you will love most about Promptbase is the best-selling prompt engineers provide their prompts here. Most of their Prompt bundles are priced from $2 to $10 on average. Which means it will easily fit into your budget.
And above all, this low price range can save hours of trial and error. Another cool thing about Prompt Base is if you can’t find exactly what you are looking for, you can hire a prompt engineer.
Though it will be a little more expensive because top engineers can charge up to 150 bucks per prompt, you are more likely to get what they need.
And if you are a seller, let me tell you that Promptbase provides a very seller-friendly interface. As they have a wide range of categories, you can sell prompts for whatever AI tool you are an expert in.
And once you start to make some sales, Promptbase will let you charge more for your prompts. You can even become a prompt engineer after 25 sales and start setting your own rates for custom jobs.
Promptbase takes a 20% cut of all sales, which is pretty much standard compared to other higher-grossing marketplaces.
The one downside of Promptbase is that you may find it difficult to actually list your prompts as the platform analyzes each one and compares it to its existing database.
So, if your prompts are too similar to what’s already there, they probably won’t approve your listing. Another downside is their payment method.
Promptbase uses Stripe to pay the sellers, so depending on where you live, you might not be able to sell on the platform.
Etsy is primarily a marketplace for printables and digital products. Like Promptbase, they are not concentrated on AI Prompts. Etsy is known as Amazon for digital assets, covering almost all kinds of digital Products.
As they deal with various digital products, their daily visitors are comparatively more than any other prompt marketplaces like Promtbase or Prompt Attack.
According to the record of semrush, in October 2023, Etsy received 530.58M visits with an average session duration of 13.03.
That means, even if the number of prompt seekers on Etsy is a fraction of their total number of visitors, that will be good enough for you to earn a reasonable amount.
Moreover, Etsy is more organized than other platforms. Etsy will be a good option if you want to showcase your prompts in a bigger marketplace.
One downside of Etsy is that, like Promptbase, you can not just publish your prompts. You need to upload your prompts in a well-written PDF file.
As competition is higher, you may need to put extra effort into the SEO of your Etsy shop. They deal with too many sellers, so their terms and policies are more strict than the other platforms.
However, to list new items on Etsy, you’ll be charged a fee of $0.20 (upon sale) for each item you list in your shop. And your listings renew every four months, at which point you’ll be charged again when you make sales.
After that, you will be charged a transaction fee of 6.5% of the price you charged for each product. That means you need to add a 10% – 15% extra margin when you price your product to cover the fees.
But don’t get demotivated about fees. You can earn a good amount from Etsy if your product is good. Let me also tell you that irrespective of the complex fees, many Etsy shops are making six figures per month.
Please be informed that Gumroad is not a marketplace like Etsy or Promptbase. You can sell your prompts here but cannot showcase or present them to a bigger audience.
Sellers can sell products here, but buyers cannot search for products. Buyers can buy products only through the links provided by the sellers. To generate sales, you need to send traffic from external sources like Search engines, Social Media, Email lists, etc.
Gumroad will allow you to upload your prompts in PDF or other suitable formats and will manage all the payment and product delivery works on your behalf.
However, when you make a sale, they will charge a flat 10% cutoff, which is comparatively lower than most platforms.
If you have a blog with a good amount of traffic or any kind of traffic source like social media page, youtube channel or email list, you can cash in some bucks by selling prompts through Gumroads.
Other Marketplaces
Apart from the marketplaces mentioned above, there are some other marketplaces for buying and selling prompts. But this article won’t cover those in detail for many reasons. The policies of many of these sites are unclear to me and I didn’t find enough information and reviews about these sites. I will recommend you to do your own research before investing your time in these sites.
However, as all these sites are new, they may get regular traffic in the future. So, it is better to take a few notes about these sites.
Promptattack.com
Prompt Attack is pretty similar to Promptbase in the sense that you can buy and sell prompts, but there are a few important differences.
Promptattack could be a good starting place for new AI prompt sellers because it’s a much smaller platform with less competition. That means that, at least for now, you don’t have to worry about competing against the expert prompt engineers.
But to be honest, I wouldn’t really want to buy or sell on this platform myself. For starters, Prompt Attack takes a 30% cut of all sales compared to Promptbase’s 20%, and the chances of getting seen aren’t very high.
From what we can tell so far, the top-selling prompts barely have any sales, and Prompt Attack’s blog does not post updates regularly, making me wonder if the people running it are even invested in the platform themselves.
Promptsea.io
Promptsea is also similar to Promptattack, but it is different from the other marketplaces because it is the first marketplace on web3, as per their claim.
It is a marketplace for AI prompts, AI arts, and NFTs. The platform currently supports three blockchains- Polygon, BNB, and Tezos.
All the transactions on this platform, including buying and selling, are probably made in crypto. To be very honest, I have minimal knowledge about Crypto and NFT.
But if you are interested in these things, I recommend that you watch the video below, which covers many aspects of Promptsea.io.
Wirestock.io
This site primarily sells AI art, but you can also sell your prompts here. The cool thing is that Wirestock will sell your AI images and prompts on many different marketplaces for you.
They sell products on marketplaces like Shutterstock, Getty/ Istock, Adobe, etc. Like Promptbase, you can list or include your prompts with the uploaded images.
Wirestock will keep 15% of the price and give you 85%, which is a win-win situation because they will advertise your product on many marketplaces. However, wirestock is not accessible in every country.
Depending on your location, you may not get access to this site.
Final Words
If you carefully reviewed the discussions above and are genuinely interested in selling prompts online, I recommend starting with either Etsy or Promptbase.
That is because you will have many audiences already familiar with this new category product. But with that being said, you should also keep your eye on other platforms which may grow further.