Can you make money with AI agents? 5 bots, $100, 10 days

Can you make money with AI agents? A popular video this week tried it with real money: $100, 10 days and five bots built in Grok Bot. The headline result was "almost $2,000." Most of that number is not cash. It is the value the creator put on sales leads, and the bots that actually brought in cash made far less. The test is still useful, because it shows which kinds of jobs an agent handles well today and where a person still has to step in.

What Grok Bot is and what it costs

Grok Bot is a product from SpaceXSI, the company behind Grok. Its product page calls it "your team of always-on AI teammates" and says "They have their own computer, use it like you do, and never log off." In practice that means a bot can open a browser, sign into the tools you already use, and carry a task from start to finish.

It is not on the free plan. On the official pricing page the plans are Free ($0), Plus ($8 a month), Premium ($30 a month), Super ($100) and Ultra ($200), and Grok Bot comes with Premium and above.

The test had three rules. The person sets the bots up and then doesn't do the work. The total budget is $100. And only cash or a cost the business really saves counts as a result.

The five bots and what each one made

All numbers below are the creator's claim, after costs.

The stock trading bot traded on social media sentiment. It ended at minus $15.67 after fees and AI usage. This was the flashiest bot of the five, and it lost.

The clipping bot cut long videos into short clips, made a freelancer profile on Upwork (which needed a $21 paid membership) and pitched for work. A client offered $40 for six clips and then disappeared, so it ended at minus $31.76. The creator kept it inside the company as a first-pass editor, which the creator says saves money each month, but that saving is an estimate.

The book bot built a sales page for the creator's own book and emailed an old list. It sold two copies, for plus $14.48.

The reselling bot was the cash winner. A team of three bots found unused items around the office, checked courier prices, listed them on Facebook Marketplace and handled the buyers. One example was a 14 lb bowling ball that cost nothing, listed at $40 and sold for $35 cash. Across all items it made $88.02.

Add those four up and the cash result of the whole test is about $55.

The bot that "won" was cold email

The fifth bot looked for local business owners above a revenue size, removed people already in the company's CRM, verified each email address and sent outreach slowly, about 50 emails per inbox a day. It got 10 interested replies and 2 booked sales calls.

The creator values each reply at $100 and each booked call at $500 because of what the creator's business sells. That is where the $1,942.74 comes from. For that company it may be a fair estimate. For anyone else it means: the bot produced conversations, and a person still has to turn them into money. It was also the most boring job of the five, which is probably why it worked.

What still needs a person

The video says the bots work alone. They don't fully. A person approved anything that spent money or signed a deal, and that is how Grok Bot itself suggests working. Its documentation gives this rule as an example: "From now on, never send external messages without approval."

If you try it, three habits from the test are worth copying. Give the bot one narrow job, like listing items or drafting follow-up emails. Put a hard cap on what it can spend. Read every message before it goes out under your name.

What people really earn once they turn this into a business is a different question. We cover real numbers in the free first chapter of our guide.

FAQ

Can AI agents make money on their own?

In this test, not much. The four bots measured in cash made about $55 together, and a person approved every payment. The biggest result was leads that still needed a human to close.

How much does Grok Bot cost?

Grok Bot comes with the Premium plan at $30 a month and the higher Super and Ultra plans. The Free and Plus plans don't include it.

Which AI agent jobs worked best?

Simple, repeatable jobs: reselling unused items and finding and emailing business owners. The stock trading bot and the freelance clipping bot both lost money.

Sources

• Grok Bot, product page
• SpaceXSI pricing: compare plans