When you’re upskilling in prompt engineering, you realize how much time it takes to write a perfect prompt and how much time it saves you for that task. The ROI is clear for anyone – which is why people are willing to pay for professionally written prompts that follow best practices of prompt engineering.
If you’re a skilled prompt engineer and want to sell prompt bundles across various AI models – check out 20 such AI prompt marketplaces. I have also covered the latest development in OpenAI’s GPT store – an update that cements the business of selling prompts.
Key Takeaways:
- An overview of AI prompt marketplace
- 10 AI prompt marketplaces to buy and sell prompts and GPTs
- FAQs on monetizing your prompt writing skills
What is AI prompt marketplace?
AI prompt marketplace is a dedicated space for prompt engineers, professionals, or generative AI beginners to buy or sell prompts for various AI models like ChatGPT, Dall-E, Stable Diffusion, Claude, etc. Think of it as a marketplace tailored for those specializing in prompt engineering. These platforms serve as meeting grounds for prompt experts looking to sell prompts and buyers seeking high-quality, effective prompts.
6 frequently required prompt types you can sell in a prompt marketplace
You can get prompts based on the AI model, industry, or end use case. Here are the most popular prompt types that you see many prompt engineers or AI influencers selling in AI prompt marketplaces:
1. OpenAI model prompts
ChatGPT is the most popular AI tool developed by OpenAI with a good number of user base and brand familiarity. It has a conversational UI such that it produces contextually relevant and coherent responses. By using advanced prompt engineering techniques like Chain of Thought or Tree of Thought – it is possible to improve responses by ChatGPT. Any prompt you create for OpenAI models like ChatGPT, Dall-E, custom GPTs will have some value in the prompt marketplace across industry use cases.
2. Content generation prompts
A frequent use of Generative AI is to create or edit content across various tasks like writing marketing copy, blog post, editing landing page titles, changing tones, etc. This task requires multiple prompt writing iterations to get desired results that align with your brand’s guidelines. There are many tools beyond ChatGPT which are only designed to help with content creation like Copy AI, Writesonic, Jasper, Frase, etc. Thus, content creators, marketers, and businesses who seek automated content solutions require content generation and marketing prompts which include diverse styles, tones, and formats.
3. Personalized recommendation prompts
AI models tend to provide generalized responses, unless you have used prompt optimization techniques to make it generate content tailored to your specific needs. Typical use cases include designing marketing strategies, personalized recommendations, designing user-specific onboarding, and more. Selling recommendation prompts also open an upselling opportunity to further help the buyer curate the prompt for their custom requirements.
4. Data analysis and visualization prompts
ChatGPT provides advanced data analysis feature where you can provide it with your data set and it will work on it based on your prompt instructions. It can help clean data sets, search for data, summarize, describe them, generate insights from data, or visualize it. When you feed your own data, the program provide accurate, faster, and minimizes errors in its responses. Thus, professionals or analysts wanting to get more productive with their data will seek professionally designed prompts across AI tools like ChatGPT, Google Cloud AutoML, Hugging Face, Google Bard, Microsoft Copilot, etc.
5. Code writing and debugging
Code generating or debugging prompts are designed for automating code snippets, scripts, or software development tasks. These prompts facilitate programming languages like Python, JavaScript, Java, or C++, enabling developers, engineers, and tech professionals to automate repetitive coding tasks. Hence, they require professionally written prompts with subject matter expertise that can generate code templates or enhance software development workflows.
6. Creative prompts
The creative prompts can include exploring artistic spheres such as generating visuals, songs, poetry, narrative, stories, and much more. Typical buyers will include artists, illustrators, designers, songwriters, storytellers, writers and more who are seeking inspiration and artistic exploration. These prompts stimulate creativity, conceptual development, and artistic expression across various mediums, styles, and techniques.
What makes a profitable prompt template?
Investing in a professionally written prompt is more than just acquiring a string of words or instructions – it’s about unlocking many benefits, efficiencies, and opportunities within the AI landscape. If you’re a prompt expert navigate the prompt marketplace, understanding the underlying motivations driving individuals and businesses to purchase professionally crafted prompts is important.
- Save time in writing and optimizing prompts
- Get expertise and professionally written prompts without hiring a dedicated prompt engineer
- Get customized prompts that drastically improve your workflows via automation
- Gain competitive advantage by testing prompt usefulness into your workflows and scale adoption accordingly.
- Mitigate risks with prompts designed by experts who have an understanding of AI model’s limitations, compliance risks, and deployment uncertainties.
Based on the above, here’s an in-depth exploration of how to design prompt templates that sell:
Ensure market demand and relevance
When ChatGPT was picking up adoption exponentially, you could see many influencers selling out prompt templates specifically in content creation space. This is because everyone was keen on automating their content writing tasks using ChatGPT – like, writing social media captions, blog posts, scripting, and more. Thus, stay abreast of prompt engineering trends, what people are searching for (check our Google Trends), and news on which industry is adopting Generative AI. This will hep you target a market or task where you can be a first mover.
For example, God of Prompt saw an opportunity to sell plug-and-play GPT templates when OpenAI announced its GPT store features.
Showcase expertise by going niche
Why would someone in fitness industry trust their workflows with a prompt engineer? Either you must belong from the industry to understand its nuances or be capable to interview subject matter experts and incorporate insights into your prompt writing. Thus, your prompt template should reflect you have the necessary subject matter expertise by designing professional formats, incorporate industry guidelines, and is packaged in a usable manner.
For example, ‘The Creative Template Shop‘ is dedicated to helping creatives run their business. They have curated ChatGPT prompts that helps you automate virtual assistant-like tasks using AI. This includes tasks like discovery call questions, handling project scope creep, podcast workflows, and much more. When you look at their prompt bundle, you will notice how they have gone niche where many of these tasks are specially curated for entrepreneurs across workflow types.
Prompt templates should be customizable
Leaving a room for customization is key to make sure your buyer can align it as per their requirements.
For example, a versatile prompt template designed for content generation will support various formats, styles, and tones, facilitates customization and creativity across diverse content creation needs.
Here’s another example of developing a prompt framework to use Midjourney and Canva for creating cinematic shots!
Accurate and scalable
Prompt engineering and Generative AI is an evolving field. OpenAI recently announced GPT store and now custom GPTs may become a norm than specialization soon. Thus, ever changing formats and technology means your prompt buyers will expect updates to keep up with dynamic technology trends. The prompt template should also be such that it is designed for enterprise applications to support growth, expansion, and adaptation across diverse departments. It should facilitate scalability, innovation, and transformation within large-scale organizational ecosystems.
10 AI prompt marketplace for buying and selling AI prompts
While you can always build a website and sell your prompts, to gain traction you can list your prompt templates and bundles in these marketplaces. Here are 10 active AI prompt marketplaces to list your prompt or GPT for sale:
GPT Store by OpenAI
One of the key developments by OpenAI is the launch of custom GPTs feature, available in its paid version. Custom GPTs are a combination of instructions or prompts which help you perform a specific task. It’s just like having your own ChatGPT for that specific purpose. This is a no-code feature which can help you create internal tools, personal assistants, or commercial tools.
To make the custom GPTs available to the OpenAI users, they will launch an online marketplace for developers to share these custom chatbots for everyone to access. The store is accessible within ChatGPT and you can search for bots required by your use case by searching various categories.
Payout structure: revenue sharing program with GPT creators and OpenAI. First, the program will be launched for US creators where payment is based on user engagement metrics with the GPT.
Website: GPT store by OpenAI
PromptBase
PromptBase is a matured AI prompt marketplace to buy and sell prompts across many AI models like ChatGPT, Dall-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, etc. If you’re a professional prompt engineer, you can list yourself into their talent marketplace for prompt engineering projects. You can sell prompts by creating an account and also compete with other prompt engineers on a leaderboard to become the top seller.
Payout structure: You keep 80% of revenue from every sale of your prompt post submission approval.
Website: PromptBase
Promptrr
Promptrr is an AI prompt marketplace to buy or sell prompts across AI models Google Bard, Leonoardo AI, Midjourney, ChatGPT, and more. You will see people selling prompts in bulk packages for specific use cases. They run a Discord community for AI prompt enthusiasts to help them navigate the prompt marketplace landscape.
Payout structure: You keep 80% of the revenue from every prompt template sale. There is a minimum $50 threshold for payout.
Website: Promptrr
Prompti
Prompti is an AI marketplace to help sellers list their professionally written prompts for sale. Buyers can access free AI prompts in a separate category and purchase paid prompts. They also come with a free AI prompt generator for Midjourney.
Payout structure: The site has not mentioned a payout commission. They link your account with PayPal for payments so you will incur PayPal charges. The minimum withdrawal amount is €50.
Website: Prompti
Prompt Sellers
Prompt Sellers is a prompt marketplace for AI models like ChatGPT, Neuro Gen, Bard, Dall-E, and many more. Currently, their most popularly sold prompts are around art generated from AI tools like Stable Diffusion, Dall-E, and Midjourney. It takes around 24 hours to approve the prompt to get listed on their platform. Prompt Sellers also provides you with marketing and promotion opportunities among their database via ‘paid listings’ and ‘features prompt section’.
Payout structure: The minimum price of your prompts has to be $1.99. Prompt sellers receive 80% of the revenue earned via their marketplace.
Website: Prompt Sellers
PromptScoop
PromptScoop is a prompt marketplace where you can list your ChatGPT, Midjourney, or other AI models for sale. Buyers can find trending and popular prompts based on sales and views – thus getting features can help you increase visibility on the platform. PromptScoop also ranks your seller profile based on sales, favorites, and views to determine its top 500 sellers.
Payment structure: You get to keep 80% of the sale value of your prompts via Stripe payments. For custom prompt payments, you must have made at least 25 sales. They take 1-3 days to approve prompts for listing.
Website: PromptScoop
PromptSea
PromptSea is an NFT marketplace where you can also buy and sell AI prompts, AI artworks, and AI content. It is based on polygon blockchain where payouts are made via cryptocurrency. The NFT optimizes profit by equitably matching supply and demand, paving the way for enhanced digital creations. With automatic micro-copyrights on each component, tracking and processing become faster, reducing fraud, errors, and delays.
Payout structure: tokenizing is free as there are no gas fees. Learn more – How does PromptSea work
Website: PromptSea
AIFrog
AIFrog is a newly launched prompt marketplace to buy and sell AI prompts for models like ChatGPT, Dall-E, Midourney and more. You can list your AI prompts for free and start earning provided your prompts get approved on reviewing by their team. It takes around 24-48 hours for prompt testing and approval.
Payout structure: The prompt seller keeps 75% of the sale value of prompt and uses Stripe for payments.
Website: AiFrog
PromptsIdeas
PromptsIdeas is an AI prompt marketplace to enable prompt engineers to sell AI prompts for models like Claude, ChatGPT, Dall-E, Midjourney, Bards, and more. It takes 1-5 business days for prompt approval and listing. It also provides free AI tools and AI generators across variety of use cases like marketing, image generation, text, and more.
Payout Structure: The prompt engineer receives 70% of the sale amount. The marketplace has a minimum withdrawal amount of $20. You can receive payments via PayPal, cryptocurrency or PromptsIdeas credits.
Website: PromptsIdeas
Etsy, Fiverr, Gumroad, and other mainstream marketplaces
Marketplaces like Etsy or Fiverr are also places where you can sell your prompt bundles. It is easy to create AI prompt bundles and list them, while their usual algorithm works for you to get sales.
Payout structure: Etsy has a listing fees of $0.2 per item + 6.5% of the price you display for each listing, including the shipping and gift wrapping charges. Fiverr takes around 20% of the order value, while Gumroad charges 10% flat fee with credit card or PayPal fees for payouts.
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