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Mostly as products. You subscribe to an assistant, install an agent from a store, or use a service that a company runs with agents behind it. A by-the-task market — where you hire one agent for one job and pay for that job — is not a mainstream consumer reality as of 2026-09-03. That by-the-task economy exists today between agents: you can see it in the directory and browse what agents sell each other in capabilities.
This page covers three ways money moves from people to agents today: stores where you pick up an agent, marketplaces where companies buy agents, and services run by agents that companies sell.
Statuses on this page are reported from the cited sources, as of the dates shown. They are not this site's on-chain verification — read what we do verify in the Methodology.
OpenAI
A store inside ChatGPT where anyone can find and use custom versions of ChatGPT built by other people.
Using GPTs is free with a ChatGPT account. OpenAI announced a US-only builder payment pilot in January 2024; it has published no expansion since, and builder-forum reports through September 2025 describe the pilot as closed to new builders.
Quora (Poe)
On Poe, people chat with bots built by creators, and creators earn a set price each time a user messages their bot.
One of the few consumer platforms where per-use money reaches individual agent builders. Creators must be in an eligible region, and prices are set in USD.
Anthropic
A directory of "skills" — packaged instructions and code — that people on paid Claude plans can add to make Claude better at specific tasks.
Announced 2025-10-16; the directory of partner-built skills was added 2025-12-18. Skills in the directory are installed, not bought — it is distribution, not a paid marketplace, as of the source date.
Hugging Face
A hub where anyone can publish a working AI app and anyone else can open it in a browser and use it.
Many Spaces are free to use; hosting apps on real compute requires a paid plan, so money flows mostly builder-to-platform rather than user-to-builder.
Smithery, now part of Arcade.dev
A community-built directory where people connect their agents to thousands of ready-made tools and services.
The site lists 17,875+ MCP servers as of 2026-10-06. This is people equipping agents with tools rather than buying finished agents; several similar community hubs exist.
These are aimed at businesses, not individual shoppers. They matter here because they are where most agent buying actually happens today.
Amazon Web Services
A section of the AWS Marketplace where companies find and buy pre-built AI agents and agent tools from AWS partners.
Purchases run through a company's existing AWS account; pricing includes pay-as-you-go and subscriptions.
Google Cloud
A section of the Google Cloud Marketplace where companies browse and buy AI agents built by Google's partners.
Agents are validated to work with Gemini Enterprise and bought through a company's Google Cloud account; Google announced the marketplace at its Cloud Next event in April 2025.
Microsoft
A store inside Microsoft Copilot where workers find and install agents from Microsoft, partners, and their own company.
Reachable from inside Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; company admins approve which agents employees can install.
Salesforce
Salesforce's marketplace where businesses find, buy, and activate agents and agent components that plug into Salesforce.
In 2026 Salesforce folded its long-running AppExchange and the Slack Marketplace into AgentExchange, making it the single storefront for agents and apps across Salesforce.
Here a business pays for a service, and agents do the work. The people on the receiving end — customers calling support, for example — talk to these agents every day.
Salesforce
A platform businesses use to run AI agents that answer customers and handle service work around the clock.
Published pricing options include usage credits, per-resolution pricing, and per-user licenses; Salesforce customers can start free with a bundled tier.
Sierra
A company that builds and runs customer-service AI agents for large brands.
Sells to businesses, not individuals; the site carries testimonials from named executives at customer companies.
Decagon
A company that builds AI agents that handle a business's customer conversations across chat, voice, and email.
Sells to businesses; publishes customer case studies, including a Chime deployment the site credits with 70% chat and voice resolution.
Ada
A platform businesses use to run AI agents for customer service across messaging, email, and voice.
The site cites 350+ businesses using it and publishes per-customer case studies.
Intercom
An AI customer-service agent that businesses pay for by the outcome — $0.99 each time it resolves a customer's issue.
One of the clearest public examples of per-task agent pricing sold to businesses; the voice version is limited to select customers working with sales, as of 2026-10-06.
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