Can You Make Money by Selling Text Prompts for AI Art?

Another way to make money with AI art, but will it actually work? Keep reading to find out and see my results with this new method!

AI art is here to stay, and people love it or hate it. But can people actually make money with it?

I wrote about how to make money with AI art in this article.

Now I discovered a new way, got my first results, and want to share them with you.

Selling text prompts on Promptbase

You probably heard already about this website:

You can buy and sell text prompts, which can be used in Dall-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and on the Promptbase website. Ten free daily credits make it possible to generate and sell text prompts on their website.

It is pretty easy to start — create a free account, connect stripe, generate a new prompt on Promptbase or take your existing one from Midjourney, Dall-E, or Stable diffusion.

Add images to your prompt; the more, the better, minimum of three images maximum of eight. Click to finish and… wait a loooong time to be approved.

Do you like my AI images? You can see more of them on my website and even use them commercially if you get a yearly membership!

Long approval times on Promptbase

This is not my favorite part of the process, but this is how life works most of the time. On their website, you can read in the support section

that they need only 1–3 working days to approve your text prompts.

I am already a month on this website and got six prompts of 23 approved, two are scheduled one week in advance, and one declined.

The average waiting time for me was about ten days. Fourteen text prompts are still in the revue. Initially, I sent an email to the support, asking about a faster review because it was stated on their website. No answer for three weeks.

Which prompt was declined:

“cute german shepherd puppy sitting on the grass, photorealistic, cinematic light, bokeh”

Maybe it was too simple. The email I got said:

“Hello,

Unfortunately, your German Shephard puppy prompt has not been approved for the following reason:

Thanks for submitting your prompt! Unfortunately, the use case for this prompt is too specific. At PromptBase, we are looking for prompts that have a genuine real-world use case that could be used in real-world applications (e.g., website icons, stock photography, avatars).

Looking forward to what you submit next :)

If you think this is a mistake, please reach out via email on our contact page or our website chat widget.

We hope to see you upload more prompts in the future!

Ben

Founder: PromptBase”

They approved my “Goddess of Fire” and my “Princess of Snow”, but a dog was too specific? Ok…

Which text prompts were approved:

For obvious reasons, I will share my links to those images and not write the exact prompts this time. But I often share my prompts in other articles, so consider following me and subscribing to my email.

Approved prompts:

Approved and already sold:

Approved and scheduled:

• Fantasy flower
• Beautiful Italian woman
• Christmas tree illustration

When you get a sale, you will get an exciting email that looks like this:

My results in the first month:

So far, I have made two sales and a total of 3.98 $.

This is not bad, but I need to make more to justify the private subscription I had to buy additionally in Midjourney for 25$/month (20$ + taxes)! They accept prompts from Midjourney only made in private mode.

Probably this private mode is not too bad, because I am launching my own “AI art library” and want to save my best images for my customers.

My prompts with the most views are so far about beautiful photorealistic women portraits. Surprise, surprise… I will create more of them and post more prompts in the future, maybe 2–3 every day and build my portfolio there.

If you want to be successful with your prompts on this website, you have to look at the marketplace, what does sell the best. Then, create similar prompts to them, with your own spin on it.

Conclusion

I was actually surprised that people pay for text prompts. I work all day long with Midjourney and generate many prompts regularly. But someone, who does it occasionally and wants the best result pretty fast, will pay for it.

Also, finding the right prompt for Dall-E costs every time credits, and it might be cheaper to buy a good prompt than try it yourself 20 times in a row.

I wish you much success if you want to sell your prompts on Promptbase or if you need to find the right prompt for your project.

Much love,

Stella Sky

(All images were created by me with Midjourney)