Vid.AI makes $51,332 a month generating faceless videos — down from $89,846 at its January peak, and for sale at $1.5M
Vid.AI turns a script or idea into a finished faceless video — voiceover, visuals, edit — in minutes. Its verified record has two halves: six months holding $83K–$90K, then five straight down months to $39,432 in October 2026. The business listed for sale on September 15, mid-slide, at $1,500,000.
Product at a glance
Summary
What this business is
Vid.AI is a self-serve AI video generator for faceless creators: scripts in, finished videos out, at $59–$199 a month. The verified record starts in December 2025 at $84,294 and holds an $83K–$90K plateau through May — then falls every month: $61,905 in June, $39,432 by October, down 56% from the January peak. MRR, at $51,332 from 750 subscriptions, now sits above monthly revenue, and its 30-day growth reading is positive (+8.7%) — the subscription stock is recovering faster than the cash line, or annual-plan mix is muddying both. The listing, live since September 15 at $1,500,000, has drawn 52 offers, the most of any listing in this library.
Why these scores? See the reasons in Key takeaways →
Momentum
Declining. Revenue is down 33.6% over the last three complete months and has fallen five months straight — Declining on the v2 rule. The MRR cross-check softens but does not reverse it: MRR growth of +8.7% over 30 days applies to a falling base.Derived
Best suited for
Builder (main). A consumer-creator tool riding the faceless-video wave: distribution and AI model costs, not features, decide its fate.
Operator (second). A live case study in selling a declining asset: when the listing went up, what the multiple was anchored to, and what 52 offers mean.
Key findings
Product overview
The faceless-video promise, productised: script in, video out.
Vid.AI generates the whole artefact — voiceover, visuals, edit — from an idea or a script, in minutes, with no filming or editing skill required. The positioning is economic, not creative: its homepage headline promises “monetizable AI videos”, selling the viewer a channel business rather than a tool.[2]
That promise is also the exposure. The product’s customers are themselves dependent on platform rules for AI-generated content, and Vid.AI’s own value sits on top of foundation models it does not own — every capability jump by a model provider is simultaneously Vid.AI’s upgrade and its competitors’.[1]Our read
How it compares
| Business | What it does | MRR or pricing | The difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vid.AI | AI video generator (long and short form) | $59–$199/mo · MRR $51,332 | The incumbent of this table — and the only one shrinking |
| StoryShort | AI faceless video generator (short form) | $39–$129/mo | Short-form only; still growing its niche |
| Fliki | Text-to-video with AI voices and avatars | $28–$280/mo | Broader media toolkit, 2,000+ voices |
Pricing as published on each pricing page, Nov 2026; MRR from TrustMRR where listed.[1][4][5] Every row of this table wraps the same generation models. The competition is not capability — it is who owns the creator audience and who survives the next model release.
What the site looks like
What to look for
- 1The headline sells the outcome, not the tool: “Start generating monetizable AI videos in minutes” — the buyer is promised a revenue stream.Fact
- 2The page leads with faceless formats — YouTube videos, Shorts, TikToks, Reels — and animated AI avatars as the differentiator.Fact
What to look for
- 1The plans as captured: Starter $59/mo · Plus $99/mo · Pro $199/mo — the same lineup the pricing chapter below works through.Fact
Revenue analysis
Two businesses in one chart: a $90K plateau and a five-month slide.
The daily series is spiky in the way of consumer tools: $38,199 across the 29 complete days, a best day of $3,058 (Nov 8) and no zero days. November’s partial month runs at 97% of October’s daily pace — the first hint that the slide is finding a floor around $39K–$40K.Derived
| Reading | MRR | Active subscriptions | MRR per subscription |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 12, 2026 | $51,332 | 750 | $68.44 |
Daily revenue
TrustMRR snapshot — positive against a falling revenue line.Fact
January 2026, on the plateau.Fact
Daily pace vs October.Derived
The shape of the record
The plateau matters because it proves the level was real: six months between $82.6K and $89.8K is not a spike, it is a business. The slide matters because it is orderly — no single collapse month, just a steady bleed of roughly 8–25% a month, the shape of churn compounding or a channel quietly throttling.Derived
Against that, the subscription stock is behaving better than the cash: MRR of $51,332 against October revenue of $39,432 is an unusual inversion, and MRR grew 8.7% over the last 30 days. Annual plans collected earlier can produce exactly this picture — cash recognised ahead of the subscription curve — which would make the revenue line look worse than the underlying base. It would also mean some of next year’s cash is already collected.Our read
A note on the numbers
Three totals coexist in the profile: the monthly series sums to $779,104 including November’s partial month; the stated last-12-months figure is $814,363 and all-time revenue is $1,671,852. The gaps are the months before December 2025 that the public monthly series does not show — the business was founded in September 2024. This report treats the monthly series as canonical for trend and the all-time figure as the cumulative total.
Market
Faceless video tooling is a feature race on rented capability: OpenAI, ElevenLabs and their peers supply the voices and models to every vendor on the shelf at once. What differentiates is distribution — founder audience, affiliate creators, app-store and search presence — and that is precisely what a buyer cannot fully diligence from outside.Our read
For buyers: the listing, checked
The largest audience of any listing in this library — 52 offers for a business whose revenue has halved.
October 2026 vs January 2026.Derived
The 3.1× headline multiple is computed off the current, depressed 30 days. Against the plateau it is far cheaper: the ask is 1.4 times the annualised January peak and 0.9 times everything the business has ever earned — the only listing in this library asking less than its own all-time revenue. The price says the seller knows the trend is the story; the 52 offers say the market is listening.Derived
Other AI content businesses for sale
| Business | What it does | Best month | Latest full month | On sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vid.AI | AI video generator | $89,846 (Jan 2026) | $39,432 (Oct 2026) | $1,500,000 · 3.1× |
| White Glove Content | Done-for-you faceless video studio | $68,372 (Oct 2026) | $68,372 (Oct 2026) | $2,500,000 · 3.5× |
| Laper | AI screenwriting software | $53,464 (Oct 2026) | $53,464 (Oct 2026) | $1,470,500 · 2.2× |
| Lunchbreak | AI humanizer | $52,503 (Mar 2026) | $36,625 (Oct 2026) | $1,500,000 · 3.5× |
| Penmo | AI essay writing tool | $7,960 (Jan 2026) | $6,725 (Oct 2026) | $300,000 · 4.4× |
Monthly verified revenue and listing data from each TrustMRR page, read Nov 12, 2026. Multiples as TrustMRR shows them (ask ÷ 30-day revenue × 12).[1][6][7][8][9]
Two of the five ask more than Vid.AI on a fraction of its revenue history; White Glove asks $1M more on a seven-month record. Vid.AI is the inverse case — the deepest history, the worst trend. Which discount is correct depends entirely on whether October is a floor or a waypoint.Derived
What running it involves
| Area | What we can see | What a buyer must find out |
|---|---|---|
| Team | 2–5 people, bootstrapped[1] | Who runs support and model ops, and whether the founder’s audience is part of the deal |
| Model costs | Generation runs on third-party AI models | Gross margin per video at current API prices — and at the prices after the next repricing |
| Channel dependence | Founder has 16,713 X followers; direct is 47% of traffic | How much acquisition stops if the founder stops posting |
| Customer quality | 750 subscriptions, est. 100,000 users claimedFounder | What share of subscribers run monetised channels vs hobby accounts that churn with them |
From the TrustMRR listing and profile[1]; the seller’s message on the listing references figures that are only visible after login.
Where a new owner could take it
Stabilise, then upsell the base. 750 paying creators with an average of $68 a month is a distribution asset: templates, niche packs and channel analytics are upsells that do not depend on winning new traffic in a crowded shelf.Our read
Become the workflow, not the generator. Generation is commoditising; scheduling, multi-channel posting and performance feedback are not. The rival set already shows where the shelf is moving — done-for-you and autopilot — and Vid.AI has the base to follow.Our read
Questions to ask the seller
| # | Ask | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | What changed in June — a channel, a price, or a model? | Five straight down months with no single break month suggests compounding churn or a throttled channel; the fix differs completely by cause |
| 2 | Why is MRR above revenue, and how much cash is annual plans already collected? | The inversion decides whether the buyer is purchasing future revenue or revenue already banked |
| 3 | What is the gross margin per generated minute at each tier? | On rented models, margin is a negotiation with suppliers the buyer inherits |
| 4 | How many of the 750 subscriptions are on channels that are themselves monetised? | Subscribers whose channels earn tend to stay; hobbyists churn with their channels |
Our list, built from what the public data cannot show.
This is information for due diligence, not investment advice. Oddig has no relationship with the seller or TrustMRR and receives nothing from any sale.
Pricing: $59 to $199 on a crowded shelf
Three tiers aimed at individual creators.
| Plan | Price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | $59/mo | Entry generation tier for new channels (40 short videos) |
| Plus | $99/mo | Premium models, 120 videos — the page’s most popular |
| Pro | $199/mo | Top tier, 300 videos for volume producers |
The derived average subscription pays $68.44 — above Starter, well below Plus — so the paying base leans to the entry tier, with a minority of power users carrying the average up. At capture time the page ran 50% off the first month on every tier, with up to 22% off annual billing.[1][2]
A correction to the secondary record: TrustMRR’s profile still lists a $39 Starter tier. The live pricing page (captured in full for this report, Nov 12) shows $59 — this report uses the live page.[1][2]
Nothing in the ladder defends itself: StoryShort charges $39 at entry, Fliki starts at $28. When every rival wraps the same models, price competition is a symptom of the real contest — audience ownership.Our read
Where customers come from
A founder audience and direct traffic — falling together with revenue since autumn.
Direct is 38.73% of measured traffic, organic search close behind at 34.78% — and founder Priyam Raj carries 16,713 X followers, the classic build-in-public funnel for creator tools.[1][3]
FactSemrush tracks 1,717 organic keywords; in the US the single biggest driver is the generic term “vid” — about two-thirds of US organic traffic — ahead of the brand terms themselves.[3]
FactSemrush estimates visits fell 18.26% in October to ~97K, alongside the revenue slide — and the geography is skewed: India is 43.86% of visits against 25.08% from the US, for a ladder priced in dollars.[3]
FactTraffic figures are Semrush estimates for October 2026, read Nov 12–13, 2026 — modelled data, not the company’s analytics; the TrustMRR profile connects no analytics of its own.[3]
Growth strategies
Two moves that built the plateau — and explain its limits.
Timeline
- Sep 242024ProductFounding date on TrustMRR; founder Priyam Raj.[1]
- Jan2026RevenuePeak month: $89,846, on a six-month plateau between $83K and $90K.[1]
- Jun2026RevenueThe slide begins: $61,905, down 26% from May.[1]
- Sep 152026RevenueListed for sale at $1,500,000 after three down months.[1]
- Oct2026RevenueFifth straight down month: $39,432. MRR, though, is $51,332 and rising at +8.7% over 30 days.[1]
Key takeaways
Vid.AI shows the full arc of the AI creator-tool boom in one verified record: a real plateau, an orderly slide, and an exit run in the open with the numbers doing the talking.
Why we scored it this way
Copy
- Frame the outcome when the tool is a commodity. “Monetizable videos” built a $90K plateau on the same models everyone else rents.
- Keep verified books before you need them. The TrustMRR record turned a declining asset into a 52-offer auction.
Avoid
- Confusing traffic with demand. Visits rose 51% in October while revenue fell; top-of-funnel you cannot convert is a cost, not an asset.
- Waiting for the chart to make the decision. The listing went up after three down months; the plateau price was gone by then.
Our predictions
Three dated calls. The MRR call is the interesting one: it tests whether the subscription stock really is recovering underneath the revenue slide.
Track record: the predictions in our earlier reports are still open; the first checks land Dec 1, 2026. We mark each prediction right or wrong on its date and keep the result on the page.
What could prove us wrong
Things that would change our read, and how to check them.
- The slide may already be over. November’s pace is 97% of October and MRR is growing again; two months holding the $39K–$52K band would reframe the story from decline to reset.Check: monthly revenue for Dec 2026 and Jan 2027 against the $39K–$52K band.
- The auction may clear above the narrative. With 52 offers, a sale near the $1.5M ask would show the market pricing the plateau’s brand and base, not the last five months.Check: the TrustMRR listing status on Mar 31, 2027.
- The decline may be broadening. Visits fell with revenue in October while MRR rose; if visits and subscriptions fall together into the new year, the reset story becomes a share-loss story.Check: Semrush visits and subscription counts for vid.ai in early 2027.
Appendix
Frequently asked
How much does Vid.AI make?
$39,697 in the 30 days to Nov 12, 2026, verified through Stripe on TrustMRR. MRR is $51,332 from 750 subscriptions; all-time verified revenue is $1,671,852.
Is Vid.AI growing?
No — revenue has fallen five straight months, from $89,846 in January 2026 to $39,432 in October (−56%). MRR is behaving better (+8.7% over 30 days), and November’s pace suggests the fall is decelerating.
Why is Vid.AI for sale?
The listing gives no public reason. It went live on Sep 15, 2026 at $1,500,000 (3.1 times current revenue) and had received 52 offers by Nov 12 — the most of any listing in our library.
How much does Vid.AI cost?
Starter $59, Plus $99 and Pro $199 a month (pricing page, Nov 2026; a 50%-off first-month promotion was running at capture). The average subscription actually pays $68.44.
Sources
- [1]TrustMRR: Vid.AI — revenue, MRR, subscriptions, daily and monthly data, listing details. Verified through a Stripe API key. Synced 2026-11-12.
- [2]Vid.AI — product description, offer and pricing as shown on the site, Nov 2026.
- [3]Semrush: vid.ai — traffic estimates for October 2026 (visits ~97K, channels, keywords), read Nov 12–13, 2026. Modelled estimates, not measured analytics.
- [4]StoryShort pricing — competitor pricing as shown on the page, Nov 2026.
- [5]Fliki pricing — competitor pricing as shown on the page, Nov 2026.
- [6]TrustMRR: White Glove Content — comparable listing data. Verified through a Stripe API key. Synced 2026-11-12.
- [7]TrustMRR: Laper — comparable listing data. Verified through a Stripe API key. Synced 2026-11-12.
- [8]TrustMRR: Penmo — comparable listing data. Verified through a Stripe API key. Synced 2026-11-12.
- [9]TrustMRR: Lunchbreak — comparable listing data. Verified through a Stripe API key. Synced 2026-11-12.
What we could not include: Vid.AI’s public review footprint is too thin to support a customer-voice section — its Product Hunt page carries a 5.0 rating from only 2 reviews, and its G2 listing carries zero reviews — so the framework shows the gap rather than filling it. Treat any single-review claim about this product accordingly.
Screenshots © Vid.AI, used for commentary. Oddig has no business relationship with Vid.AI. Numbers change daily; check the sources for the latest.
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