Promote AI tools
Save · 0AI tools pay recurring affiliate commissions, and everyone is deciding which ones to use. If you have any audience, recommendations are inventory.
~480 people search this every month ↓ cooling off · US, measured
The short playbook
- Only promote tools you genuinely use. Trust is the entire asset.
- Join the affiliate programs of your daily stack.
- Make comparison and 'how I use it' content. It converts better than reviews.
- Prefer recurring-commission programs; they compound.
Tool stack
The affiliate programsai tools that pay you a cut of what your referrals spend, terms public and signup open
ElevenLabs Affiliates The best-known AI voice tool, so it sells itself in demos and tutorials. Pays 22% of everything a referred customer spends in their first 12 months (11% on Business plans), with a 90-day cookie, a $5 payout minimum, and monthly payouts through PartnerStack. Commissions only clear after a referred license has been active for more than 90 days.
Synthesia Affiliate Program AI avatar video demos extremely well in content, and Synthesia is the name people already search for. Pays 25% of all Starter and Creator plan payments for the first 12 months, with a 60-day cookie, run through Rewardful. Only Starter and Creator plans pay commission.
Murf Affiliate Program AI voiceover with the longest commission tail on this list, which suits evergreen how-to posts and videos. Pays 20% of every payment for up to 24 months per customer, with a 90-day cookie that restarts each time someone clicks again, paid through PartnerStack the month after you earn it.
Finding what to promotesee which ai tools people already want before you write a word
PartnerStack Marketplace One free login opens hundreds of software partner programs, ElevenLabs and Murf included, with every payout landing in one PayPal or Stripe account. Joining as a partner costs nothing. Its Trustpilot score sits at 2.0, with repeated complaints of delayed payouts and accounts banned before payout.
Product Hunt The daily launch feed shows which new AI tools people actually upvote and argue about, which beats guessing. Browsing, following launches, and reading the comment threads costs nothing.
The content surfacewhere your recommendations and links actually live
beehiiv A newsletter plus a hosted website in one, so your tool picks land in inboxes and stay findable on the web. The free Launch plan covers up to 2,500 subscribers with unlimited sends; Scale is $43 a month when you outgrow it. Automations and paid subscriptions sit behind the Scale plan.
Carrd A one-page site is all a tools-I-use page with your links needs, and Carrd builds one in an afternoon. Pro Standard is $19 a year for up to 10 sites with custom domains and forms. Sites are single pages only.
Ghost A real blog you own, which is where tool roundups and comparison posts can rank in search. The hosted Starter plan is $18 a month billed yearly with 1 staff user, 1,000 members, and no transaction fees on payments. There is no free hosted tier.
Link trackingcount which links get clicked so you know what converts
Geniuslink Short links with click counts and geo-routing, so an international reader still lands on a page they can buy from. $6 a month includes 1,000 clicks, then $3.50 per extra 1,000. A custom branded domain is a $50 a month add-on.
Pretty Links If your reviews live on WordPress, it turns messy affiliate URLs into clean links on your own domain and counts every click. The free plugin covers branded short links and click tracking; the Beginner plan is $99.60 for the first year and renews at $249. It only works on WordPress sites.
Common questions
What is affiliate marketing for AI tools?
It means recommending AI tools through your own content, a newsletter, a landing page, a small review site, and earning a cut when a reader signs up through your link. The programs in the tool stack above are real ones anyone can join: ElevenLabs, Synthesia, and Murf each pay a percentage of what the people you refer go on to spend. You get paid for sending customers, not for building the tool.
How do you start with no money?
Free. The affiliate programs above cost nothing to join, and you can publish on free surfaces: beehiiv is free up to 2,500 subscribers, Carrd is $19 a year for a simple site, and Ghost is open source. A link manager like Pretty Links or Geniuslink keeps your links tidy later, but you can start with the plain referral links each program hands you on day one.
Is this legit, and how does it actually work?
Yes, it is a real model: you share a unique referral link, and when someone buys through it the tool pays you a percentage of the sale, tracked through a network like PartnerStack. The one rule that is not optional is disclosure. The FTC requires you to clearly label affiliate links whenever you earn a commission from them, because that commission is a material connection your readers have a right to know about.
How do you actually get paid?
You earn a set percentage of what each referral pays, for a fixed window. From the programs above: ElevenLabs pays 22% of a referral's payments for their first 12 months, Murf pays 20% for 24 months, and Synthesia pays a recurring cut on its plans. Those are the programs' own published rates. What you take home depends entirely on how many people click and buy, so results vary and nobody can promise a number.
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