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Creative Tim UI and AI tools: $1K a month, self-reported in 2022
Creative Tim sells UI building blocks, templates, AI agents, automation workflows and tools for building AI-powered applications. Its $1K a month was founder-reported on the Indie Hackers product page (not independently verified), as of March 2022.
What it actually sells
Creative Tim sells UI blocks, templates, AI agents, automation workflows and AI app-building tools. Its AI app builder creates deployed, editable websites, dashboards, slide decks and ad sets. Its UI blocks include Registry and MCP support.
The site also lists n8n workflow templates for email, social media, CRM and marketing, plus premium templates and dashboards supporting Astro, Tailwind CSS, React, Vue, HTML, Bootstrap and Angular. The stated audience is: "Whether you're a developer, maker, founder, or growth marketer, Creative Tim helps you ship faster."
How it charges
Basic Access Pass costs $29/month or $199/year. PRO Access Pass costs $49/month or $349/year and includes everything in Basic plus 3 OpenClaw / Hermes agents, AI tools and automation. Business Access Pass costs $89/month or $599/year and includes everything in PRO plus 10 OpenClaw / Hermes agents.
Where customers come from
The site includes a blog. It also has a community marketplace where people can discover pre-built AI Agents, publish their own AI Agents, and share expertise and services. Creative Tim claims more than 2.7 million registered accounts, more than 8.6 million cumulative downloads and more than 48,000 GitHub cumulative stars.
What stands out
Creative Tim claims more than 2.7 million registered accounts, more than 8.6 million cumulative downloads, more than 48,000 GitHub cumulative stars and more than 280,000 monthly NPM downloads. Its agents can run continuously on secured servers: "Deploy autonomous AI agents that run 24/7 on secured servers. Web chat, Telegram, skills system, and full Control UI."
From the official site
Whether you're a developer, maker, founder, or growth marketer, Creative Tim helps you ship faster.
Deploy autonomous AI agents that run 24/7 on secured servers. Web chat, Telegram, skills system, and full Control UI.
Excerpts from the official website, fetched October 1, 2026.
Where it sits in the data
Creative Tim's $1K a month is higher than 40% of the 6,604 projects with founder-reported monthly revenue in our dataset; the median across them is $2K. Snapshot: 2026-09-30. The dataset only covers founders who chose to publish their numbers, so it leans toward businesses that work; use it for scale, not as an average.
Currency
All figures are in US dollars as published. A rough yuan or euro conversion is not applied here because prices, taxes and acquisition costs differ by country.
Could you build something like this?
In my view, demand would come from developers, makers, founders and growth marketers who need UI components, application-building tools, agents and workflow templates. Distribution would need visible surfaces such as a blog, community marketplace, skills library, integrations and open-source projects.
The hard parts include maintaining multiple products, supporting several frontend technologies, keeping agent infrastructure secure and handling updates across external platforms. Competition would come from other component libraries, app builders, agent tools and automation-template businesses.
Verdict: Needs real work.
One thing to take from it
Creative Tim presents several product lines under access passes, including UI blocks, templates, agents, automation workflows and AI app-building tools, alongside a community marketplace and community-published agent capabilities. Its site also includes a blog.
Sources
- Creative Tim official website, fetched October 1, 2026
- Indie Hackers product page: revenue founder-reported on the Indie Hackers product page (not independently verified), as of March 2022
Revenue, team and start-cost figures are what the founder reported at the interview date, not current figures and not a prediction of what you will earn. Product and pricing facts come from the business's own website as checked on 30 September 2026. Method & sources · Disclosure