Platforms we track
44 platforms are tracked here. 26 of them have open listings in our index. The rest keep a page because their status is worth knowing.
Quick comparison
Compare the work and advertised rates in each feed. Open a platform profile for entry requirements and payment terms.
The band is the middle 50% of distinct advertised hourly rate tops, including “up to” rates. These are advertised ceilings, not earnings. Counts are open rows in our index, not unique projects. Listing sightings show when source listings were last seen, which can differ across rows.
| Platform | Advertised top-rate band | Open listings in index | Most listed work |
|---|---|---|---|
| micro1 | $45–$130/hr 128 distinct hourly rate bands across 343 listings | 351 Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC Original feed ↗ | Domain experts (134), Other AI work (72) |
| Mercor | $70–$150/hr 83 distinct hourly rate bands across 215 listings | 250 Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC Original feed ↗ | Domain experts (84), Other AI work (65) |
| AfterQuery | $63–$123/hr 43 distinct hourly rate bands across 219 listings | 219 Listings last seen: 2026-10-12 UTC Original feed ↗ | Domain experts (88), Voice & audio (49) |
| xAI Specialist AI Tutors | $75–$100/hr 5 distinct hourly rate bands across 25 listings | 25 Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC Original feed ↗ | Multilingual & translation (18), Rating & model evaluation (4) |
| Alignerr | $50–$120/hr 67 distinct hourly rate bands across 627 listings | 627 Listings last seen: 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-13 UTC Original feed ↗ | Domain experts (176), Coding & software eval (144) |
| Meridial (Invisible) | $28–$65/hr 29 distinct hourly rate bands across 762 listings | 769 Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC Original feed ↗ | Multilingual & translation (420), Rating & model evaluation (144) |
| Terac | $40–$90/hr 13 distinct hourly rate bands across 19 listings | 60 Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC Original feed ↗ | Domain experts (24), Other AI work (12) |
| Handshake AI | $55–$110/hr 30 distinct hourly rate bands across 222 listings | 222 Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC Original feed ↗ | Domain experts (81), Other AI work (78) |
| Babel Audio | Not enough rate data 2 distinct US dollar hourly rate bands. At least 5 needed. | 43 Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC Original feed ↗ | Voice & audio (43) |
| SME Careers | $27–$80/hr 26 distinct hourly rate bands across 735 listings | 735 Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC Original feed ↗ | Other AI work (366), Multilingual & translation (164) |
| Turing | $20–$100/hr 6 distinct hourly rate bands across 23 listings | 258 Listings last seen: 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-13 UTC Original feed ↗ | Coding & software eval (76), Domain experts (67) |
| 10x Team | Paid in EUR 91 distinct hourly rate bands, all in EUR. Ranges here count US dollar rates only. | 126 Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC Original feed ↗ | Domain experts (55), Rating & model evaluation (50) |
| DataAnnotation | Not enough rate data 4 distinct US dollar hourly rate bands. At least 5 needed. | 112 Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC Original feed ↗ | Domain experts (40), Multilingual & translation (40) |
| Rise Data Labs | $40–$60/hr 11 distinct hourly rate bands across 88 listings | 88 Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC Original feed ↗ | Multilingual & translation (38), Coding & software eval (19) |
| RWS TrainAI | $16–$24/hr 18 distinct hourly rate bands across 64 listings | 65 Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC Original feed ↗ | Multilingual & translation (53), Voice & audio (12) |
| Lionbridge | $17–$34/hr 25 distinct hourly rate bands across 40 listings | 45 Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC Original feed ↗ | Voice & audio (39), Paid studies (4) |
| Claru | $25–$50/hr 11 distinct hourly rate bands across 40 listings | 40 Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC Original feed ↗ | Data annotation (27), Domain experts (4) |
| Braintrust | $18–$90/hr 20 distinct hourly rate bands across 25 listings | 30 Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC Original feed ↗ | Domain experts (13), Voice & audio (7) |
| TransPerfect DataForce | Not enough rate data 0 distinct US dollar hourly rate bands. At least 5 needed. | 25 Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC Original feed ↗ | Voice & audio (15), Multilingual & translation (7) |
| Innodata | Not enough rate data 4 distinct US dollar hourly rate bands. At least 5 needed. 1 more in CAD is not counted. | 19 Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC Original feed ↗ | Other AI work (9), Rating & model evaluation (3) |
| Vetto | Not enough rate data 1 distinct US dollar hourly rate band. At least 5 needed. | 14 Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC Original feed ↗ | Domain experts (7), Rating & model evaluation (3) |
| Grayder | $20–$50/hr 9 distinct hourly rate bands across 13 listings | 13 Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC Original feed ↗ | Data annotation (4), Domain experts (3) |
| Workada | Not enough rate data 4 distinct US dollar hourly rate bands. At least 5 needed. | 7 Listings last seen: 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-13 UTC Original feed ↗ | Domain experts (3), Other AI work (3) |
| iMerit Scholars | Not enough rate data 3 distinct US dollar hourly rate bands. At least 5 needed. | 6 Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC Original feed ↗ | Rating & model evaluation (4), Multilingual & translation (1) |
| Sovrano AI | Paid in EUR 1 distinct hourly rate band, all in EUR. Ranges here count US dollar rates only. | 3 Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC Original feed ↗ | Domain experts (2), Paid studies (1) |
| Outlier (Scale AI) | Not enough rate data 1 distinct US dollar hourly rate band. At least 5 needed. | 1 Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC Original feed ↗ | Multilingual & translation (1) |
| Fleet AI | Not enough rate data 0 distinct US dollar hourly rate bands. At least 5 needed. | 0Original feed ↗ | No measured work mix |
| G2i | Not enough rate data 0 distinct US dollar hourly rate bands. At least 5 needed. | 0Original feed ↗ | No measured work mix |
| Pasiflora AI | Not enough rate data 0 distinct US dollar hourly rate bands. At least 5 needed. | 0Original feed ↗ | No measured work mix |
- micro1
- Advertised top-rate band
- $45–$130/hr
128 distinct hourly rate bands across 343 listings
- Open listings in index
- 351
Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC
Original feed ↗ - Most listed work
- Domain experts (134), Other AI work (72)
- Mercor
- Advertised top-rate band
- $70–$150/hr
83 distinct hourly rate bands across 215 listings
- Open listings in index
- 250
Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC
Original feed ↗ - Most listed work
- Domain experts (84), Other AI work (65)
- AfterQuery
- Advertised top-rate band
- $63–$123/hr
43 distinct hourly rate bands across 219 listings
- Open listings in index
- 219
Listings last seen: 2026-10-12 UTC
Original feed ↗ - Most listed work
- Domain experts (88), Voice & audio (49)
- xAI Specialist AI Tutors
- Advertised top-rate band
- $75–$100/hr
5 distinct hourly rate bands across 25 listings
- Open listings in index
- 25
Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC
Original feed ↗ - Most listed work
- Multilingual & translation (18), Rating & model evaluation (4)
- Alignerr
- Advertised top-rate band
- $50–$120/hr
67 distinct hourly rate bands across 627 listings
- Open listings in index
- 627
Listings last seen: 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-13 UTC
Original feed ↗ - Most listed work
- Domain experts (176), Coding & software eval (144)
- Meridial (Invisible)
- Advertised top-rate band
- $28–$65/hr
29 distinct hourly rate bands across 762 listings
- Open listings in index
- 769
Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC
Original feed ↗ - Most listed work
- Multilingual & translation (420), Rating & model evaluation (144)
- Terac
- Advertised top-rate band
- $40–$90/hr
13 distinct hourly rate bands across 19 listings
- Open listings in index
- 60
Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC
Original feed ↗ - Most listed work
- Domain experts (24), Other AI work (12)
- Handshake AI
- Advertised top-rate band
- $55–$110/hr
30 distinct hourly rate bands across 222 listings
- Open listings in index
- 222
Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC
Original feed ↗ - Most listed work
- Domain experts (81), Other AI work (78)
- Babel Audio
- Advertised top-rate band
- Not enough rate data
2 distinct US dollar hourly rate bands. At least 5 needed.
- Open listings in index
- 43
Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC
Original feed ↗ - Most listed work
- Voice & audio (43)
- SME Careers
- Advertised top-rate band
- $27–$80/hr
26 distinct hourly rate bands across 735 listings
- Open listings in index
- 735
Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC
Original feed ↗ - Most listed work
- Other AI work (366), Multilingual & translation (164)
- Turing
- Advertised top-rate band
- $20–$100/hr
6 distinct hourly rate bands across 23 listings
- Open listings in index
- 258
Listings last seen: 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-13 UTC
Original feed ↗ - Most listed work
- Coding & software eval (76), Domain experts (67)
- 10x Team
- Advertised top-rate band
- Paid in EUR
91 distinct hourly rate bands, all in EUR. Ranges here count US dollar rates only.
- Open listings in index
- 126
Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC
Original feed ↗ - Most listed work
- Domain experts (55), Rating & model evaluation (50)
- DataAnnotation
- Advertised top-rate band
- Not enough rate data
4 distinct US dollar hourly rate bands. At least 5 needed.
- Open listings in index
- 112
Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC
Original feed ↗ - Most listed work
- Domain experts (40), Multilingual & translation (40)
- Rise Data Labs
- Advertised top-rate band
- $40–$60/hr
11 distinct hourly rate bands across 88 listings
- Open listings in index
- 88
Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC
Original feed ↗ - Most listed work
- Multilingual & translation (38), Coding & software eval (19)
- RWS TrainAI
- Advertised top-rate band
- $16–$24/hr
18 distinct hourly rate bands across 64 listings
- Open listings in index
- 65
Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC
Original feed ↗ - Most listed work
- Multilingual & translation (53), Voice & audio (12)
- Lionbridge
- Advertised top-rate band
- $17–$34/hr
25 distinct hourly rate bands across 40 listings
- Open listings in index
- 45
Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC
Original feed ↗ - Most listed work
- Voice & audio (39), Paid studies (4)
- Claru
- Advertised top-rate band
- $25–$50/hr
11 distinct hourly rate bands across 40 listings
- Open listings in index
- 40
Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC
Original feed ↗ - Most listed work
- Data annotation (27), Domain experts (4)
- Braintrust
- Advertised top-rate band
- $18–$90/hr
20 distinct hourly rate bands across 25 listings
- Open listings in index
- 30
Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC
Original feed ↗ - Most listed work
- Domain experts (13), Voice & audio (7)
- TransPerfect DataForce
- Advertised top-rate band
- Not enough rate data
0 distinct US dollar hourly rate bands. At least 5 needed.
- Open listings in index
- 25
Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC
Original feed ↗ - Most listed work
- Voice & audio (15), Multilingual & translation (7)
- Innodata
- Advertised top-rate band
- Not enough rate data
4 distinct US dollar hourly rate bands. At least 5 needed. 1 more in CAD is not counted.
- Open listings in index
- 19
Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC
Original feed ↗ - Most listed work
- Other AI work (9), Rating & model evaluation (3)
- Vetto
- Advertised top-rate band
- Not enough rate data
1 distinct US dollar hourly rate band. At least 5 needed.
- Open listings in index
- 14
Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC
Original feed ↗ - Most listed work
- Domain experts (7), Rating & model evaluation (3)
- Grayder
- Advertised top-rate band
- $20–$50/hr
9 distinct hourly rate bands across 13 listings
- Open listings in index
- 13
Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC
Original feed ↗ - Most listed work
- Data annotation (4), Domain experts (3)
- Workada
- Advertised top-rate band
- Not enough rate data
4 distinct US dollar hourly rate bands. At least 5 needed.
- Open listings in index
- 7
Listings last seen: 2026-10-12 to 2026-10-13 UTC
Original feed ↗ - Most listed work
- Domain experts (3), Other AI work (3)
- iMerit Scholars
- Advertised top-rate band
- Not enough rate data
3 distinct US dollar hourly rate bands. At least 5 needed.
- Open listings in index
- 6
Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC
Original feed ↗ - Most listed work
- Rating & model evaluation (4), Multilingual & translation (1)
- Sovrano AI
- Advertised top-rate band
- Paid in EUR
1 distinct hourly rate band, all in EUR. Ranges here count US dollar rates only.
- Open listings in index
- 3
Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC
Original feed ↗ - Most listed work
- Domain experts (2), Paid studies (1)
- Outlier (Scale AI)
- Advertised top-rate band
- Not enough rate data
1 distinct US dollar hourly rate band. At least 5 needed.
- Open listings in index
- 1
Listings last seen: 2026-10-13 UTC
Original feed ↗ - Most listed work
- Multilingual & translation (1)
- Fleet AI
- Advertised top-rate band
- Not enough rate data
0 distinct US dollar hourly rate bands. At least 5 needed.
- Open listings in index
- 0Original feed ↗
- Most listed work
- No measured work mix
- G2i
- Advertised top-rate band
- Not enough rate data
0 distinct US dollar hourly rate bands. At least 5 needed.
- Open listings in index
- 0Original feed ↗
- Most listed work
- No measured work mix
- Pasiflora AI
- Advertised top-rate band
- Not enough rate data
0 distinct US dollar hourly rate bands. At least 5 needed.
- Open listings in index
- 0Original feed ↗
- Most listed work
- No measured work mix
Other tracked platforms (15)
No live feed in this index. Their profiles explain the status and available evidence.
| Platform | Advertised top-rate band | Open listings in index | Most listed work |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethos | No live feed here See the profile for status and available evidence. | Unavailable | No measured work mix |
| AuraOne | Not listed here See the profile for status and available evidence. | Unavailable | No measured work mix |
| CrowdGen by Appen | Not listed here See the profile for status and available evidence. | Unavailable | No measured work mix |
| HumanSignal | No live feed here See the profile for status and available evidence. | Unavailable | No measured work mix |
| Luel | No live feed here See the profile for status and available evidence. | Unavailable | No measured work mix |
| Mereden | No live feed here See the profile for status and available evidence. | Unavailable | No measured work mix |
| Mindrift | Not listed here See the profile for status and available evidence. | Unavailable | No measured work mix |
| NobleStark Hatch | No live feed here See the profile for status and available evidence. | Unavailable | No measured work mix |
| OneForma (Centific) | No live feed here See the profile for status and available evidence. | Unavailable | No measured work mix |
| OpenTrain AI | Not listed here See the profile for status and available evidence. | Unavailable | No measured work mix |
| Perit | No live feed here See the profile for status and available evidence. | Unavailable | No measured work mix |
| Pila8 | Not listed here See the profile for status and available evidence. | Unavailable | No measured work mix |
| Proxion | No live feed here See the profile for status and available evidence. | Unavailable | No measured work mix |
| TELUS Digital AI | Not listed here See the profile for status and available evidence. | Unavailable | No measured work mix |
| Welo Data (Welocalize) | Not listed here See the profile for status and available evidence. | Unavailable | No measured work mix |
- Ethos
- Advertised top-rate band
- No live feed here
See the profile for status and available evidence.
- Open listings in index
- Unavailable
- Most listed work
- No measured work mix
- AuraOne
- Advertised top-rate band
- Not listed here
See the profile for status and available evidence.
- Open listings in index
- Unavailable
- Most listed work
- No measured work mix
- CrowdGen by Appen
- Advertised top-rate band
- Not listed here
See the profile for status and available evidence.
- Open listings in index
- Unavailable
- Most listed work
- No measured work mix
- HumanSignal
- Advertised top-rate band
- No live feed here
See the profile for status and available evidence.
- Open listings in index
- Unavailable
- Most listed work
- No measured work mix
- Luel
- Advertised top-rate band
- No live feed here
See the profile for status and available evidence.
- Open listings in index
- Unavailable
- Most listed work
- No measured work mix
- Mereden
- Advertised top-rate band
- No live feed here
See the profile for status and available evidence.
- Open listings in index
- Unavailable
- Most listed work
- No measured work mix
- Mindrift
- Advertised top-rate band
- Not listed here
See the profile for status and available evidence.
- Open listings in index
- Unavailable
- Most listed work
- No measured work mix
- NobleStark Hatch
- Advertised top-rate band
- No live feed here
See the profile for status and available evidence.
- Open listings in index
- Unavailable
- Most listed work
- No measured work mix
- OneForma (Centific)
- Advertised top-rate band
- No live feed here
See the profile for status and available evidence.
- Open listings in index
- Unavailable
- Most listed work
- No measured work mix
- OpenTrain AI
- Advertised top-rate band
- Not listed here
See the profile for status and available evidence.
- Open listings in index
- Unavailable
- Most listed work
- No measured work mix
- Perit
- Advertised top-rate band
- No live feed here
See the profile for status and available evidence.
- Open listings in index
- Unavailable
- Most listed work
- No measured work mix
- Pila8
- Advertised top-rate band
- Not listed here
See the profile for status and available evidence.
- Open listings in index
- Unavailable
- Most listed work
- No measured work mix
- Proxion
- Advertised top-rate band
- No live feed here
See the profile for status and available evidence.
- Open listings in index
- Unavailable
- Most listed work
- No measured work mix
- TELUS Digital AI
- Advertised top-rate band
- Not listed here
See the profile for status and available evidence.
- Open listings in index
- Unavailable
- Most listed work
- No measured work mix
- Welo Data (Welocalize)
- Advertised top-rate band
- Not listed here
See the profile for status and available evidence.
- Open listings in index
- Unavailable
- Most listed work
- No measured work mix
Why some well-known platforms are not listed
A directory that never removes anything is just a scraper. A platform stops being listed here for one of four reasons, and each one is written up on its own page with the date and the evidence.
- The advertised rate is not what workers get. Where the gap is large and documented, carrying the listing next to honest ones teaches you to distrust both.
- The work pays below what this list is for. Simple tagging and rating tasks at a few dollars an hour are real work, and they are not worth an evening at these rates.
- There is no readable feed. Some platforms only take a profile and contact you later, so there is nothing to list and no rate to copy.
- The feed exists but cannot be trusted yet. Where a source is unstable or its rates cannot be verified, it stays off until it can.
Not being listed is not an accusation of fraud, and every one of these pages says what is true in the platform's favour too. 3 platforms are currently delisted for the first two reasons.
Live job feeds
Public hourly rates on job posts, typically $50–$200/hr for experts
Fast-growing Scale AI challenger ($500M valuation). Apply once, AI interview, then matched to projects.
Public hourly rates on every role, typically $10–$120/hr (plus per-task projects up to $2K)
One of the largest AI-work marketplaces; $10B valuation (Oct 2025). Rates and roles verified from their public listings.
Publishes a rate on the face of every listing on its public expert board, from $10–$30/hr on entry tracks to $200–$250/hr on specialist ones
YC-backed expert data platform. Its public board showed 126 open listings on 2026-08-26, each printing its own rate, no account needed.
Hourly ranges published on postings
Direct contractor roles at an AI lab. Generalist hiring paused in 2025; specialist tutors (STEM, medicine, finance) still recruited.
States "$80/hr average pay" on its own homepage. Every listing carries an hourly band, 67 different ones, running from $10–$15/hr at the bottom to $200–$400/hr at the top
Alignerr advertises each job many times over. Its board showed 5,530 listings on 2026-08-26 but only 469 separate jobs. Some are copied once per city, with the city name dropped into a single sentence of an otherwise identical posting, and every listing still says Remote. Others are simply repeated, word for word or lightly reworded. This directory lists each job once. Listings carry no date, and some workers report slow payment resolution, so apply with that in mind.
Wide bands (e.g. $6–$65/hr): exact rate set after evaluation
Invisible Technologies' expert-contractor network. 800+ open freelance AI-trainer projects.
Publishes a pay figure on every individual opportunity, from $2 to $400, though most of it is a one-off fee for a piece of work rather than an hourly rate. Its own landing pages advertise wider ranges by field, such as $60–$160/hr for finance, which no single listing matches
AI-native expert panel blending market research with frontier-AI evaluation work. The public board at terac.com/opportunities is readable without an account. Its board showed 73 open opportunities on 2026-08-26. Only 17 of them pay by the hour, 46 pay a one-time fee and 10 pay per task.
Publishes an “up to” rate on all 203 of its roles and never a band, 24 different values from up to $25/hr to up to $300/hr, with up to $80/hr in the middle. These are ceilings, not typical pay
PhD and graduate-focused AI training fellowship. Its own board showed 203 open roles on 2026-08-26, each on its own public page with a rate, no account needed.
Publishes a rate on every role, but the unit is an hour of audio delivered, not an hour worked. Conversation roles pay a flat rate per recorded hour of talking, which is close to an hourly wage. Transcription pays up to a stated figure per audio hour transcribed and voice acting a flat figure per recorded hour of finished audio, and both take several working hours to produce, so they are shown per task here and never as an hourly rate
San Francisco voice-data vendor that records conversations, transcripts and voice acting in 20+ languages for AI labs. Its public board showed 43 open roles on 2026-09-05, each on its own page with a rate, no account needed. Payouts are weekly. Worker reviews put the conversation roles near the advertised figure once matching wait is counted.
Checked 2026-10-04: every posting carries a structured rate. 1,694 of the 1,695 country postings were hourly in US dollars, and the other was a monthly staff salary in Bangladeshi taka on a hybrid role, which is not listed. The 735 postings listed here ran from 10 to 120 dollars an hour with a median of 30. SME's board prints most rates as a ceiling (Up to $50/hr), and this directory lists every one as a ceiling, including one role whose 1 dollar minimum SME's board prints as $1 - $70/hr. Rates are set per country. 22 of the 129 job titles listed here paid differently by country, and Materials Scientist ran from 30 dollars an hour in Spain, Italy, Portugal and Gibraltar to 95 in the United States, Germany and New Zealand. Three postings, at 2.50 and 3 dollars an hour, fall under this directory's 10 dollar floor, so they are not listed. SME's FAQ, read 2026-10-03, says rates are set per engagement
Checked 2026-10-04: SME Careers describes itself in its postings as an AI data services company and subsidiary of SuperAnnotate, and on 2026-10-03 its site footer named SME Solutions Inc. Its public board at sme.careers/jobs showed 261 roles to a signed-out visitor, each with its rate, behind 1,695 country postings, and 1,598 of those postings were remote contract work. 955 of the 1,695 said in their own text that there was no immediate project for the role, and this directory does not list them. On 2026-10-03 a role's own panel listed one application step, an AI interview for that role, and applying sent a signed-out visitor to sign in or sign up first. Some postings say selection then adds a domain task and a recruiter interview
Checked 2026-09-19: 30 of 226 postings stated a rate in their own text. Half were $15 or $20 an hour for AI quality analyst work in one language. Per-task rates ran from $30 to $400 on research, coding, voice and legal tasks. Three art roles estimated $7 an hour, under this directory's $10 floor, so they are not listed
Checked 2026-09-19: San Francisco company that supplies coding, STEM and expert training data to frontier AI labs, according to its own help centre. Its public board at work.turing.com/jobs showed 226 roles, nearly all remote contract work. Its on-site and hybrid office roles are not carried here. Applying needs a Turing account
Checked 2026-10-07: every AI trainer posting shows a euro hourly range, from 25 euros at the low end to 375 at the high end, for 8 to 20 hours a week of freelance work
Checked 2026-10-07: 10x Team B.V., incorporated in the Netherlands, places senior European professionals as AI trainers for AI labs. Its terms say that on AI lab projects it contracts with the lab itself and engages the expert as an independent contractor. Its board also carries fractional executive roles, which are not listed here
Public recruitment pages advertise up to $25–$50/hr for generalists, up to $75–$150+/hr for software engineers, and role-specific specialist figures. These are advertised ceilings; assessment results and available projects determine actual work and pay
Its public board has separate recruitment tracks with their own pay wording and application links. We refresh those pages in the jobs feed. Applicants complete assessments before project matching; these are ongoing talent-pool applications, not dated individual vacancies or guaranteed work.
Checked 2026-09-12: published hourly bands on public job pages. Roles without a published rate are excluded here
Checked 2026-09-12: public roles cover annotation, coding, languages and domain expertise. The board remains the source of availability, including older listings that are still advertised
Checked 2026-10-04: 45 of the 47 TrainAI postings state an hourly rate in their own text, and none fills Lever's salary field. Of the 38 postings outside the Search Engine Evaluator family and the talent pool, 37 quote US dollars, from 4 to 36.45 an hour, and the 8 Legal Annotators roles pay 13.50 to 36.45 US dollars an hour. The 8 Search Engine Evaluator postings give only a ceiling, up to 4 to 15 US dollars or up to 10 to 14 euros an hour. Of the 38, 7 pay under 10 US dollars an hour, so this directory's 10 dollar floor keeps them off the list
Checked 2026-10-04: RWS's public Lever board carried 47 postings, all on its TrainAI team. Of those, 20 were posted in September 2026, the newest on 2026-09-29, among them 8 Legal Annotators postings, one per language or script, posted on 2026-09-16 with a stated duration to the end of October. Another 15 date from before June 2026, including the 8 Search Engine Evaluator roles posted on 2024-10-14 and a talent-pool posting from 2025-03-14, which this directory does not list. Lever files 46 as temporary or contract roles and 1 as a part-time employee role in the United States
Checked 2026-10-07: 54 of 56 postings carry a structured rate in US dollars. 48 are hourly, from 7 to 45 dollars, and 7 of those are under this directory's 10 dollar floor and are not listed. 6 are one-time payments of 8 to 20 dollars for smartphone surveys and data collection
Checked 2026-10-07: Lionbridge's AI Data Training team posts freelance transcription, annotation and data collection projects on its own Lever board. Its site names Lionbridge Technologies, LLC
Publishes rates on individual role pages. Accepted footage is paid per hour of media and shown per task here. Below-floor roles are omitted.
Checked 2026-09-12: public roles span annotation, model evaluation and video capture. The open board determines availability because a still-listed role carried an expired validThrough date.
Checked 2026-09-12: this feed takes only AI-training roles with structured hourly or per-task budgets. Fixed-price projects and unpriced roles are excluded
Checked 2026-09-12: Trustpilot reviewers describe long screening processes and unsolicited contact after applying. These are individual reports about the marketplace, not verified outcomes for every employer
Published payment is often per accepted recording, photo, story or study session. An hour of accepted media is a task unit, not an hourly wage.
Checked 2026-09-13: public voice, video, photo and writing projects. A February 2026 Trustpilot reviewer reported unpaid voice recordings after declining further re-recording. DataForce replied offering to investigate the rejected recordings.
Contributor roles publish hourly pay. Repeated state copies with the same title and compensation collapse to one role. Canadian rates remain in CAD.
Checked 2026-09-13: the board mixes contributor projects and staff roles. Only the specified contributor titles and AI Solutions Engineer are included. Glassdoor's Generative AI Associate page showed 2.4 of 5 from 61 reviews, with individual reports of layoffs and flat pay.
Checked 2026-10-07: most roles pay a fixed US dollar fee per approved task or deliverable, from 30 to 60 dollars, paid in local currency. The hourly figures beside the fees are Vetto's own estimates and are not shown as rates here
Checked 2026-10-07: expert review and scenario writing projects in coding, health, law, finance, education, marketing and AI safety. Applications ask screening questions, and some postings add a short exercise
Checked 2026-10-05: every public role page publishes a USD hourly band, from 10 dollars for translation review to 50 to 100 dollars for clinical annotation
Checked 2026-10-05: clinical and research roles for doctors, scientists and regulatory specialists. Closed roles stay online marked closed and leave the board
Checked 2026-10-07: every public role page publishes a USD hourly rate, from 17 dollars for data labeling to 100 dollars for finance and life science roles. Pay is sent three times a week through Stripe
Checked 2026-10-07: six open roles in data labeling, video metadata, science charts, finance and life sciences. Every role includes a short interview with Workada's team
The public feed publishes explicit hourly rates alongside low-paying country variants. Roles below the directory floor and amounts without a currency or unit are omitted.
Checked 2026-09-12: Scholars posts AI evaluation and annotation contracts. A Trustpilot reviewer on 2025-12-22 reported roughly 2000 dollars unpaid for an OpenAI project. This is an individual worker report, not a verified finding about all contracts.
Checked 2026-09-20: every published role carries a structured rate. 21 were hourly, at 60 US dollars an hour for the slide and deck expert roles, 12 euros an hour for the native-speaker evaluator roles, 8 to 12 euros an hour for the speech data roles and 5 to 15 US dollars an hour for robotics annotation. One paid 500 US dollars per approved task. Four paid 1,000 euros a month, stored as an annual salary the way this directory stores every monthly figure. Eleven of the hourly roles state in their own payment terms that the rate is for a pilot and that production rates are still to be confirmed, so the euro figures on those may change. The roles at 8 euros an hour, and the monthly ones, fall under this directory's 10 dollar floor, so they are not listed
Checked 2026-09-20: Barcelona company, Sovrano AI, S.L., that runs an AI data services platform matching evaluators with client projects in annotation, RLHF, labelling and evaluation, according to its own terms of use. Its board at app.sovrano.ai/opportunities showed 36 records, 26 published and 10 closed. A signed-out visitor sees all 36 with their rates, and the 26 published ones with an Apply button, the closed ones reading View instead. Contracts are remote and independent, and applying needs a Sovrano account
Public opportunities advertise up-to hourly ceilings. Rates depend on assessment, location and project; onboarding or non-core work can pay less
Public project listings refresh automatically. General interest forms and listings with conflicting pay are excluded. Acceptance does not guarantee tasks or the advertised rate.
Fellow roles publish typical hourly ranges. Final compensation depends on domain, experience, location and engagement.
Checked 2026-09-13: eight active domain expert Fellow contracts. Screening questions vary by role. The thin review footprint was not used for a sentiment rating.
Explicit hourly ranges appear in the role descriptions. Weekly workload hours are kept separate from compensation.
Checked 2026-09-13: public AI code-evaluation contracts require experienced engineers. Trustpilot showed 4.2 of 5 from 57 reviews. A Glassdoor reviewer in June 2024 reported reduced client rates. G2i replied that it acted as recruiter and the client set the terms.
Rates come from each open role's headline pay field. Approved-participant and recorded-video payments stay task units. Separate proposal fees remain in the role description.
Checked 2026-09-13: three open roles and 124 talent-pool entries. Two open roles have a headline amount. The remaining role says its rate is set by the client project. No verified review page was used.
Tracked, but not currently listing
Publishes an exact rate and a weekly cap on each opportunity page, seen from $50/hr up to $225/hr depending on the role
a16z-backed expert network (May 2026). Voice-agent onboarding; work is matched inbound rather than browsed.
AuraOne advertises 3,346 specialist roles under its own name, and its own public feed gives 1,034 of them a Mercor job id.
Checked 2026-09-20: each of its 3,346 listings carries a sourceJobIds value in its own feed. 1,034 are Mercor list_ ids, 852 are AuraOne's own, and 1,460 are ids whose source could not be confirmed. All 30 Mercor ids sampled opened a Mercor role page, and it names AuraOne Human Data as the hiring organisation on all 3,346. Every listing is marked evergreen with no expiry and a status of active, and the newest posting date in the feed is July 2026.
CrowdGen by Appen was removed after our August 2026 review found missing pay information in the public project feed we checked and concerns in payment reports. Its current project terms need to be checked directly.
Appen's contributor platform (ex Appen Connect). Modest volume, clean structured pay data.
Checked 2026-10-04: its contributor page shows example rates for US residents, $22 to $45 an hour for AI response evaluation and $15 to $35 for data collection, both paid per accepted task, and $60 to $180 for domain expert review. It says each project shows its rate before work starts. Its Greenhouse postings give other figures in their text, from up to $6 an hour on several country data collection postings to up to $100 an hour for US candidates on its remote one.
Checked 2026-10-04: HumanSignal, Inc., the company behind the open source labeling tool Label Studio, runs this contributor sign-up for AI response evaluation, data collection and domain expert review. You create an account, build a profile and pass an identity check, and some projects add a skill screen or credential review. Projects are shown only after sign-in. The page says payouts are weekly in one place and that the cadence varies in two others, and it names no payout method. The terms linked under its sign-up form are the customer terms for its software, and we found no contributor terms. This directory does not read its Greenhouse board, so nothing from it is listed here.
Checked 2026-10-04: its contributor page showed six tasks with a rate each, $12 an hour for American English conversations among three people and $7.50 an hour for partner conversations in Uyghur, Tibetan, Hmong, Jamaican Creole and Guarani. Its terms say conversation pay is counted per participant by duration, that no rate is locked when you record or upload, and that the rate paid is the one in force when a submission is approved. Its contributor page says payouts are processed daily.
Checked 2026-10-04: Luel Inc. runs a data marketplace that pays contributors to record conversations, video and photos and licenses them to AI companies as training data. It is in Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch, and in May 2026 it announced a $31.2 million seed round led by General Catalyst and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Its terms ask that you be at least 18. You pick a task, record it in its app, and read a short phrase before each session so it can check your voice against your earlier recordings. We found no interview or skills test. Full task details sit behind sign-in and there is no public feed, so nothing from it is listed here.
Checked 2026-10-10: its site lists 33 roles, and 32 of them show an hourly band in US dollars, from $15 to $30 for robotics reviewers and driving experts up to $100 to $150 for olympiad medallists. Medical experts and STEM PhDs are shown at $80 to $140, legal experts at $70 to $130, and its general mathematics, coding and STEM evaluator roles at $20 to $40. The 33rd invites you to propose a role of your own and names no rate. Its role pages say the vetting task is paid and that payouts go out weekly. It publishes no dates on its roles, so no rate here is read from a dated listing.
Checked 2026-10-10: Mereden describes itself as a marketplace that matches credential-verified experts with AI labs and research teams for paid evaluation and data work. Its role pages say you are engaged by Mereden as an independent contractor, and its terms say paid work comes under separate project terms given at onboarding. No page we read names the company behind it, an address or a governing law, and its pages sign off only as meredenai.com. The domain meredenai.com was registered on 2026-08-13, according to the RDAP registry. That date is the start of the domain's current registration, not the company's founding. The steps are an account, a profile with your resume and work authorization, then a short paid vetting task in your domain. This directory does not ingest its roles, so nothing from it is listed here.
Mindrift listings advertised $15 to $100 an hour, but those figures belong to a specialist board most contributors never reach, and the open work underneath it is not the kind of pay this directory exists to point people at.
Toloka's freelance platform: all Toloka crowd tasks migrated here. Its listings are no longer carried here; see the notes above for why.
Checked 2026-10-04: its Hatch page lists five tracks with an hourly band each, $120 to $200 for agentic software engineering, $80 to $160 for code generation and review, $150 to $300 for cybersecurity and red-team work, $100 to $250 for math and formal reasoning, and $140 to $220 for custom eval and benchmark authoring. It says the trial task is paid but not how much, and that payouts are weekly. It publishes no individual openings, so no rate here is read from a listing.
Checked 2026-10-04: Hatch is the contractor network of Noble Stark LLC, which sells datasets, benchmarks and expert evaluations to AI companies. Its legal pages give an address in Newark, Delaware, and Delaware governing law, and do not say where the company was formed. Its pages give two founding years. Its about and press pages say 2024. Its careers page says 2020, and describes a technology company building digital products and talent placement solutions, with 100+ employees in 6 locations. Its about and Hatch pages say its network has 5,000+ vetted specialists. The domain noblestark.com was registered on 2025-08-08, according to the RDAP registry. That date is the start of the domain's current registration, not the company's founding. The steps are a short form, a paid trial task of about 2 to 3 hours, a 30 minute review with a domain lead, then a contractor agreement and an NDA.
Publishes no amount anywhere. States only that you see your rate before accepting a project, and that payment carries no minimum threshold
Data collection, annotation and linguistics projects. Its board showed 28 open projects on 2026-08-26, browsable without an account, but not one of them states a rate, which is why nothing from it can be listed here.
OpenTrain AI carries about 1,300 open roles and publishes a rate on most of them, but when this directory counted on 2026-09-05, about a sixth of its titles were near-exact copies of roles live on four other platforms.
Checked 2026-09-20: 1,306 open roles on its own board. On 2026-09-05, 238 of its roughly 1,350 titles were near-exact copies of roles live on Mercor, micro1, Alignerr and AfterQuery. Every page sampled names OpenTrain AI as the hiring and contracting organisation, and the apply link stays on app.opentrain.ai.
Checked 2026-10-04: its recording page pays per approved audio hour, $20 for read sessions, $22 for prompted speech, $24 for everyday rooms, $28 for conversations and $20 to $32 for accents it is short on. An audio hour is recorded audio, not time worked, and its own example puts a 20 minute session at about $7. Its careers page shows $17 to $45 per audio hour on some transcription and alignment roles, and $210 to $365 a month on its India rater and annotation contracts, which its job data states as 20,000 to 35,000 Indian rupees.
Checked 2026-10-04: Perit is the brand of Zyno AI Inc, a training-data company in Y Combinator's Fall 2026 batch, according to its own about page and YC. It pays people to record speech on their phones and runs a bench of transcribers, aligners and voice raters on its own platform, Foundry. Recording needs a sign-up and a mic check, and its page says there is no interview. Paid annotation work starts after you pass its training and test modules. Approved sessions are paid within seven days once your balance passes $10. Recording sessions are shown only after sign-in. Its careers page lists 11 roles, six with a structured monthly salary in Indian rupees and five with pay only in text or on application. This directory does not ingest them, so nothing from it is listed here.
Pila8's job pages advertise an estimated $10 to $50 an hour, but when we signed up on 2026-09-23, the only project its app offered us paid $6 an hour.
Checked 2026-09-23: three open roles, Audio Contributor, Conversational Recording Contributor and Single-Person Recording Contributor. Each page carries JobPosting markup with no salary field and the posting date 2026-03-16. Projects are listed only inside the app, after sign-up and a short first test.
Checked 2026-10-04: its experts page and its one posting advertise $75 to $300 an hour, set by specialization, seniority and project complexity, and say pay can rise for reviewers and project leads. It says the technical test is paid and that contractors invoice and are paid bi-weekly. It publishes no individual openings with their own rate, so no rate here is read from a listing.
Checked 2026-10-04: Proxion, Inc., a Delaware corporation headquartered in New York, hires finance professionals as independent contractors to build and review financial models, write expert questions and answers, and grade AI outputs. It asks for at least two years in investment banking, private equity or structured finance and at least 15 hours a week. The steps are an application, a screen, a paid technical test, an interview and onboarding. Its privacy policy names Persona for identity checks, Checkr or another provider for background screening where permitted, and Deel for payments. It has one generic posting on its own site and no job board, so nothing from it is listed here.
TELUS Digital AI had 67 open search and ads rating roles across 33 countries on 2026-09-20, but it does not publish what the work pays, so there is nothing here to copy.
Checked 2026-09-20: TELUS Digital's AI community board. Roles are the familiar rater families, Online Data Analyst 26, Media Search Analyst 17, Quality Assurance Rater 11 and Personalized Internet Assessor 6. Its detail pages carry no JobPosting markup and no posting date, and the board answers 403 to scripts.
Most of what Welo Data lists is search and ads quality rating rather than AI training, a third of its openings are more than six months old, and the rates that are published are the lowest of any feed this directory carried.
Welocalize's AI-data arm. Steady flow of search/ads rater and AI data roles.