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Braintrust pay, read from its own job feed

AI work on a freelance marketplacelive feed
$29/hr
median top rate
$18–$90
typical range
$150/hr
highest rate
30
live roles

How much does Braintrust pay?

Braintrust advertises a median top rate of $29/hr, measured from 20 distinct advertised hourly rates among its 30 live roles on 2026-10-13. The middle half of those rates runs from $18 to $90/hr and the highest is $150/hr. Each rate is the top of a listing's advertised band, the most that role says it can pay, not a promised wage. Of the 30 live roles, 5 pay per task. That pay is left out of these figures and never turned into an hourly rate.

How we measure pay · Pay over time

What it advertises vs what its feed shows

Braintrust advertises
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
Its live listings show
Top rates of $18–$90/hr typical, median $29/hr, from 20 distinct advertised rates.

5 roles pay per task rather than per hour. We show those as per-task and never convert them into an hourly figure.

That median is 59% below the $70/hr median across every platform we track.

Before you apply to Braintrust

Rate before you apply
Published rates on listings this directory reads
How you get in
Public marketplace jobs with a separate page for each employer's role
Screen in front of the rate
The published budget is visible before applying
Listings
One listing per role in our feed
Who they say they will not hire
Publishes a no-hire list of 7 countries and regions, checked 2026-09-12.

What Braintrust says, in its own pages

Getting paid
Through a processor such as Stripe or Wise. On hourly contracts you invoice through Braintrust and payment starts within 30 days, or later if the client has not paid. Its AI training page says gig tasks are paid weekly. usebraintrust.com/site-service-fees-terms, usebraintrust.com/ai-training
Before your first paid task
A profile and a short AI interview, usually under an hour, then ID verification and skills validation. Certification takes 1 to 2 days, and matching starts after it. usebraintrust.com/for-talent
How much work
No guaranteed minimum or regular pay. Its terms say Braintrust does not introduce talent to clients or find projects for them. usebraintrust.com/talent-terms, usebraintrust.com/terms
Contract
Independent contractor. Each project is a contract directly between you and the client, under terms with Freelance Labs, Inc. usebraintrust.com/talent-terms, usebraintrust.com/terms

Read on the pages linked above on 23 Sep 2026. Platforms change these terms, so check the linked page before you rely on one.

What people say about Braintrust

Complained about most

  • ▲ “they do not send your application until you do not complete a lengthy screening process” trustpilot.com (2025-08-24)

Gathered by hand on 2026-09-12 from the linked pages. Ratings are other sites' scores, quoted with their counts and scope. A figure a company states about itself is marked as a claim. Nothing here enters our pay figures, rankings or alerts.

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What it hires for

Where its roles are open

Where Braintrust says it cannot hire

For the purposes of the Terms, "Restricted Territory" means Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria

www.usebraintrust.com, read 2026-09-12

The 7 they name

Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Crimea, Donetsk People's Republic, Luhansk People's Republic

The terms publish platform restrictions. Each employer also sets its own location requirements. Syria appears in the platform's own policy, separately from any legal floor. source

Geography & eligibility

Checked 2026-09-12: country restrictions vary by job. The platform also publishes restricted territories in its terms

The honest read

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

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Live roles on Braintrust (top 30 by pay)

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