AI training data vendors, pricing and worker pay

Name: AI training data vendors, pricing and worker pay
Creator: Blomega
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

49 records, built 2026-09-22. Machine-readable: JSON and JSON-LD.

Name	Category	Buyer price	Worker pay (vendor)	Worker pay (reported)	Status	Grade	Source
AfterQuery	rlhf-expert	not established	not established	not established	operating	A	source
Alignerr (Labelbox)	rlhf-expert	undisclosed	$80 per-hour	community-reported range widens to $15-$60/hr with an average around $37/hr; voice work billed Per Finished Hour 'about $9 per real hour ...	operating	A	source
Amazon Mechanical Turk	crowd-platform	not established	not established	not established	shutting down	B	source
Appen	crowd-platform	undisclosed	undisclosed	median US$1.50/hr paid work (mean 2.65, 298 observations); median US$1.11/hr paid and unpaid work (mean 1.95)	operating	A	source
Calliope Networks	licensed-corpora	undisclosed	undisclosed	not established	acquired	A	source
Centaur.ai	annotation	undisclosed	undisclosed	not established	operating	A	source
CloudFactory	annotation	undisclosed	undisclosed	not established	operating	A	source
Created by Humans	licensed-corpora	undisclosed	undisclosed	not established	operating	A	source
Dappier	broker	undisclosed	undisclosed	not established	operating	A	source
DataAnnotation	rlhf-expert	undisclosed	$20 per-hour	'based on 127 salaries submitted' (AI Trainer, band $60,499-$111,669/yr); Remote AI Trainer '$112,134 per year or $54 per hour' (glassdoo...	operating	A	source
Deeptune	rl-environments	not established	$75 to $120 per-hour	not established	acquired	B	source
Defined.ai	licensed-corpora	undisclosed	undisclosed	not established	operating	A	source
Encord	robotics-data	undisclosed	undisclosed	not established	operating	A	source
Handshake AI	rlhf-expert	undisclosed	not established	not established	operating	A	source
Human Native AI	broker	undisclosed	undisclosed	not established	acquired	A	source
iMerit	annotation	quote only	undisclosed	$35/hour	acquired	A	source
Innodata	annotation	undisclosed	undisclosed	not established	operating	A	source
Invisible Technologies	rlhf-expert	undisclosed	not established	$8–$65/hour	operating	A	source
Labelbox	annotation	undisclosed	$80 per-hour	not established	operating	A	source
LXT	annotation	quote only	undisclosed	not established	operating	A	source
Mecka AI	robotics-data	not established	not established	not established	operating	B	source
Mercor	rlhf-expert	undisclosed	$80 to $200 per-hour	$16 an hour (Nova), down from $21/hr (Musen); some contractors previously earned as much as $60 an hour on other projects	operating	A	source
Micro1	rlhf-expert	undisclosed	not established	$245–$280/hour	operating	A	source
Musical AI	broker	not established	undisclosed	not established	operating	A	source
Narrativ	broker	undisclosed	undisclosed	not established	unverified	A	source
Objectways	robotics-data	undisclosed	undisclosed	not established	operating	A	source
OpenTrain AI	broker	undisclosed	not established	not established	operating	B	source
Outlier (Scale AI)	rlhf-expert	undisclosed	undisclosed	$60,499 (25th percentile) - $111,669 (75th percentile) annually, 'based on 118 salaries submitted'; Trainer title: '$37 per hour' (13 sal...	operating	A	source
Pareto AI	rlhf-expert	undisclosed	$80 to $105 per-hour	not established	operating	A	source
Prolific	crowd-platform	not established	not established	median US$4.55/hr paid work (mean 5.45, 450 observations); median US$3.56/hr paid and unpaid (mean 4.26, 446 observations)	operating	A	source
Protege	licensed-corpora	quote only	undisclosed	not established	operating	A	source
Remotasks (Scale AI)	crowd-platform	undisclosed	undisclosed	Fairwork Cloudwork score 2/10; no Fair Pay points (threshold 1.1 paid on time for all work, and 1.2 paid at least local minimum wage, not...	operating	A	source
Rightsify / Global Copyright Exchange (GCX)	licensed-corpora	undisclosed	undisclosed	not established	operating	A	source
Ropedia	robotics-data	not established	not established	not established	operating	B	source
Sama	annotation	quote only	undisclosed	take-home wage of between around $1.32 and $2 per hour depending on seniority and performance	pivoted	A	source
Scale AI	annotation	undisclosed	not established	$15–$40/hour	operating	A	source
Snorkel AI	rlhf-expert	quote only	undisclosed	not established	operating	A	source
SuperAnnotate	annotation	quote only	undisclosed	not established	operating	A	source
Sureel AI	broker	undisclosed	undisclosed	not established	acquired	A	source
Surge AI	rlhf-expert	undisclosed	undisclosed	The workers I spoke with earned between $15 and $30 per hour	operating	B	source
TELUS Digital	annotation	quote only	undisclosed	'based on 17 salaries submitted by TELUS Digital AI rater professionals' (band $92,030-$155,689/yr); AI Search Rater 'estimated total pay...	operating	A	source
Toloka	crowd-platform	quote only	not established	$1.78/hour average (median $1/hour)	operating	A	source
Troveo AI	licensed-corpora	undisclosed	undisclosed	not established	operating	B	source
Truelabel	robotics-data	undisclosed	$25 to $60 per-hour	$18–$24 per approved hour of footage	operating	A	source
Turing	rlhf-expert	undisclosed	not established	$25–$35/hour for LLM Trainer (10 salaries submitted)	operating	A	source
Uber AI Solutions	annotation	not established	not established	not established	operating	A	source
vAIsual	licensed-corpora	quote only	undisclosed	not established	operating	B	source
Vermillio	broker	not established	undisclosed	not established	operating	B	source
XDOF	robotics-data	undisclosed	undisclosed	not established	operating	B	source

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