The highest-paying AI training platforms reserve their best rates for domain experts: coders, lawyers, doctors, linguists, and STEM postgraduates. Pay in these tiers commonly reaches $15–40 per hour and above, sometimes several times the generalist rate on the same platform. This collection gathers the platforms where an expert qualification measurably changes what you earn.
Across the AI-training platforms we track, 21 maintain a distinct expert tier — qualification usually means a degree check plus a domain test.
Expert network that pays credentialed professionals to train, evaluate and improve frontier AI models through project-based contract work…
Role bands on the public jobs board run $90-$300/hour (top listed: $300/hr Clinical Reasoning Physician; entry bands $90-$120); job-board ads state $30-$300/hr.
at an hourly or project rate · min payout Not published - payment method, schedule and any threshold are not disclosed…
Expert network that pays credentialed professionals to train, evaluate and improve frontier AI models through project-based contract work…
Role bands on the public jobs board run $90-$300/hour (top listed: $300/hr Clinical Reasoning Physician; entry bands $90-$120); job-board ads state $30-$300/hr.
at an hourly or project rate · min payout Not published - payment method, schedule and any threshold are not disclosed…
AfterQuery pays credentialed professionals to evaluate and improve frontier AI models.
$35-$250/hr by expertise tier; each project posts its rate up front
at an hourly or project rate · min payout No minimum - pay periods run Monday-Sunday PT, paid every Friday by 11:59 p.m.
AI-powered talent marketplace that matches vetted professionals (engineers, lawyers, doctors, consultants) with AI training and evaluation…
Median listed rate $75/hr (middle half $50-$100) per independent tracking of 1,402 open listings; Mercor's own site cites a $108/hr average contracted rate
at an hourly or project rate · min payout No minimum payout threshold is published
Sovrano AI connects evaluators with paid projects that assess and improve AI models.
Rate not published — see the full review
per task
Expert marketplace connecting verified professionals with paid work from market research companies and human-data or AI companies.
Track pages advertise "per hour worked" rates of $24 (Healthcare Ops, US), $28 (Accounting, US), $32 (Finance, US
per study or session · min payout $12.50 minimum cash-out and a $10,000 maximum per day (Payout Policy and…
Aligned (also branded Aligned Labs) is a San Francisco freelance expert network whose members are paid to create and judge data that…
Experts set their own hourly rate and are paid on hours worked (Stripe, every two weeks); no public rate card - the app's internal default is $15.00/hr
at an hourly or project rate · min payout Not published - the FAQ states no minimum hour requirements and no payout…
AI training contributor network powered by Labelbox.
Advertised $80/hr average pay with $1M paid weekly per the official homepage; live job listings range $30–$120/hr (e.g., $30–35/hr Korean language expert
at an hourly or project rate · min payout No minimum payout is published on the public site
Arabic-first AI and data solutions company that recruits individual remote contractors for AI evaluation, bilingual annotation (Castilian…
No hourly rates are published; every evaluator role is titled "Remote, Hourly Contractor" with project-based, flexible hours
at an hourly or project rate
Contributor platform for AI training and data work, with projects matched to professional expertise in fields such as coding, engineering…
Advertised top hourly pay of $100+/hr (based on location and skills), with per-domain caps: up to $450/hr medical clinicians, $400/hr legal experts
at an hourly or project rate · min payout No fixed minimum payout is published
Julius Expert Earners is a paid contributor program run directly by Julius AI Inc.
“Every task pays a $100 baseline, with reward milestones on top”; company-quoted average ~$200/hour; tasks take 15 minutes to a couple of hours
per task · min payout Not published - experts are independent contractors 'paid by direct deposit'
Meridial is an expert contractor marketplace powered by Invisible Technologies.
Rates are set per project and 'determined by experience and expertise'
at an hourly or project rate · min payout No minimum payout threshold is published
Scale AI-operated contributor platform that connects freelance experts with projects involving AI training and human feedback.
General projects ~$15–40/hr; specialist domains higher
per task · min payout No minimum payout threshold is stated on the official FAQ
Crowd-Cast is a paid data-collection program from p(doom), a small AGI research lab in Munich (pdoom UG, Volkartstr.
A fixed monthly purchase price for accepted recordings rather than a wage: up to $1,000/month for PhD-level research and professional engineering
monthly for passive device data · min payout No minimum stated - accrual is monthly pro rata and payment is made by bank…
Expert network for AI training and evaluation.
Rate not published — see the full review
at an hourly or project rate
Pasiflora AI connects credentialed domain experts with AI training, evaluation, validation, generation, and red-team work.
Every role listing on the careers page states 'Rate set per project'
at an hourly or project rate · min payout No minimum payout is published; the Terms state fees are clearly defined in…
Talent platform for software engineers based in Latin America (Revelo Talent Corp, Miami; founder-CEO Lucas Mendes; operating since ~2015)…
Full-time placements up to US$95,000/yr (by role: $74k-$91k); AI training paid hourly/per-task in USD (figure not published)
at an hourly or project rate · min payout No minimum payout threshold applies in the usual sense
RustLabs Experts connects professionals with paid AI training and evaluation projects in software engineering, finance, accounting, machine…
Advertised $20-100+ per hour, set by field and depth of expertise.
at an hourly or project rate · min payout No minimum payout is published on the official site
Worker portal of iMerit Inc., a San Jose, CA AI-data company founded in 2012 by Radha Basu and acquired by EXL in August 2026; the Scholars…
Not published — hourly per contract (rate shown on each offer) or per task/invoice on the unit-paid track; the homepage claims $10M+ paid to Scholars
at an hourly or project rate · min payout No fixed figure — invoices wait at "Waiting for minimum amount" until the…
SME Careers is SuperAnnotate's credentialed expert talent network for AI training, backed by NVIDIA Ventures, Databricks Ventures, and Dell…
Rate not published — see the full review
at an hourly or project rate
Snorkel AI's Expert Community is the company's contributor network for AI training, data labeling, and evaluation.
Per-project rates set by expertise and complexity; official FAQ: 'Top experts earn $3,000+ per week'
at an hourly or project rate · min payout No minimum payout threshold is published
AGI infrastructure company that recruits individual domain experts (Finance, Medical, Science, Software, Language) for AI training…
Rate not published — see the full review
at an hourly or project rate
Verita AI (Verita Artificial Intelligence Corporation, San Francisco) contracts individual subject-matter experts to design AI evaluations…
Posted engagements 2026-10-15: $30/hr Coding & QC, $50/hr movement-science annotator, $60/hr software-engineering task specialist and sleep specialist
at an hourly or project rate · min payout Not published - engagements pay weekly with 'first payout the following Friday'…
Vetto AI connects scientists, engineers, medical professionals, analysts, educators, and other domain experts with AI development projects.
R$200–R$1,500 (advertised as US$40–$300) per deliverable, varying by project complexity and expertise area
per task · min payout No minimum payout is published; the official FAQ says payment is per completed…
23 platforms carry this filter across the directory, re-verified monthly.
Every platform page carries its own last-verified date. This list reflects data last swept 2026-11-09.
We checked each platform's official signup, payout, and policy pages — and link to every source on the platform page.
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