The fastest-growing paid-task category: labeling, evaluation, and expert-domain work that trains AI models — verified rates and qualification requirements for each platform.
Editor's pick · refreshed November 2026
Hand-picked on pay, transparency, and reliability — never paid placements.
Kuro pays for passive data sharing — billed at an hourly or project rate, paid via Tremendous and Gift card or voucher. $1 per accepted hour of screen recording, with acceptance criteria unpublished
Per hourly or project rate. $10-$250/hr by expertise tier; each project posts its rate up front
AI-powered talent network that connects domain experts (software engineers, finance, healthcare, legal, etc.) with paid AI training platforms.
110 platforms listed, including 2 that cover ai training & data labeling as a secondary category.
Lightweight Windows and macOS desktop app that pays you to let it record your screen, computer inputs and metadata while you use the…
TIERED since mid-October 2026: Basic $0.10 ('New participants start on Basic'), Apprentice $0.25, Advanced $0.50, Pro $1.00 USD per eligible active hour
at an hourly or project rate · min payout None - 'There is no minimum withdrawal amount and no payout fee'; payments
AI training and data annotation vendor whose public Expert Hub (experts.risedatalabs.com) recruits remote domain experts and multilingual…
Hourly per role, wide spread - live listings ran from $5-$10/hr for entry image annotation, $15-$45 for coding and language roles
at an hourly or project rate · min payout None - 'Weekly payouts, no minimums' per the official hub FAQ
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
RWS's TrainAI Community is the contributor platform of RWS (including RWS Moravia) — a 250,000-member community across 193 countries and…
Paid per completed task; payments vary by project based on the time required and are communicated in advance — no public rate sheet
at an hourly or project rate · min payout No minimum payout threshold is published
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…
Collaborate is the public contributor portal of Shaip, a Louisville, Kentucky-founded AI training-data company that in February 2026 became…
Per approved task, project-by-project: tracked October 2026 openings concentrate on Indian-language voice work at Rs 200-500/hour
per task · min payout Not published - the portal claims 'Weekly payouts' and 'transparent rates'
Shift (joinshift.org) is an egocentric-video data platform operated by Shift App US LLC, a Delaware LLC based in New York (DPO Harry…
'Earn up to $20/hr with Shift' (2026-07-30 blog) - a ceiling, not a rate card; the homepage worked example is 5 hours recorded, 4 accepted, $120.
at an hourly or project rate · min payout Not published - the terms commit to weekly wire payments 'through Shift's…
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
Contributor network of a Danish B2B speech-data company, Spire Light ApS (CVR/VAT 44262509, Ingrid Marievej 49, 2500 Valby, Denmark - VAT…
Not published - 'This page does not quote a current pay range'; the only figure on the site is an illustrative 'a batch pays $6 if accepted'.
per task · min payout Not published - payment runs per Order through unnamed third-party processors
Spout connects people for paid voice conversations and recordings that can be used to train, fine-tune, evaluate, or benchmark AI systems.
Each project shows its pay rate in-product before you begin, paid per approved recording, per approved review, or per qualifying conversation
per study or session · min payout No minimum is published — any minimum balance required before a payout and the…
Expert contributor network for AI training.
Advertised base rate of $25 an hour, with earnings varying by project type, your efficiency, and hours worked
at an hourly or project rate · min payout No minimum payout threshold is published
Superposition Lab (lab.superposition.ai) is an invitation-only contractor portal where contributors record gameplay or professional…
No public rate card - 'Each approved task earns the fee the project terms set'
per task · min payout US$40 ('currently') - paid every Thursday by local bank transfer through…
Remote micro-work platform that trains people to tag recorded sports footage: after a two-minute application (no CV), online training, a…
Task rates are not published publicly; they are shown inside your account after onboarding
per task · min payout No minimum payout is published; you request a payout and TalaTask sends it to…
Contributor network for structured first-person 'Physical AI' data operated by TaskAlpha Pte.
USD 6.00-8.00 per 'Approved Hour' of accepted video on Project Pulsar, tiered by workplace category (data centres, labs and biopharma at the top
per audio/video minute · min payout USD 10 (Pulsar): invoices run on a two-week cut-off cycle with transfer to the…
Paid micro-task marketplace connecting individuals (called 'Taskers') to a variety of AI-related tasks — data labeling, voice recording…
Pay is per completed and approved task and varies by project; TaskUs's official TaskVerse Instagram has advertised projects such as Project Motion at $45…
per task · min payout No minimum payout threshold is published
TELUS International AI (formerly Lionbridge AI / TELUS Digital) is an AI data solutions provider that hires individual contributors for AI…
No public rate sheet; rates are set per project and stated in each contributor's contract for services (the privacy notice lists 'Contract Service Rates' among…
at an hourly or project rate · min payout No minimum payout threshold is published
Managed sports-video computer-vision annotation agency in Dhaka, Bangladesh - self-described as 'a managed annotation team, not a software…
Not published - no numeric rate exists anywhere (checked 2026-11-05); the only verbatim rules are 'Rates are agreed before you begin, based on the sport
at a project rate · min payout Not published - no payment method, schedule
TrainThemAI pays people to film everyday household work in first person so robotics teams can train embodied-AI models on the footage.
USD 6 per approved hour advertised on the apply page, with recruiter posts quoting $5/hr for household tasks and $6/hr commercial
per audio/video minute · min payout Not published - no minimum, fee or network-fee language exists on any public…
AI-training vertical of Truelancer, the Indian-origin freelancing marketplace, recruiting workers to annotate data, rate and write model…
$3-15/hr on live parent-marketplace AI-annotation listings (checked 2026-10-26), with Truelancer's own blog benchmarking data labeling at $5-15/hr
per task · min payout No minimum is published - the fee schedule lists withdrawal charges only (India…
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
Uber AI Solutions recruits individual US-based contractors to evaluate AI-generated content (code, STEM, finance, multilingual, etc.) and…
Pay for each task is shown up front in the task board before you accept it; Uber does not publish dollar rates on its public site.
at an hourly or project rate · min payout No minimum payout threshold is published
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…
Paid contributor marketplace for video and multimedia AI data, operated by Visora Data, Inc.
Published per job on the live board (api.visora.com/public/jobs, 23 listings): First-Person Task Recording $1-$20 per recorded hour (912 joined)
at an hourly or project rate · min payout $20 - 'You receive earnings when either your pending balance reaches $20
VoiceData (joinvoicedata.com) is the first-party voice-data collection arm of Patientdesk AI, Inc.
'Pay depends on the task and accepted work' with per-task rates shown before you start
per task · min payout Not published as a value - product strings prove a threshold exists in-app…
AI training data services company that hires individual contributors for data annotation, AI evaluation, and multilingual data collection.
Not published on the official site; third-party listings and reports put US rater roles around $14-$20+/hour (one 2026 listing advertised $20.30/hour)
at an hourly or project rate · min payout No minimum payout is published; the official FAQ says contributors are 'paid…
Operated by Workada, LLC, a Delaware LLC based in San Francisco (no founding year published; the domain was registered May 2025 and its…
Hourly rates published per role: Data Labeling $17/hr; Footage Logger $28-30+/hr; AI Reasoning Analyst $50/hr
at an hourly or project rate · min payout Not published — pay is sent three times a week through Stripe straight to your…
Clickworker takes beginners at microtask rates; Outlier pays expert-tier rates but gates entry with degree checks.
Read full comparison →AI training work pays people to improve machine-learning models: rating model responses, labeling images, writing and evaluating prompts, transcribing audio, and reviewing code. Demand has exploded, and so has the spread between the best and worst platforms — generalist microtasks pay a few dollars an hour while expert-domain projects (law, medicine, advanced coding) pay $15–40+/hr, sometimes on the same platform.
Every AI-training platform we list goes through the same verification discipline as every other category: pay models, qualification gates, identity requirements, payout methods, and country availability, checked against official contributor pages and terms. Where a platform hides its rates, we say so.
Before you apply, understand the two-tier structure. Generalist tiers accept most applicants and pay per task; expert tiers gate entry behind degree verification and domain tests but pay multiples more. The application-process row on each platform page tells you which you are walking into.
Expert tiers usually require at least an associate degree, with bachelor or higher for specialist domains. Generalist microtask tiers require no degree. Each platform page states the verified requirement.
Generalist work typically pays a few dollars per task; expert-domain projects pay $15–40+/hr. Across the 48 platforms we track, median expert-tier rates land in the $15–25/hr band.
Annotation labels raw data (images, text, audio); evaluation scores and ranks existing AI outputs. Evaluation work — especially prompt evaluation — is currently the most widely available expert-tier task.
Most expert-tier platforms verify government ID (often via third-party services like Persona or Onfido) plus tax information. Generalist platforms may only require email verification. Identity requirements are listed per platform.
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