Ranked by measured pay
The highest-paying AI training platforms right now
Not a listicle of self-reported maximums. This ranks the platforms by the median hourly rate their open roles actually advertise, measured from each platform’s live job feed and refreshed every hour. Want to model your own number instead? Estimate your rate in the pay explorer.
- Amazon Mechanical Turk
- AfterQuery
- Aligned Labs
- Alignerr
- Anyone AI
- Appen
- Babel Audio
- Braintrust
- Claru
- DataAnnotation
- Deccan AI (Soul AI)
- Edison Scientific
- Elsevier Health
- Fleet AI
- Handshake AI
- Headway
- iMerit
- Innodata
- Invisible
- Inworld AI
- Kastle
- Lifted (Upwork)
- Mercor
- micro1
- Mindrift
- Neevo
- OneForma
- OpenTrain AI
- Outlier (Scale AI)
- Pareto AI
- Pasiflora AI
- Pila8
- PointClickCare
- Prolific
- RealTrainAI
- RemoExperts
- Remotasks
- Rise Data Labs
- rustLabs
- RWS TrainAI Community
- Sovrano AI
- SuperAnnotate (SME)
- Surge AI
- TELUS Digital AI
- Terac
- Toloka
- Trellis
- Turing
- Uber AI Solutions
- Vals AI
- Vetto
- Volga Partners
- Weekday
- Welo Data
- xAI (SpaceXAI)
The ranking (compiled)
Compiled hourly pay
A ranking appears here once enough platforms' feeds state hourly rates to make a market. Until then, each platform shows its compiled benchmark, labeled as such. Ordered by what applying is worth, lifted by a referral boost for the platforms that pay us a referral fee; it never changes what a platform pays you.
Amazon Mechanical Turk~$2–$3/hr effective (2018 study); closedMicrotask crowd
AfterQuery$15–$175/hr; middle half $50–$104/hrExpert network
Aligned Labs$40-$150/hr (self-set; top experts $150+)Expert network
Alignerr$10–$200/hr (German voice actors to $280/hr)Expert network
Anyone AI$7-$150/hr (most roles $40-$80)Expert network
Appen$2.40–$100/hr; CrowdGen experts up to $450/hrMicrotask crowd
Babel Audio$17.50-$150/hrMicrotask crowd
Braintrust$20–$200/hrExpert network
Claru$3-$15/hr video capture; $15-$100/hr gaming and expert evaluationExpert network
DataAnnotation$25–$150+/hr; generalists $25–$50/hrExpert network
Deccan AI (Soul AI)~$10-$700/hr by its founder's account; rates set per projectExpert network
Edison ScientificAbout $100/hr on average (paid per deliverable)Expert network
Elsevier Health$55-$80/hrExpert network
Fleet AI$150–$200/hr on its contract engagement (legal, US only)Expert network
Handshake AI$15–$150/hr; physicians and surgeons to $300/hrExpert network
Headway$125/hrExpert network
iMerit$2.50–$40/hr by country and language; clinical experts $120/hrMicrotask crowd
Innodata$10–$30/hr (specialists up to $75/hr)Microtask crowd
Invisible$5–$65/hr; legal and engineering specialists to $200/hrExpert network
Inworld AI$20-$55/hrExpert network
Kastle$30/hrExpert network
Lifted (Upwork)$10–$110/hr (transcription $10–$35, senior engineering $80–$110)Expert network
Mercor$63–$90/hr median listing; experts to $450/hrExpert network
micro1$50–$90/hr median post; senior legal and research experts to $400/hrExpert network
Mindrift$15–$100+/hrExpert network
Neevo~$10-15/hr average (Neevo's own figure)Microtask crowd
OneFormaUp to $150/hr (US physicians); most projects show their rate when you applyMicrotask crowd
OpenTrain AI$6–$50/hr on its own postings (top $60)Expert network
Outlier (Scale AI)Up to $7–$50/hr; ML, EE and quant finance up to $150/hrExpert network
Pareto AIUnpublished; past postings $40-$100 per approved hourExpert network
Pasiflora AI$35-$250/hr by domain (open roles from $10/hr)Expert network
Pila8$10-$50/hr (estimated)Microtask crowd
PointClickCare$37.50-$40.40/hrExpert network
Prolific$8–$216+/hrResearch studies
RealTrainAI$15-$200+/hr (industry-reported, not its own rate)Expert network
RemoExperts$10-$150/hrExpert network
RemotasksPer task in its app; posted projects $9–$17/hrMicrotask crowd
Rise Data Labs$15–$50/hr (healthcare, legal and finance experts $50–$150/hr, accounting and QuickBooks experts $150+/hr)Expert network
rustLabs$20-100+/hrExpert network
RWS TrainAI Community$4–$36/hr, set by role and country (most $4–$24)Microtask crowd
Sovrano AI$40-125/hr expert AI trainer roles; up to €100-180/hr expert waitlists (by field); $35-49/hr domain audits; $500 per approved caseExpert network
SuperAnnotate (SME)$15–$150/hr by domain and geographyExpert network
Surge AI$55–$400/hr; expert openings $200–$400/hrExpert network
TELUS Digital AI$18–$50/hr experts; linguists and evaluators $3.50–$25/hrMicrotask crowd
Terac$40–$350/hr expert; per task to $750; studies $1–$315Expert network
TolokaVia Mindrift: $15–$100+/hr; all-access tasks under $20/hrMicrotask crowd
Trellis$20-$30/hrExpert network
Turing$15–$200/hr; raters $15–$30/hrExpert network
Uber AI SolutionsPer task, shown upfront; its US freelance postings $15 to $130/hrMicrotask crowd
Vals AI$100-$150/hrExpert network
Vetto$20-$60 per approved task (about $45-$75/hr); $50-$100/hr on hourly rolesExpert network
Volga Partners$35–$60/hr in the US (healthcare students and trainees $15–$35/hr)Expert network
Weekday$60–$160/hr (radiology up to $400/hr; some from $15)Expert network
Welo Data$4–$55/hr by country; voice session directors to $80/hrExpert network
xAI (SpaceXAI)$35–$100/hr (US)Expert network
Compiled from public sources as of the last verification. How we compile pay.
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Highest-paying AI training platforms: common questions
What are the highest-paying AI training platforms?
The highest rates go to expert networks that hire for specialized work: formal reasoning, advanced coding, and PhD-level domain review reach $700/hr, while accessible microtask crowds priced by geography sit at the other end from about $2/hr on the compiled rate cards. This page ranks every platform by pay, read every hour from live job feeds.
How is the pay measured?
Where a platform's live feed states hourly rates, the ranking uses its expected pay, from the rates its open roles actually advertise, read every hour. Where it does not, a compiled benchmark is shown and labeled as such. Rates advertised only as a maximum are excluded, and per-task platforms are not ranked against an hourly wage.
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