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Alignerr
Alignerr (the talent arm of Labelbox, a San Francisco data company that raised a Series E in October 2026) has workers author the tasks and evaluations models train on, in domains from software and finance to physics and formal proofs. Its public job feed is one of the largest live sources of AI-training roles in the market.
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Is Alignerr legit?
Researched Nov 2026 · 20 sourcesYes. Alignerr is the expert network of Labelbox, a San Francisco AI data company that raised over $100 million in October 2026, and it pays weekly through Stripe or PayPal. On per-task projects only accepted work is paid, and workers report unreviewed tasks, sudden removals and deactivations that left completed work unpaid, with support that rarely answers. It pays $10–$200/hr (German voice actors to $280/hr) (platform-stated).
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Alignerr is powered by Labelbox, a San Francisco AI data company founded in 2018 and led by co-founder and CEO Manu Sharma; its experts work inside Labelbox's labeling platform. Labelbox raised $110 million in a SoftBank-led Series D in January 2022 and announced over $100 million in Series E financing on October 14, 2026, saying it turned profitable in 2026. In February 2026 it said Alignerr had over 1 million domain experts.
Each Monday-to-Sunday week is paid by the following Friday through the one provider Alignerr enables in your country (Stripe or PayPal; Upwork hires are paid by Upwork), and Stripe holds the first payout 7 days. Projects pay per hour, per task or per turn; on per-task work only tasks that pass review and are accepted are paid.
Trustpilot 4.5/5 (3,069 reviews). Read November 2026.
Global, remote-first; roles region-targeted (US, UK, EU, Australia, Singapore, Brazil, Philippines).
As of 6 November 2026 no Alignerr-specific impersonation cases turned up. Real applications start at app.alignerr.com, support is support@alignerr.com, and payouts are connected only after you are assigned to a project, through Stripe or PayPal. Fake recruiters usually start on text, WhatsApp or Telegram and later ask you to pay; never pay to get a job.
What people praise
- Recent reviewers often praise the Zara AI interview as natural and tailored to their background.
- Some workers on Reddit report steady pay, including earnings in the thousands and weeks of payments on time.
- Rates are posted per role: on 6 November 2026 the six roles shown on Alignerr's homepage listed pay from $15 to $20 an hour up to $40 to $120 an hour.
What people complain about
- Unreviewed work earns nothing: Annotation Academy found 25 Reddit accounts in 18 threads (2024-2026) describing unpaid or never-reviewed tasks.
- Reviewers say accounts were removed or deactivated, sometimes right after ID verification, with no reason given.
- Many say they waited weeks or months after onboarding without a single project.
- The Better Business Bureau rates Alignerr F (not accredited), with 9 complaints in the last 3 years, 5 of them in the last 12 months (read 6 November 2026).
What has gone wrong
- October 2026. Trustpilot reviewers in September and October 2026 said cancelled or rejected work went unpaid or was paid only in part: one says Alignerr owes $2,250 after a project was cancelled, another about $9,000 for 91 hours after his account was removed, and others say support stopped answering. Alignerr has replied to none of its negative Trustpilot reviews.
- October 2026. By 12 October 2026 Alignerr's FAQ page said that if its Trust & Safety team deactivates an account and the appeal is rejected, completed work is not paid, and that with no 'Submit Appeal' option the decision is final; its 29 July 2026 copy (Internet Archive) did not. An older answer there still says all completed work is paid except in extreme fraud.
- May 2026. Workers on a paused Alignerr project published an open letter in May 2026 about tasks that were never reviewed or paid. Its author later edited the post to say the tasks were reviewed and paid once workers organised; Annotation Academy calls it one documented case, not a reliable remedy.
- August 2025. Business Insider reported in August 2025 that contractors hired through Alignerr and Outlier to review chats with Meta's AI often saw users' unredacted personal data, including names, phone numbers, email addresses, selfies and explicit photos.
Best for: Specialists with degrees or professional experience (coding, STEM, finance, languages) who want weekly-paid project work and can ride out gaps between projects. Not for: Anyone who needs steady hours, or who cannot afford to lose pay when per-task work is rejected or never reviewed.
Honest catches
- Pay here is platform-stated, not measured live from a job feed, so treat it as a benchmark rather than a guaranteed rate.
Sources for this review
- Alignerr Help Center: What is Alignerr?
- Alignerr Help Center: What is Labelbox?
- Labelbox: About (founded 2018, San Francisco)
- Labelbox: Announcing our Series D (January 6, 2022)
- PR Newswire: Labelbox raises $100 Million+ in Series E funding (October 14, 2026)
- PR Newswire: Labelbox acquires Upcraft to scale Alignerr (February 10, 2026)
- Alignerr Help Center: Alignerr Payment FAQs
- Alignerr Help Center: When do I get paid?
- Alignerr Help Center: How to Set up Payments?
- Alignerr homepage (read November 6, 2026)
- Alignerr FAQs (read November 6, 2026)
- Internet Archive: Alignerr FAQs, copy of October 12, 2026
- Internet Archive: Alignerr FAQs, copy of July 29, 2026
- Trustpilot: Alignerr reviews
- Trustpilot: Alignerr 1-star reviews
- Trustpilot: Alignerr 1-star reviews, page 2
- Annotation Academy: Is Alignerr Legit? (3,988 Reddit comments, updated November 2, 2026)
- Better Business Bureau: Alignerr profile and complaints (read November 6, 2026)
- Fortune: Meta contractors say they can see Facebook users sharing private information with their AI chatbots (August 6, 2025)
- FTC Consumer Alert: That job offer text is probably a scam (April 30, 2026)
Watch: Is Alignerr Legit? What It Pays and What Goes Wrong (Nov 2026)
1:21 · figures as of 2 Nov 2026Alignerr's own help center, Labelbox's announcements and its reviews, read on 2 Nov 2026: who is behind it, what its roles pay, when work is not paid, and what its one-star reviewers say went wrong.
Is Alignerr Legit? What It Pays and What Goes Wrong (Nov 2026)
What Alignerr pays
Platform-stated · as of 2026-11-06Researched rate card, platform-stated, as of 2026-11-06
Per-role hourly ranges come straight from Alignerr's own public jobs feed, read in full on 6 Nov 2026 (5,504 rows, 5,281 distinct open roles, every one stating an hourly range): the middle role runs $35 to $80 an hour (median low and high ends). By field, as the feed states them: software engineering mostly $20–$100, finance $35–$120, accounting $35–$70, math $75–$90, medicine $40–$80, physics, chemistry and biology $35–$80, marketing $35–$70, customer support $20–$50, transcription $10–$35; formal-proof (Lean 4) roles $170–$200; and voice acting mostly $120–$200 by language, German $250–$280, the highest band. The $200–$400 Machine Learning Evaluation Specialist band this card cited on 31 Oct 2026 is no longer in the feed. Alignerr's homepage labels $80/hr 'Average pay' (read 6 Nov 2026): that is the top of the middle role's range, so read it as a ceiling, not the typical rate.
| Role | Kind of work | Researched pay |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer task author | Coding | $20–$100/hr |
| Finance & accounting expert | Domain Experts | $35–$120/hr |
| STEM / formal-proof math | Math & STEM | $35–$200/hr |
| Voice actor (by language) | Transcription & Audio | $120–$280/hr |
| Marketing / support task author | Writing | $20–$70/hr |
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How to get started on Alignerr
Researched Nov 2026Sign in at app.alignerr.com with Google, let your resume fill in your profile, apply to roles that fit your expertise (some add a skills assessment, a voice sample or a Zara AI video interview), verify your ID with Persona when Alignerr asks (its own pages disagree on whether that is around the time you apply or only once you are matched to a project), then accept the contract, connect Stripe or PayPal and join the project's Discord; approved work is paid every week.
Who can join
- A Google account (you sign in with Google), your resume, your LinkedIn profile and a phone number. Onboarding works on a computer (Chrome recommended) or a phone.
- A laptop or desktop with a working webcam for the Zara AI interview. Phones and tablets cause technical issues, and an interview with the camera disabled is marked Failed.
- Living where Alignerr operates. For legal, regulatory and security reasons access is limited in some countries, and people there see a 'Location Denied' message and cannot onboard. Alignerr does not publish the list.
- An ID for Persona verification: a driver's license, state ID, work permit or permanent residence card from an accepted country, photographed live, plus a recent selfie. Photos of photos are rejected.
- Real expertise. Alignerr describes its community as subject matter experts, with backgrounds such as master's degrees and PhDs, specialized industry experience or language expertise.
- A payout account with the one provider Alignerr enables in your identity-verification country, Stripe or PayPal. You cannot choose between them.
Step by step
- 1
Sign in with Google and build your profile
Sign up at app.alignerr.com with your Google account and upload your resume. Your profile is filled in from the resume and you can edit it. Have your LinkedIn profile and phone number ready.
- 2
Apply to roles that match your expertise
The separate Assessments tab has been removed, so apply for the jobs you want first. Only some roles require an assessment, which you start with the Continue button, and some also ask for a voice sample. 'Completed' means nothing more is needed; 'Applied' means steps may still be pending.
- 3
Do the Zara AI interview if it appears
If a Zara interview shows on your dashboard it is required. It is a live dialogue with Alignerr's AI interviewer, with questions unique to you; coding can include live exercises and language interviews are usually a conversation. Some people are also invited to a human interview to check native language skills. If you pass, you move to onboarding automatically.
- 4
Wait to be matched to a project
Projects are assigned based on availability and your interview performance. When a project is ready you get a Discord notification with the project details and pay rate, and you decide whether to accept it under 'Go to Projects' in the dashboard.
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Verify your identity with Persona
Alignerr's Process page (read 6 November 2026) asks every applicant, after applying for a job and before contract and billing setup, to verify a phone number by text message and then an ID through Persona: a live photo of the document, or one already saved with Persona. Its help center (updated 8 April 2026) says Persona comes only once you are matched with a project or a job application is accepted, so be ready either way. If you submitted the wrong ID, contact support to reset verification.
- 6
Accept the contract
Review and accept your contract from the onboarding checklist on the Alignerr home page, or under Settings, then Documents. US contractors paid through Deel fill in a W-9 during contract signing.
- 7
Connect your payout account
Payment setup opens only once you are officially assigned to a project. Connect Stripe (email, phone code, bank details and currency) or PayPal, whichever your country uses. Once connected, you cannot switch to a different Stripe account.
- 8
Work and get paid weekly
Each Monday-to-Sunday week is processed the next week and paid by the following Friday. Projects pay per hour, per task or per task per turn, at the rate active when you submit; on per-task projects only tasks that pass review and are accepted are paid.
Role assessments and the Zara AI interview
Alignerr screens inside each job application. Some roles ask for a skills assessment, some for a voice sample, and many show a Zara interview: a live dialogue with Alignerr's AI interviewer that checks your knowledge of the role's topic and helps place you on matching projects. If Zara appears on your dashboard it is required; some specializations skip it. Human interviews are used to assess native language proficiency and other skills. Passing moves you to onboarding automatically, and Alignerr gives no individual results, feedback or timelines.
Format
AI video interview on a laptop or desktop with the camera on and the browser in full screen throughout. Questions are unique to each person, so Alignerr publishes no question list or length; coding interviews can include live exercises. Retakes are granted only after technical problems in the first session, and you cannot request extra interviews.
How to prepare
- Use a laptop or desktop, test your camera and microphone, and make sure your connection is stable: Alignerr says mobile devices are not supported.
- Choose a quiet room with a neutral background and soft, even light on your face, and use headphones or a noise-cancelling microphone. Alignerr warns that background noise may be read as part of your answer.
- Do not talk over Zara: Alignerr says overlapping speech causes pauses that can affect your score. Speak at a steady pace and pause briefly after each answer.
- Work alone. AI tools, extra monitors and anyone helping you on camera are prohibited.
- Keep your resume specific to your real specialty: Alignerr picks people for human interviews based on the experience they shared at registration.
- If an NDA or personal limit stops you discussing past work, ask Zara to skip that question.
Why people get rejected
- Camera off or leaving full-screen mode: a disabled camera is marked Failed.
- Using outside help, an AI tool or a second monitor.
- Technical problems from taking the interview on a phone or tablet.
- Answers that do not follow a project's written guidelines. Some Trustpilot reviewers say answers that did follow them were still rejected and that support would not review assessments.
- Not actually a rejection: passing does not guarantee a project, and in Reddit reports reviewed by Annotation Academy one worker cleared screening but was never added to a project.
- Living in a country where Alignerr does not operate, which stops onboarding at a 'Location Denied' message.
Alignerr publishes no timeline. Its onboarding guide says the time it takes can vary, its interview FAQ says individual timelines will not be given, and it contacts you by email and adds you to a Discord channel when a new project is ready.
Each Monday-to-Sunday week of work is processed the next week and paid by the following Friday, through the one provider enabled for your country (Stripe or PayPal; people hired through Upwork are paid by Upwork). Projects pay per hour, per task or per task per turn, at the rate active when you submit. On per-task projects you are paid only for tasks that pass quality review and are accepted; completed tasks that are not accepted are not paid. Changing your payout method means redoing Persona verification.
Tips to get accepted
- Find out the pay rate before you start: rates are shown only after you are selected, usually on the project page or in its Discord channel, and a few projects in their evaluation phase are unpaid. If the rate is unclear, ask the project coordinator and wait.
- On per-task projects, treat unreviewed work as money at risk and see your first tasks accepted before doing many more: Annotation Academy's review of Reddit reports found that work that is never reviewed is never paid.
- If your account is deactivated, look for a 'Submit Appeal' option on your dashboard and use it: Alignerr's FAQ page (read 6 November 2026) says that without that option the decision is final, and that if its Trust & Safety team rejects your appeal, completed work is not paid.
- Expect Stripe to hold your first payment for 7 days; Alignerr support cannot shorten it.
- Set up Discord early and keep notifications on: project alerts, with details and pay rate, arrive there.
- Expect gaps. Alignerr says its work comes in waves, with periods of waiting followed by intense activity, while it waits on customers for new datasets.
- Verify with an ID from the country you will be paid in: payout options follow your identity-verification country, and adding another country needs re-verification with that country's documents.
What isn't public
- Alignerr does not publish the Zara interview's length, how it is scored, a pass mark or an acceptance rate, and it gives no individual results or feedback.
- It does not publish which countries it operates in, or which countries' ID documents Persona accepts.
- Alignerr's own pages disagree on when you verify your ID: its Process page and FAQ page (read 6 November 2026) put it before contract and billing setup for every applicant, its help center (updated 8 April 2026) only once you are matched to a project.
- There is no published timeline from application to first paid task.
- Which roles require an assessment, a voice sample or an AI interview is only shown once you apply.
- Pay rates are shown only after you are selected for a project, and Alignerr does not say how many projects have an unpaid evaluation phase or how long it lasts.
- Its help center says nothing about payout fees, minimum payouts or currency conversion.
- Glassdoor and Indeed blocked our reading of their Alignerr pages, so worker experience here comes from Trustpilot and Annotation Academy's review of Reddit threads, not our own reading of Reddit.
Sources (19)
- Alignerr Help Center: Alignerr Onboarding (April 8, 2026)
- Alignerr Help Center: How to take more assessments? (April 8, 2026)
- Alignerr Help Center: Alignerr Interview FAQs (April 10, 2026)
- Alignerr Help Center: AI interview, Getting Started!
- Alignerr Help Center: How do I start working on a project after onboarding?
- Alignerr Help Center: Why is the pay rate not visible?
- Alignerr Help Center: Persona Identity Verification FAQs (April 8, 2026)
- Alignerr Help Center: Contract Viewing and Accepting
- Alignerr Help Center: Tax information for U.S.-based users (February 12, 2026)
- Alignerr Help Center: How to Set up Payments? (April 17, 2026)
- Alignerr Help Center: Alignerr Payment FAQs (April 16, 2026)
- Alignerr Help Center: What if I see the 'Location Denied' error?
- Alignerr Help Center: What is Alignerr?
- Alignerr Help Center: Project Based Work
- Alignerr homepage (read November 6, 2026)
- Alignerr: Process, onboarding at a glance (read November 6, 2026)
- Alignerr FAQs (read November 6, 2026)
- Annotation Academy: Is Alignerr Legit? (3,988 Reddit comments, updated November 2, 2026)
- Trustpilot: Alignerr 1-star reviews
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Frequently asked questions
Is Alignerr legit?
Yes. Alignerr is the expert network of Labelbox, a San Francisco AI data company that raised over $100 million in October 2026, and it pays weekly through Stripe or PayPal. On per-task projects only accepted work is paid, and workers report unreviewed tasks, sudden removals and deactivations that left completed work unpaid, with support that rarely answers.
Is Alignerr a scam?
No. Alignerr is a real company. As of 6 November 2026 no Alignerr-specific impersonation cases turned up. Real applications start at app.alignerr.com, support is support@alignerr.com, and payouts are connected only after you are assigned to a project, through Stripe or PayPal. Fake recruiters usually start on text, WhatsApp or Telegram and later ask you to pay; never pay to get a job.
Does Alignerr pay?
Yes. Legitimate (Labelbox-backed) and pays weekly via Stripe Connect or PayPal, but worker sentiment softened through 2026: reports of retroactive review failures, lost project history, and occasional unpaid work sit alongside praise for onboarding and pay. Treat the smooth start as no guarantee of steady volume. Payouts: Stripe Connect or PayPal by region; direct deposit. Each Monday-to-Sunday week of work is processed the next week and paid by the following Friday, through the one provider enabled for your country (Stripe or PayPal; people hired through Upwork are paid by Upwork). Projects pay per hour, per task or per task per turn, at the rate active when you submit. On per-task projects you are paid only for tasks that pass quality review and are accepted; completed tasks that are not accepted are not paid. Changing your payout method means redoing Persona verification.
How much does Alignerr pay?
$10–$200/hr (German voice actors to $280/hr). Per-role hourly ranges come straight from Alignerr's own public jobs feed, read in full on 6 Nov 2026 (5,504 rows, 5,281 distinct open roles, every one stating an hourly range): the middle role runs $35 to $80 an hour (median low and high ends). By field, as the feed states them: software engineering mostly $20–$100, finance $35–$120, accounting $35–$70, math $75–$90, medicine $40–$80, physics, chemistry and biology $35–$80, marketing $35–$70, customer support $20–$50, transcription $10–$35; formal-proof (Lean 4) roles $170–$200; and voice acting mostly $120–$200 by language, German $250–$280, the highest band. The $200–$400 Machine Learning Evaluation Specialist band this card cited on 31 Oct 2026 is no longer in the feed. Alignerr's homepage labels $80/hr 'Average pay' (read 6 Nov 2026): that is the top of the middle role's range, so read it as a ceiling, not the typical rate.
Is Alignerr worth it?
Alignerr pays $10–$200/hr (German voice actors to $280/hr) (platform-stated). It rewards credentialed experts who clear its assessment far more than open generalist work. Worker sentiment: Trustpilot 4.5/5 (3,069 reviews).
How does Alignerr pay out?
Stripe Connect or PayPal by region; direct deposit.
Where can you work for Alignerr?
Global, remote-first; roles region-targeted (US, UK, EU, Australia, Singapore, Brazil, Philippines).
How do I get accepted on Alignerr?
Sign in with Google at app.alignerr.com, upload your resume and apply to roles that match your expertise. Some roles add an assessment, a voice sample or a Zara AI interview. Alignerr then contacts you by email and Discord when a project is ready; at that point you verify your ID, accept the contract and connect your payout account.
Can I retake the Alignerr Zara interview?
Only if your first session failed for technical reasons, such as connectivity or software problems: contact support with the details to ask for a new session. You cannot request extra interviews, and Alignerr does not share individual results.
Why have I not been given a project after onboarding?
Alignerr's work is tied to customer projects and comes in waves, with waiting periods while it waits on customers for new datasets. Being onboarded does not guarantee work; Alignerr says more work becomes available over time.
How and when does Alignerr pay?
Weekly. Each Monday-to-Sunday week is paid by the following Friday through Stripe or PayPal, whichever is enabled for your country. On per-task projects only tasks that pass review and are accepted are paid.
Do I need ID to apply to Alignerr?
Not to sign up, but expect to soon after. Alignerr's Process page and FAQ page (read 6 November 2026) ask every applicant to verify an ID through Persona around the time they apply for jobs, before contract and billing setup; its help center (updated 8 April 2026) says only once you are matched with a project or a job application is accepted. Persona takes a driver's license, state ID, work permit or permanent residence card photographed live, plus a selfie.
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