What AI training platforms pay per hour
7 of 9 AI training platforms whose own pages we read pay by the hour, each rate quoted from the platform's page, read 8 October 2026.
How the pay is set
The tier of work the rate is for
Lowest published rate
Highest published rate
How every platform answered
Read across a row for one platform's answers, and open any of them for the quoted sentence, its page and the read date. A "not stated" cell means the page does not speak to that question.
| Platform | How the pay is set | The tier of work the rate is for | Lowest published rate | Highest published rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alignerr | paid by the hour | several tiers | 30 USD | 110 USD |
| Clickworker | paid per task | not statedNot addressed in Clickworker job examples | not statedNot addressed in Clickworker job examples | not statedNot addressed in Clickworker job examples |
| DataAnnotation | paid by the hour | several tiers | 25 USD | 150 USD |
| Handshake | paid by the hour | several tiers | 30 USD | 125 USD |
| Mercor | paid by the hour | coding work Not addressed in Enterprise AI agent users posting | varies by document | varies by document |
| Mindrift | paid by the hour | varies by document | 15 USD Not addressed in Mindrift blog: freelance AI developer work | varies by document |
| OneForma | paid per task | not statedNot addressed in OneForma home page | not statedNot addressed in OneForma home page | not statedNot addressed in OneForma home page |
| Outlier | paid by the hour | not statedNot addressed in Outlier FAQ | not statedNot addressed in Outlier FAQ | not statedNot addressed in Outlier FAQ |
| Prolific | paid by the hour | not statedNot addressed in Prolific payment principles | 8 USD | not statedNot addressed in Prolific payment principles |
The 48 sentences the answers come from
- Alignerr, Alignerr home page, read 2026-10-08, How the pay is set:
Apply now $80/hr Average pay 1K+
- Alignerr, Alignerr home page, read 2026-10-08, The tier of work the rate is for:
Put your trading expertise to work shaping the future of AI. Finance pros wanted — fully remote, flexible, and well paid.... $55-110/hr
- Alignerr, Alignerr home page, read 2026-10-08, Lowest published rate:
Put your way with words to work shaping the future of AI. Flexible, remote, and perfect for detail-obsessed English writers.... $30-40/hr
- Alignerr, Alignerr home page, read 2026-10-08, Highest published rate:
Put your trading expertise to work shaping the future of AI. Finance pros wanted — fully remote, flexible, and well paid.... $55-110/hr
- Clickworker, Clickworker job examples, read 2026-10-08, How the pay is set:
They work flexibly and are paid per task directly by us.
- Clickworker, Clickworker job examples, read 2026-10-08, The tier of work the rate is for: No answer on the page, which ran to 6,989 characters when read on 2026-10-08.
- Clickworker, Clickworker job examples, read 2026-10-08, Lowest published rate: No answer on the page, which ran to 6,989 characters when read on 2026-10-08.
- Clickworker, Clickworker job examples, read 2026-10-08, Highest published rate: No answer on the page, which ran to 6,989 characters when read on 2026-10-08.
- DataAnnotation, DataAnnotation home page, read 2026-10-08, How the pay is set:
Remote contract roles matched to your skills. Consistent projects, flexible hours, and expert rates of up to $75–$125+/hr
- DataAnnotation, DataAnnotation home page, read 2026-10-08, The tier of work the rate is for:
Remote contract roles matched to your skills. Consistent projects, flexible hours, and expert rates of up to $75–$125+/hr
- DataAnnotation, DataAnnotation home page, read 2026-10-08, Lowest published rate:
Japanese Specialist Languages $25 – $40 / hr
- DataAnnotation, DataAnnotation home page, read 2026-10-08, Highest published rate:
Software Engineer Coding $40 – $150+ / hr
- Handshake, MOVE Program FAQ, read 2026-10-08, How the pay is set:
Hourly rates are $30–$125, based on education level, expertise, and project
- Handshake, MOVE Program FAQ, read 2026-10-08, The tier of work the rate is for:
Hourly rates are $30–$125, based on education level, expertise, and project
- Handshake, MOVE Program FAQ, read 2026-10-08, Lowest published rate:
Hourly rates are $30–$125, based on education level, expertise, and project
- Handshake, MOVE Program FAQ, read 2026-10-08, Highest published rate:
Hourly rates are $30–$125, based on education level, expertise, and project
- Mercor, Special projects software engineers posting, read 2026-10-08, How the pay is set:
Early applicant $100-$200 per hour
- Mercor, Special projects software engineers posting, read 2026-10-08, The tier of work the rate is for:
Early applicant $100-$200 per hour
- Mercor, Special projects software engineers posting, read 2026-10-08, Lowest published rate:
Early applicant $100-$200 per hour
- Mercor, Special projects software engineers posting, read 2026-10-08, Highest published rate:
Early applicant $100-$200 per hour
- Mercor, Software developers posting, read 2026-10-08, How the pay is set:
Early applicant $70-$100 per hour
- Mercor, Software developers posting, read 2026-10-08, The tier of work the rate is for:
Early applicant $70-$100 per hour
- Mercor, Software developers posting, read 2026-10-08, Lowest published rate:
Early applicant $70-$100 per hour
- Mercor, Software developers posting, read 2026-10-08, Highest published rate:
Early applicant $70-$100 per hour
- Mercor, Enterprise AI agent users posting, read 2026-10-08, How the pay is set:
Early applicant $30 per hour
- Mercor, Enterprise AI agent users posting, read 2026-10-08, The tier of work the rate is for: No answer on the page, which ran to 3,017 characters when read on 2026-10-08.
- Mercor, Enterprise AI agent users posting, read 2026-10-08, Lowest published rate:
Early applicant $30 per hour
- Mercor, Enterprise AI agent users posting, read 2026-10-08, Highest published rate:
Early applicant $30 per hour
- Mindrift, Mindrift home page, read 2026-10-08, How the pay is set:
Entry-level: $15-30 per hour Domain experts: $60-100+/hr
- Mindrift, Mindrift home page, read 2026-10-08, The tier of work the rate is for:
Entry-level: $15-30 per hour Domain experts: $60-100+/hr
- Mindrift, Mindrift home page, read 2026-10-08, Lowest published rate:
Entry-level: $15-30 per hour Domain experts: $60-100+/hr
- Mindrift, Mindrift home page, read 2026-10-08, Highest published rate:
$15 to $100+ per hour depending on project complexity and your domain expertise. Compensation is always visible before you begin each task.
- Mindrift, Mindrift blog: freelance AI developer work, read 2026-10-08, How the pay is set:
Rates on Mindrift reach $90/hr, you get to use your existing development skills
- Mindrift, Mindrift blog: freelance AI developer work, read 2026-10-08, The tier of work the rate is for:
Rates on Mindrift reach $90/hr, you get to use your existing development skills
- Mindrift, Mindrift blog: freelance AI developer work, read 2026-10-08, Lowest published rate: No answer on the page, which ran to 10,611 characters when read on 2026-10-08.
- Mindrift, Mindrift blog: freelance AI developer work, read 2026-10-08, Highest published rate:
Rates on Mindrift reach $90/hr, you get to use your existing development skills
- OneForma, OneForma home page, read 2026-10-08, How the pay is set:
Session-based, paid per session. Each session runs 3–8 minutes
- OneForma, OneForma home page, read 2026-10-08, The tier of work the rate is for: No answer on the page, which ran to 8,208 characters when read on 2026-10-08.
- OneForma, OneForma home page, read 2026-10-08, Lowest published rate: No answer on the page, which ran to 8,208 characters when read on 2026-10-08.
- OneForma, OneForma home page, read 2026-10-08, Highest published rate: No answer on the page, which ran to 8,208 characters when read on 2026-10-08.
- Outlier, Outlier FAQ, read 2026-10-08, How the pay is set:
Your earnings are based on the hours you contribute each week
- Outlier, Outlier FAQ, read 2026-10-08, The tier of work the rate is for: No answer on the page, which ran to 6,004 characters when read on 2026-10-08.
- Outlier, Outlier FAQ, read 2026-10-08, Lowest published rate: No answer on the page, which ran to 6,004 characters when read on 2026-10-08.
- Outlier, Outlier FAQ, read 2026-10-08, Highest published rate: No answer on the page, which ran to 6,004 characters when read on 2026-10-08.
- Prolific, Prolific payment principles, read 2026-10-08, How the pay is set:
Our minimum rate is £6 / $8 per hour. Everything beyond that is your call.
- Prolific, Prolific payment principles, read 2026-10-08, The tier of work the rate is for: No answer on the page, which ran to 15,132 characters when read on 2026-10-08.
- Prolific, Prolific payment principles, read 2026-10-08, Lowest published rate:
Our minimum rate is £6 / $8 per hour. Everything beyond that is your call.
- Prolific, Prolific payment principles, read 2026-10-08, Highest published rate: No answer on the page, which ran to 15,132 characters when read on 2026-10-08.
Set aside after reading
12 named documents were read and left out because they are not what this board covers; each reason is below. They are counted, never answered.
- Mercor: AI trainer salary and hourly rates: Mercor's article on market-wide AI trainer averages, not its own rate
- Scale AI careers: Scale AI's careers page is about employment at Scale, not trainer pay
- Appen: Appen's home page addresses AI customers; it states no contributor pay
- aitrainer.work: Outlier pay by project type: a third-party guide to Outlier pay, not the platform's own page
- aitrainer.work: DataAnnotation pay by category: a third-party guide to DataAnnotation pay, not the platform's own page
- aitrainer.work: Turing LLM trainer (SWE-bench): the charter admits it for: aggregator copy of a Turing posting
- aitrainer.work: Turing AI quality analyst (English): the charter admits it for: aggregator copy
- remowork: Alignerr pay and benefits: a third-party page of worker-reported rates, not the platform's own page
- remowork: Meridial AI pay and benefits: a third-party page of worker-reported rates, not the platform's own page
- jobs.remote.com: Invisible business expert AI data trainer: the page carries only a company blurb; it states no pay
- Working Nomads: TELUS rater (US): the charter admits it for: aggregator copy (expired posting)
- startup.jobs: Mindrift English writer: the charter admits it for: aggregator copy
How the figures are worked out
Each platform's own pay pages and job postings were read through estate-fetch and stored whole (sha256 on every row).
For every page, four questions were answered from its own words: how the pay is set, the tier of work the rate is for, lowest published rate, highest published rate.
Every stated answer carries the sentence it rests on, checked against the stored text; 'not stated' means the page read does not address the question.
A platform with several pages reads 'varies' where they disagree.
9 platforms, 12 pages.
Not read yet, so not counted: 1 named document.
25 sources, with links
- DataAnnotation (quoted for reporting from the publisher's pay pages and job postings)
- Mercor: software developers (quoted for reporting from the publisher's pay pages and job postings)
- Mercor: special projects software engineers (quoted for reporting from the publisher's pay pages and job postings)
- Mercor: enterprise AI agent users (quoted for reporting from the publisher's pay pages and job postings)
- Mercor: AI trainer salary and hourly rates (read, set aside)
- Mindrift (quoted for reporting from the publisher's pay pages and job postings)
- Mindrift: freelance AI developer work (quoted for reporting from the publisher's pay pages and job postings)
- Alignerr (quoted for reporting from the publisher's pay pages and job postings)
- Turing jobs (not yet read)
- Scale AI careers (read, set aside)
- Appen (read, set aside)
- OneForma (quoted for reporting from the publisher's pay pages and job postings)
- Clickworker (quoted for reporting from the publisher's pay pages and job postings)
- Handshake MOVE FAQ (quoted for reporting from the publisher's pay pages and job postings)
- Prolific payment principles (quoted for reporting from the publisher's pay pages and job postings)
- Outlier FAQ (quoted for reporting from the publisher's pay pages and job postings)
- aitrainer.work: Outlier pay by project type (read, set aside)
- aitrainer.work: DataAnnotation pay by category (read, set aside)
- aitrainer.work: Turing LLM trainer (SWE-bench) (read, set aside)
- aitrainer.work: Turing AI quality analyst (English) (read, set aside)
- remowork: Alignerr pay and benefits (read, set aside)
- remowork: Meridial AI pay and benefits (read, set aside)
- jobs.remote.com: Invisible business expert AI data trainer (read, set aside)
- Working Nomads: TELUS rater (US) (read, set aside)
- startup.jobs: Mindrift English writer (read, set aside)
Use this figure
7 of 9 AI training platforms whose own pages we read pay by the hour, each rate quoted from the platform's page, read 8 October 2026.
How the pay is set, by platform: paid by the hour 7 of 9, paid per task 2 of 9 (9 platforms, read 8 October 2026).
The tier of work the rate is for, by platform: not stated 4 of 9, several tiers 3 of 9, coding work 1 of 9, varies 1 of 9 (9 platforms, read 8 October 2026).
Lowest published rate, by platform: a stated USD rate 5 of 9, not stated 3 of 9, varies 1 of 9 (9 platforms, read 8 October 2026).
Highest published rate, by platform: not stated 4 of 9, a stated USD rate 3 of 9, varies 2 of 9 (9 platforms, read 8 October 2026).
To cite: "What AI training platforms pay per hour", updated 2026-10-08, https://aitrainerpay.com/datasets/ai-trainer-pay-index/.
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Questions this data answers
What does each AI-training platform pay per hour, by tier (generalist, coding, expert), from its own pages?
7 of 9 AI training platforms whose own pages we read pay by the hour, each rate quoted from the platform's page, read 8 October 2026.