The fastest-growing paid-task category: labeling, evaluation, and expert-domain work that trains AI models — verified rates and qualification requirements for each platform.
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Beginner-friendly microtasks across annotation, collection, and validation.
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.
We track 48 AI-training platforms with 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.
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49 platforms listed, including 1 that cover ai training & data labeling as a secondary category.
Is a freelancer hub that aggregates AI training and data labeling jobs from 20+ platforms (Scale, Outlier, DataAnnotation, Snorkel, SuperAnn
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Is a 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
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Is an expert network for AI training and evaluation.
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Pasiflora AI connects credentialed domain experts with AI training, evaluation, validation, generation, and red-team work.
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Pila8 offers remote project-based audio and video tasks for AI training and data collection.
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Is an AI training contributor platform that invites people to apply for projects matched to their expertise, credentials, and availability.
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RemoExperts (rex.zone) is a remote AI data labeling jobs marketplace connecting skilled annotators and evaluators with real-world AI/ML trai
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Is a microtask platform owned by Scale AI, focused on data annotation and AI training.
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rustLabs Experts connects professionals with paid AI training and evaluation projects in software engineering, finance, accounting, machine
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RWS's TrainAI Community is the company's contributor platform for AI training data services.
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SME Careers is SuperAnnotate's credentialed expert talent network for AI training.
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Snorkel AI's Expert Community is the company's contributor network for AI training, data labeling, and evaluation.
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Sovrano AI connects evaluators with paid projects that assess and improve AI models.
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Spout connects people for paid voice conversations and recordings that can be used to train, fine-tune, evaluate, or benchmark AI systems.
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Is an expert contributor network for AI training.
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Is a paid micro-task marketplace connecting individuals (called 'Taskers') to a variety of AI-related tasks — data labeling, voice recording
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TELUS International AI (formerly Lionbridge AI / TELUS Digital) is an AI data solutions provider that hires individual contributors for AI t
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Is an expert marketplace connecting verified professionals with paid work from market research companies and human-data or AI companies.
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Is an AGI infrastructure company that recruits individual domain experts (Finance, Medical, Science, Software, Language) for AI training, ev
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Uber AI Solutions recruits individual US-based contractors to evaluate AI-generated content (code, STEM, finance, multilingual, etc.) and co
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Vetto AI connects scientists, engineers, medical professionals, analysts, educators, and other domain experts with AI development projects.
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Is an AI training data services company that hires individual contributors for data annotation, AI evaluation, and multilingual data collect
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Is an enterprise data provider that also recruits individual freelancers for AI data collection projects (audio, video, image, 3D/sensor, te
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Is a research participant panel where people can get paid to test products and share opinions through studies, screen recordings, videos, qu
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| Name | Pay unit | Typical rate | Payouts | Min payout | Countries | Last verified | Visit |
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| OpenTrain AI | Hourly or project rate | Not published | PayPal, ACH bank transfer, Wise (formerly TransferWise) | Not published | 15 tracked | Visit | |
| Outlier | Per task | General projects ~$15–40/hr; specialist domains higher | PayPal, Airtm, ACH bank transfer | Not published | 15 tracked | Visit | |
| Pareto AI | Hourly or project rate | Not published | ACH bank transfer, PayPal | Not published | 15 tracked | Visit | |
| Pasiflora AI | Hourly or project rate | Not published | — | Not published | 15 tracked | Visit | |
| Pila8 | Per task | Not published | Bank transfer, Dots, PayPal | Not published | 17 tracked | Visit | |
| RealTrainAI | Hourly or project rate | Not published | — | Not published | 15 tracked | Visit | |
| RemoExperts | Hourly or project rate | Not published | PayPal, ACH bank transfer, Wise (formerly TransferWise) | Not published | 15 tracked | Visit | |
| Remotasks | Per task | Not published | PayPal, Airtm | Not published | 83 tracked | Visit | |
| rustLabs Experts | Hourly or project rate | Not published | Dots | Not published | 15 tracked | Visit | |
| RWS TrainAI | Hourly or project rate | Not published | Bank transfer, PayPal | Not published | 15 tracked | Visit | |
| SME Careers by SuperAnnotate | Hourly or project rate | Not published | Deel, ACH bank transfer | Not published | 24 tracked | Visit | |
| Snorkel AI | Hourly or project rate | Not published | ACH bank transfer, PayPal, Deel | Not published | 15 tracked | Visit | |
| Sovrano AI | Per task | Not published | Deel, Bank transfer, Wise (formerly TransferWise) | Not published | 15 tracked | Visit | |
| Spout | Per study or session | Not published | Dots | Not published | 1 tracked | Visit | |
| Stellar AI | Hourly or project rate | Not published | ACH bank transfer, PayPal | Not published | 15 tracked | Visit | |
| TaskVerse | Per task | Not published | PayPal | Not published | 16 tracked | Visit | |
| TELUS International AI | Hourly or project rate | Not published | PayPal, Bank transfer, Deel | Not published | 15 tracked | Visit | |
| Terac | Per study or session | Not published | PayPal, Venmo payout, Prepaid Visa / virtual Visa debit | Not published | 3 tracked | Visit | |
| Turing | Hourly or project rate | Not published | ACH bank transfer, PayPal, Wise (formerly TransferWise) | Not published | 15 tracked | Visit | |
| Uber AI Solutions | Hourly or project rate | Not published | ACH bank transfer | Not published | 1 tracked | Visit | |
| Vetto AI | Per task | Not published | — | Not published | 15 tracked | Visit | |
| Welo Data | Hourly or project rate | Not published | PayPal, Bank transfer | Not published | 15 tracked | Visit | |
| YPAI | Hourly or project rate | Not published | PayPal, Wise (formerly TransferWise), Bank transfer | Not published | 15 tracked | Visit | |
| Pulse Labs | Per study or session | Not published | Tremendous, PayPal, Gift card or voucher | Not published | 16 tracked | Visit |
Clickworker takes beginners at microtask rates; Outlier pays expert-tier rates but gates entry with degree checks.
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