Ranked by live data · 17 Oct 2026
The best AI training platforms, ranked by live data
Ranked on what each platform's own job board shows today, then every platform we track. Compare pay across every platform, see the highest-paying platforms, or browse by kind of work.
The 25 best AI training platforms right now
Ranked on five figures read from each platform's public job board: typical pay, open roles and pay stated from today's board, open worldwide and listed in 30 days from the platform scorecard (to 17 Oct 2026). On each figure a platform earns points for its place among the 25 platforms with at least 10 open roles (best 100, lowest 0), and its score is the average of its five points. Open a score to see its points, or compare all 25 on every figure. No referral or partner payment moves this list.
Score: (58 + 96 + 85 + 100 + 96) ÷ 5 = 87Compare all 25 platforms on every figure
Score: (96 + 88 + 85 + 19 + 100) ÷ 5 = 77.6Compare all 25 platforms on every figure
Score: (71 + 83 + 58 + 75 + 92) ÷ 5 = 75.8Compare all 25 platforms on every figure
Score: (92 + 21 + 54 + 79 + 83) ÷ 5 = 65.8Compare all 25 platforms on every figure
Score: (63 + 100 + 67 + 71 + 17) ÷ 5 = 63.6Compare all 25 platforms on every figure
Score: (88 + 63 + 85 + 19 + 42) ÷ 5 = 59.4Compare all 25 platforms on every figure
Score: (52 + 58 + 85 + 54 + 46) ÷ 5 = 59Compare all 25 platforms on every figure
Score: (71 + 71 + 85 + 19 + 33) ÷ 5 = 55.8Compare all 25 platforms on every figure
Score: (71 + 75 + 46 + 19 + 63) ÷ 5 = 54.8Compare all 25 platforms on every figure
Score: (79 + 6 + 50 + 50 + 79) ÷ 5 = 52.8Compare all 25 platforms on every figure
Score: (100 + 29 + 29 + 88 + 6) ÷ 5 = 50.4Compare all 25 platforms on every figure
Score: (0 + 92 + 85 + 42 + 25) ÷ 5 = 48.8Compare all 25 platforms on every figure
Is SuperAnnotate (SME) legit?SuperAnnotate (SME) payHow to apply
Score: (42 + 50 + 38 + 46 + 67) ÷ 5 = 48.6Compare all 25 platforms on every figure
Score: (0 + 67 + 21 + 83 + 71) ÷ 5 = 48.4Compare all 25 platforms on every figure
Score: (83 + 17 + 33 + 19 + 88) ÷ 5 = 48Compare all 25 platforms on every figure
Score: (52 + 0 + 85 + 92 + 6) ÷ 5 = 47Compare all 25 platforms on every figure
Score: (33 + 38 + 85 + 67 + 6) ÷ 5 = 45.8Compare all 25 platforms on every figure
Score: (38 + 79 + 42 + 19 + 38) ÷ 5 = 43.2Compare all 25 platforms on every figure
Score: (46 + 25 + 63 + 19 + 29) ÷ 5 = 36.4Compare all 25 platforms on every figure
Score: (0 + 33 + 13 + 58 + 75) ÷ 5 = 35.8Compare all 25 platforms on every figure
Score: (0 + 13 + 8 + 63 + 54) ÷ 5 = 27.6Compare all 25 platforms on every figure
Score: (0 + 54 + 2 + 19 + 58) ÷ 5 = 26.6Compare all 25 platforms on every figure
Score: (0 + 6 + 25 + 96 + 6) ÷ 5 = 26.6Compare all 25 platforms on every figure
Score: (0 + 42 + 17 + 19 + 50) ÷ 5 = 25.6Compare all 25 platforms on every figure
Is TransPerfect DataForce legit?TransPerfect DataForce payHow to apply
Score: (0 + 46 + 2 + 19 + 21) ÷ 5 = 17.6Compare all 25 platforms on every figure
Typical pay is the board's own pay figure for the platform, shown where most of its roles state a rate, and compared on its median. Open worldwide and listed in 30 days are read from the platform scorecard, which defines each and states its sample. Platforms level on a figure share their places, so a figure several platforms top together earns each of them the same points.
Every platform that pays you to train AI
Expert network
Vetted networks that match your professional skills to project-based AI-training work, where the pay ceiling is highest.
Zara AI-interview vetting, then expert data work at published hourly rates.
How to get acceptedPremium expert network: physicians, lawyers, engineers, PhDs.
How to get acceptedExpert reasoning and rubrics for frontier labs, weekly Stripe pay.
How to get acceptedKeep all of your pay: published per-role bands, no talent fees.
How to get acceptedCoding-and-reasoning data for frontier labs, heavy vetting.
How to get acceptedHourly expert contracts (STEM, software, quant finance) for AI lab projects, from a Latin American AI training company.
How to get acceptedVetted expert network with a data-trainer career ladder.
How to get acceptedDesign the training tasks in your own professional domain.
How to get acceptedExpert AI-training contracts for degreed professionals: STEM, coding, CAD, medicine, law, finance.
How to get acceptedDegree-holding US trainers, with hourly contract roles on its live board.
How to get acceptedA unified board of AI-training jobs with real per-role pay.
How to get acceptedA Barcelona expert-evaluation platform: domain audits, slide experts and paid internships.
How to get acceptedFreelance AI-trainer projects, pay stated per project.
How to get acceptedToloka-backed freelance projects: coding, STEM, legal, consulting.
How to get acceptedGrok's own tutor program: hourly work straight from the lab, no marketplace in between.
How to get acceptedAI-data company with paid hiring gigs (transcription, audio, video) and a crypto Points app.
How to get acceptedWelocalize's AI-data community: annotation, evaluation, red-teaming, and multilingual work.
How to get acceptedBrowse live AI-training and paid-study listings, each with pay shown upfront.
How to get acceptedReka AI's data business: paid first-person phone video capture and expert AI evaluation.
How to get accepted
Scale AI's contributor arm, now leaner and shifted toward technical experts.
How to get accepted
RealTrainAI
Credential-matched network
Credential-matched network routing MDs, JDs, PhDs, and generalists to paid eval projects.
A Brazilian-founded expert network that pays professionals per approved task to review and write AI training data.
Hashlist
Paid AI evaluation tasks for engineers
Engineers build paid AI evaluation tasks (sandboxed environments, reference solutions, verifier tests) on Hashlist's data platform.
NVIDIA Inception expert-data startup pairing PhD, MD and JD experts with AI labs.
Surge AI
Invite-only expert
Premium, invite-only RLHF and expert data for frontier labs.
DataAnnotation
Assessment-gated contractor
Reliable-paying generalist and expert work for educated writers.
How to get accepted
Fleet AI
RL-environment fellowship
Fellowship behind Fleet's enterprise RL environments: RLHF and expert evaluation.
Aligned Labs
Elite expert network
Elite PhD network (OpenAI a customer) where experts set their rate for RLHF and evals.
rustLabs
Expert RL-data network
Vetted expert network building RL environments, evals, and agent traces, paid hourly.
Prime Intellect
RL-environment bounty hub
Get paid to build verifiable RL environments for frontier labs.
Snorkel AI Expert Community
Expert data community
Vetted expert community building specialist datasets and evaluations.
Pareto AI
Selective expert contributors
Selective vetted experts; the judgment no one has figured out how to grade.
Deccan AI (Soul AI)
Invite-only expert data
PhD and specialist data: SFT/RLHF, RL environments, evals.
How to get accepted
Datacurve (Shipd)
Coding-bounty network
Bounties paying vetted engineers to build frontier coding datasets.
Microtask crowd
Open, high-volume crowds where you pick up microtasks and evaluation work. The accessible entry point, priced by geography.
Get paid to train AI with your voice: recorded conversations, voice acting and transcription.
How to get acceptedA global crowd labeling, recording, and rating AI data in hundreds of languages.
How to get acceptedA large global contributor crowd, strong on multilingual speech and evaluation.
How to get acceptedLanguage data at scale: transcription, translation, linguistic annotation.
How to get acceptedCentific's global microtask crowd: annotation, judging, transcription, and translation.
The mass-market entry point: visual and multimodal annotation.
Paid voice recording, conversation and audio-labeling tasks for AI, run by YC startup BeSimple AI.
How to get accepted
RWS TrainAI Community
Open rater community
RWS's community of raters, annotators, and linguists across hundreds of language variants.
Wirestock
Creator data marketplace
Creators get paid per approved asset on AI-data projects and earn a share each time their work is licensed.
How to get accepted
Twine AI
AI data-collector marketplace
UK marketplace where 'AI collectors' record speech, image, and video in many languages.
PublicAI
Web3 data crowd
Web3 data network paying a global crowd in points and USDT to collect, label, and evaluate data.
Stellar AI
Project-based trainer pool
Project-based AI training (prompts, coding challenges, evals), paid weekly via PayPal.
Toloka
Microtask crowd + experts
A microtask crowd with a high-end expert-data layer on top.
Clickworker
Microtask crowd (+ UHRS)
Global microtask crowd for AI data, and a gateway to Microsoft's UHRS work.
Sahara AI
Web3 data-labeling
Decentralized data-labeling and evaluation paying crypto per task, open worldwide.
Shaip (Collaborate by Shaip)
Global contributor community
Shaip's contributor community for data collection, annotation, and evaluation, paid weekly.
Uber AI Solutions
Global gig data network
Uber's gig network doing AI data tasks: label, evaluate, translate, record.
DATAmundi
Multilingual data pool
Summa Linguae's successor: multilingual annotation, voice, translation, and eval via DATAtalent.
DiagnosUs
Gamified labeling contests
Centaur Labs' app where clinicians compete in medical-labeling accuracy contests for cash.
Hive Micro
Microtask crowd
Long-running microtask crowd paying cents to a few dollars per task via PayPal or Bitcoin.
iMerit
Enterprise annotation + Scholars
Enterprise annotation ops plus an expert 'Scholars' network.
Sapien
Crypto data-labeling crowd
Gamified image and data tagging that pays in USDC and SAPIEN tokens.
Sama
Salaried delivery centers
Salaried annotation employees in East Africa and India.
TELUS Digital AI
Enterprise rater community
Mature rater community: search, maps, and AI evaluation.
Neevo
Speech & annotation crowd
Defined.ai's crowd community for speech, transcription, and annotation.
Amazon Mechanical Turk
Microtask crowd (HITs)
The original microtask crowd: earn per HIT at requester-set rates.
Research studies
Verified study pools that pay you to take part in surveys, experiments, and preference research, with AI-trainer roles layered on top.
Respondent
B2B study panel + AI eval
Professional-skewed study panel where interviews pay well above consumer rates.
How to get accepted
Prolific
Study pool + AI trainers
Vetted study platform that spans easy studies and paid AI-trainer roles.
CleverX
Expert network (set your rate)
Set your own rate: expert surveys, calls, and AI feedback.
User Interviews
Research-studies marketplace
Get paid for UX studies, interviews, and surveys for real companies.
dscout
Mobile UX research panel
Get paid as a 'scout' for mobile diary studies, missions, and live interviews.
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