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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.

Live roles updated 12 hrs agoPay is labeled by how we know it. Data last refreshed 18 Oct 2026.

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.

  1. Typical pay
    $35–$130/hr
    Open roles
    394
    Pay stated
    100%
    Open worldwide
    100%
    Listed in 30 days
    91%

    Is Alignerr legit?Alignerr payHow to apply

  2. Typical pay
    $100/hr
    Open roles
    297
    Pay stated
    100%
    Open worldwide
    0%
    Listed in 30 days
    100%

    Is Mindrift legit?Mindrift payHow to apply

  3. Typical pay
    $50–$270/hr
    Open roles
    249
    Pay stated
    98%
    Open worldwide
    67%
    Listed in 30 days
    73%

    Is micro1 legit?micro1 payHow to apply

  4. Typical pay
    $70–$150/hr
    Open roles
    36
    Pay stated
    97%
    Open worldwide
    83%
    Listed in 30 days
    64%

    Is RemoExperts legit?RemoExperts payHow to apply

  5. Typical pay
    $35–$65/hr
    Open roles
    532
    Pay stated
    99%
    Open worldwide
    36%
    Listed in 30 days
    0%

    Is Invisible legit?Invisible payHow to apply

  6. Typical pay
    $55–$150/hr
    Open roles
    170
    Pay stated
    100%
    Open worldwide
    0%
    Listed in 30 days
    12%

    Is Handshake AI legit?Handshake AI payHow to apply

  7. Typical pay
    $40–$80/hr
    Open roles
    128
    Pay stated
    100%
    Open worldwide
    6%
    Listed in 30 days
    13%

    Is Anyone AI legit?Anyone AI payHow to apply

  8. Typical pay
    $50–$125/hr
    Open roles
    217
    Pay stated
    100%
    Open worldwide
    0%
    Listed in 30 days
    8%

    Is AfterQuery legit?AfterQuery payHow to apply

  9. Typical pay
    $55–$150/hr
    Open roles
    232
    Pay stated
    84%
    Open worldwide
    0%
    Listed in 30 days
    25%

    Is Mercor legit?Mercor payHow to apply

  10. Typical pay
    $80–$125/hr
    Open roles
    20
    Pay stated
    90%
    Open worldwide
    5%
    Listed in 30 days
    55%

    Is Sovrano AI legit?Sovrano AI payHow to apply

  11. Typical pay
    $105–$150/hr
    Open roles
    43
    Pay stated
    53%
    Open worldwide
    88%
    Listed in 30 days
    0%

    Is Babel Audio legit?Babel Audio payHow to apply

  12. Typical pay
    Not stated on most roles
    Open roles
    377
    Pay stated
    100%
    Open worldwide
    1%
    Listed in 30 days
    5%

    Is SuperAnnotate (SME) legit?SuperAnnotate (SME) payHow to apply

  13. Typical pay
    $18–$100/hr
    Open roles
    78
    Pay stated
    73%
    Open worldwide
    1%
    Listed in 30 days
    30%

    Is Braintrust legit?Braintrust payHow to apply

  14. Typical pay
    Not stated on most roles
    Open roles
    194
    Pay stated
    11%
    Open worldwide
    86%
    Listed in 30 days
    50%

    Is Turing legit?Turing payHow to apply

  15. Typical pay
    $55–$105/hr
    Open roles
    25
    Pay stated
    60%
    Open worldwide
    0%
    Listed in 30 days
    73%

    Is Terac legit?Terac payHow to apply

  16. Typical pay
    $40–$65/hr
    Open roles
    15
    Pay stated
    100%
    Open worldwide
    93%
    Listed in 30 days
    0%

    Is xAI (SpaceXAI) legit?xAI (SpaceXAI) payHow to apply

  17. Typical pay
    $7–$60/hr
    Open roles
    60
    Pay stated
    100%
    Open worldwide
    20%
    Listed in 30 days
    0%

    Is Claru legit?Claru payHow to apply

  18. Typical pay
    $7–$40/hr
    Open roles
    235
    Pay stated
    78%
    Open worldwide
    0%
    Listed in 30 days
    10%

    Is Welo Data legit?Welo Data payHow to apply

  19. Typical pay
    $15–$60/hr
    Open roles
    42
    Pay stated
    98%
    Open worldwide
    0%
    Listed in 30 days
    5%

    Is OpenTrain AI legit?OpenTrain AI payHow to apply

  20. Typical pay
    Not stated on most roles
    Open roles
    55
    Pay stated
    9%
    Open worldwide
    15%
    Listed in 30 days
    53%

    Is Appen legit?Appen payHow to apply

  21. Typical pay
    Not stated on most roles
    Open roles
    24
    Pay stated
    4%
    Open worldwide
    17%
    Listed in 30 days
    21%
  22. Typical pay
    Not stated on most roles
    Open roles
    90
    Pay stated
    0%
    Open worldwide
    0%
    Listed in 30 days
    22%

    Is Sigma AI legit?How to apply

  23. Typical pay
    Not stated on most roles
    Open roles
    20
    Pay stated
    15%
    Open worldwide
    95%
    Listed in 30 days
    0%
  24. Typical pay
    Not stated on most roles
    Open roles
    66
    Pay stated
    11%
    Open worldwide
    0%
    Listed in 30 days
    14%

    Is TransPerfect DataForce legit?TransPerfect DataForce payHow to apply

  25. Typical pay
    Not stated on most roles
    Open roles
    67
    Pay stated
    0%
    Open worldwide
    0%
    Listed in 30 days
    3%

    Is Perle Labs legit?How to apply

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.

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micro1

AI-vetted expert marketplace

249 open

Zara AI-interview vetting, then expert data work at published hourly rates.

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Mercor logo

Mercor

Expert credential marketplace

232 open

Premium expert network: physicians, lawyers, engineers, PhDs.

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AfterQuery logo

AfterQuery

Expert reasoning capture

217 open

Expert reasoning and rubrics for frontier labs, weekly Stripe pay.

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Braintrust

Community-owned, 0% fee

78 open

Keep all of your pay: published per-role bands, no talent fees.

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Turing

Coding-centric data

194 open

Coding-and-reasoning data for frontier labs, heavy vetting.

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Anyone AI logo

Anyone AI

Expert AI-trainer contracts (Latin America, Europe)

128 open

Hourly expert contracts (STEM, software, quant finance) for AI lab projects, from a Latin American AI training company.

How to get accepted
Alignerr logo

Alignerr

Expert task-authoring

394 open

Design the training tasks in your own professional domain.

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RemoExperts

Credentialed contributors

36 open

Expert AI-training contracts for degreed professionals: STEM, coding, CAD, medicine, law, finance.

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Handshake AI logo

Handshake AI

Credentialed US talent

170 open

Degree-holding US trainers, with hourly contract roles on its live board.

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OpenTrain AI

Aggregator + marketplace

42 open

A unified board of AI-training jobs with real per-role pay.

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Sovrano AI

Expert AI evaluation (Europe)

20 open

A Barcelona expert-evaluation platform: domain audits, slide experts and paid internships.

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Invisible

Expert project network

532 open

Freelance AI-trainer projects, pay stated per project.

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Mindrift logo

Mindrift

Freelance specialist projects

297 open

Toloka-backed freelance projects: coding, STEM, legal, consulting.

How to get accepted
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xAI (SpaceXAI)

Frontier lab, in-house tutors

15 open

Grok's own tutor program: hourly work straight from the lab, no marketplace in between.

How to get accepted
Perle Labs logo

Perle Labs

Web3 expert network

67 open

AI-data company with paid hiring gigs (transcription, audio, video) and a crypto Points app.

How to get accepted
Welo Data logo

Welo Data

Vetted expert community

235 open

Welocalize's AI-data community: annotation, evaluation, red-teaming, and multilingual work.

How to get accepted
Terac logo

Terac

Verified-expert marketplace

25 open

Browse live AI-training and paid-study listings, each with pay shown upfront.

How to get accepted
Claru logo

Claru

AI lab data business (video capture + expert evaluation)

60 open

Reka AI's data business: paid first-person phone video capture and expert AI evaluation.

How to get accepted
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Outlier (Scale AI)

Expert queue (Scale AI)

5 open

Scale AI's contributor arm, now leaner and shifted toward technical experts.

How to get accepted

Vetto

Expert AI review, paid per approved task

20 open

A Brazilian-founded expert network that pays professionals per approved task to review and write AI training data.

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Pasiflora AI

Credentialed expert network

7 open

NVIDIA Inception expert-data startup pairing PhD, MD and JD experts with AI labs.

Microtask crowd

Open, high-volume crowds where you pick up microtasks and evaluation work. The accessible entry point, priced by geography.

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Babel Audio

Voice data for AI (conversation, voice acting, transcription)

43 open

Get paid to train AI with your voice: recorded conversations, voice acting and transcription.

How to get accepted
TransPerfect DataForce logo

TransPerfect DataForce

Microtask + project crowd

66 open

A global crowd labeling, recording, and rating AI data in hundreds of languages.

How to get accepted
Appen logo

Appen

Global crowd (speech/localization)

55 open

A large global contributor crowd, strong on multilingual speech and evaluation.

How to get accepted
Sigma AI logo

Sigma AI

Multilingual language data

90 open

Language data at scale: transcription, translation, linguistic annotation.

How to get accepted
OneForma logo

OneForma

Global microtask crowd

24 open

Centific's global microtask crowd: annotation, judging, transcription, and translation.

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Remotasks

Entry-level annotation (Scale AI)

3 open

The mass-market entry point: visual and multimodal annotation.

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Pila8

Paid voice recording tasks

3 open

Paid voice recording, conversation and audio-labeling tasks for AI, run by YC startup BeSimple AI.

How to get accepted

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