Key findings
- 1
The largest price recorded: micro1 for Spirit Airlines (debtor), $12,500,000 (stated, 3 Sep 2026).
- 2
micro1: $100K-$2M+ for approved data packages for company operational data (Enterprise Data Partnership) (11 Oct 2026).
- 3
The largest buyer program: micro1, $1 billion over the next 12 months (9 Oct 2026).
- 4
micro1 pays referrers $50,000 referral reward (stated, 11 Oct 2026); the terms are in the figure.
Figure 1
Who is hiring to buy data today (live)
Which labs and vendors have data-acquisition, partnership or licensing roles open right now?
Sample. Read today from the public job boards of 25 AI labs and 14 human-data vendors. Recomputed daily.
The desks a data owner or a broker sells to. Full detail in the report Who Is Buying AI Training Data.
Source. AITraining.jobs Research, Company Data Brokerage: Buyers, Prices and Terms, live data.
Figure 2
Deals and prices paid
What have buyers paid for companies' records and archives?
Sample. 24 records, to 11 Oct 2026, each from the publication linked beside it.
Source. AITraining.jobs Research, Company Data Brokerage: Buyers, Prices and Terms, live data.
Figure 3
Who is buying, and on what terms
Which labs and vendors run programs to buy or license company data, and what do they ask for?
| Who | Price or terms as published |
|---|---|
| Mercor (companies in eight target industries)Mercor | amount not published |
| Ooak Data (companies (sellers))Ooak Data | Earn up to $300K |
| micro1 (operating companies (sellers); capital from Citi and Hercules Capital)Business Wire (via FinancialContent) | $1 billion over the next 12 months |
| SpaceX (troubled or defunct startups)Bloomberg | n/a |
| micro1 (50 partner companies (unnamed))micro1 forum | $100K-$2M+ each, 50 companies |
Sample. 5 records, to 11 Oct 2026, each from the publication linked beside it.
Source. AITraining.jobs Research, Company Data Brokerage: Buyers, Prices and Terms, live data.
Figure 4
What brokers and referrers are paid
How are brokers and referrers paid when a deal closes?
Sample. 24 records, to 11 Oct 2026, each from the publication linked beside it.
Source. AITraining.jobs Research, Company Data Brokerage: Buyers, Prices and Terms, live data.
Figure 5
Law and policy that shape the trade
Which rulings, laws and policies change what company data can be sold?
| Who | Price or terms as published |
|---|---|
| Members of Congress (led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Steven Horsford) (Google; Spirit Airlines)The Record (Recorded Future News) | $10 million deal |
| Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz (Daniel M. Goldberg) (companies selling data)Legal 500 (Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, Daniel M. Goldberg) | n/a |
| Consumer privacy ombudsman (Lucy L. Thomson) (Google; Spirit Airlines)Business Insider (via Yahoo Finance) | $10 million sale |
| California Privacy Protection Agency (registered data brokers)Husch Blackwell (Byte Back) | $6,000 plus up to 2.99 percent processing fee |
| U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence)LawNext (LawSites) | n/a |
| State data-broker registries (CA, OR, TX, VT; CT and NJ to follow) (data brokers selling or licensing personal data)Husch Blackwell (Byte Back) | n/a |
| U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (Doe v. GitHub (GitHub, Microsoft, OpenAI))Haynes Boone | n/a |
| Consumer privacy ombudsman (Lucy L. Thomson) (Google; Spirit Airlines)Research Suite by Stretto (chapter11cases.com), docket summary | n/a |
| U.S. Department of Justice (OpenAI copyright MDL (S.D.N.Y.), addressing The New York Times' claims)IPWatchdog | n/a |
Sample. 9 records, to 11 Oct 2026, each from the publication linked beside it.
Source. AITraining.jobs Research, Company Data Brokerage: Buyers, Prices and Terms, live data.
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AITraining.jobs (2026). Company Data Brokerage: Buyers, Prices and Terms (live data, 12 Jan 2026 to 11 Oct 2026). https://www.aitraining.team/research/company-data-brokerage (accessed 18 Oct 2026)
BibTeX
@misc{aitrainingjobs_company_data_brokerage_live,
author = {{AITraining.jobs}},
title = {Company Data Brokerage: Buyers, Prices and Terms (live data, 12 Jan 2026 to 11 Oct 2026)},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://www.aitraining.team/research/company-data-brokerage}},
note = {Accessed 18 Oct 2026},
}More research
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