AI training platforms
24 of 29 platforms are hiring now.
The platform database compares 59 companies by payout schedule, payment method and hiring steps, including ones without a profile here.
Hiring now
AfterQuery
AfterQuery, also written After Query, hires experts and generalists for remote AI training projects. Open roles pay $15 to $175/hr, paid every Friday.
Alignerr
Labelbox's contributor platform for coding, domain and voice work. Alignerr states $10 to $280/hr, lists each project's rate before you start, and pays weekly through Stripe or PayPal.
Alpheva
Alpheva AI hires physicians, attorneys, engineers and other specialists as remote hourly contractors to build and evaluate AI training data. Most listings state $150 to $250 an hour and are open worldwide. New in September 2026.
AnyoneAI
Anyone AI pays developers, STEM experts and finance specialists $40 to $150/hr to build and grade training tasks for frontier AI labs. Rate shown on every listing, remote across LatAm and Europe.
Babel Audio
Babel Audio pays for recorded conversations at $17.50 to $50 an hour, voice acting at $60 to $150 and transcription up to $110 per hour of finished audio, in 20 languages. Weekly payouts, no CV.
Claru
Claru (Reka AI) pays for first-person video capture at $5-$15/hr by region, and expert annotation, RLHF and red teaming work at $35-$100/hr. Remote, no set hours.
Ethos
Connect with leading AI companies seeking high-level professional judgment. Earn $35-$225/hr (median $80/hr) validating complex data and reviewing model decisions.
Handshake
The Handshake AI Fellowship pays US-based people with associate to PhD backgrounds $40 to $125/hr to evaluate and improve AI models. Weekly payouts via Stripe. Plus what a pending misclassification suit alleges.
Hashlist
Hashlist pays embedded, hardware and controls engineers $300 per accepted task to build eval environments from real projects: driver bring-up, PCB design, PLC logic, real-time budgets, sensor faults. Remote, worldwide.
Innodata
Publicly-traded data engineering company (Nasdaq: INOD) hiring remote Subject Matter Experts for LLM training, evaluation, and data annotation work.
Mercor
Mercor hires contractors in law, medicine, finance, software and languages to train and evaluate AI models. One AI interview, a Persona ID check, and pay every Wednesday via Stripe or Wise.
Meridial (Invisible)
High-context, professional AI training projects. Ideal for specialists focused on deep reasoning, comprehensive guidelines, and steady contract work.
micro1
Micro1 hires experts in engineering, law, healthcare, finance and languages to train and evaluate AI models. Apply, interview with its AI interviewer Zara, then get paid in USD twice a month through Deel.
Mindrift
Toloka's platform for AI trainers, open worldwide except sanctioned countries. States $15-$30/hr for entry-level work and $60-$100+/hr for domain experts, paid on the 5th and 20th of each month.
Outlier AI
Outlier is Scale AI's freelance platform for AI training work: prompts, rubrics and model rating across coding, STEM and languages. Weekly pay every Tuesday via PayPal, Airtm or bank transfer.
Perle
Perle pays expert audio transcribers $3 to $45 an hour depending on the language, from Hindi and Tagalog to Danish and Icelandic. A 25-minute automated interview, answers within 24 hours.
Remo Experts
A global AI training community for specialists in design, finance, computer science, and medicine. Earn competitive project-based pay with referral bonuses.
RWS (TrainAI)
RWS Group's TrainAI program hires remote AI Data Specialists across dozens of languages and US states for AI model evaluation and annotation work.
SME Careers
Global network for domain experts featuring a clear 4-level career progression path. Enjoy flexible hours, transparent pay, and weekly payments via Deel.
Sovrano AI
A Barcelona-based network paying native speakers and domain experts to evaluate and train AI models across 23 European languages. Rate shown upfront on every listing.
TELUS Digital AI Community
TELUS Digital's AI Community hires remote contributors for data annotation, language, and expert AI training work. Listed pay runs from about $6/hr for Data Partner roles to over $50/hr for specialist and PhD-level roles.
Terac
San Francisco-based expert marketplace paying $25-$150+/hr for market research and expert-evaluation studies, with some AI training work mixed in. Verified domain experts across many fields wanted.
Turing
An elite AI talent network trusted by frontier labs and Fortune 500 companies. Secure high-paying remote roles in post-training LLMs, coding, and STEM.
Vetto
Connect with high-value AI evaluation projects in law, finance, health, and technology. Earn per-task compensation averaging $30-$100/hr.
AI labs hiring directly
xAI
The company behind Grok hires AI Tutors directly for languages, writing, legal, STEM, software and video work. Posted US pay $35 to $100/hr.
Anthropic
The company behind Claude posts paid fellowships for PhDs to build the datasets and evaluations Claude trains on, plus salaried human data roles.
Not hiring right now
Abaka AI
Abaka AI is an AI data services company running a private annotator network for automotive, generative AI, and embodied AI clients. Here's what they do and how their hiring works.
DataAnnotation Tech
Flexible remote AI training with no schedules or minimum hours. DataAnnotation states $25 to $150/hr: general projects from $25 to $50+, coding projects from $40 to $150+, paid by PayPal on request.
iMerit
iMerit, founded in 2012 and now part of EXL, is a 5,000+ employee data-annotation company hiring remote AI trainers and domain experts through public LinkedIn postings and its Scholars program.
Respondent
Respondent pays professionals a fixed incentive, often $125 to $250, for a video interview or short diary study about their work, including studies on AI agents and AI tools. Paid by gift card within 7 to 10 business days.
Surge AI
Surge AI's consultant program pays finance, accounting, healthcare ops and coding professionals $60/hr, plus $100 for applying and $100 on acceptance. Here's how it works and how to apply.