AI training jobs
Get paid to help train AI. Compare the platforms that pay people to rate, write and check AI answers (what they pay, who they want and how you get paid, from each platform's own pages), plus 2,249 open roles at AI training companies.
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Outlier
Run by Scale AI
What you do
- Write hard prompts and the right answers
- Rate and rank AI answers
- Create grading rubrics
- Improve AI responses
Who they look for
- At least an associate degree; some projects need a bachelor's, master's or PhD
- Subject experts in coding, STEM, languages and more
- Age 18+
Pay, in their words
- Rates vary by expertise, project and location; you see the rate before you start source
- Example rates on its site: up to $50/hr (biology), $40/hr (graphic design), $27.50/hr (coding), $15/hr (English writing) source
- General listings in October 2026: up to $35/hr; coding up to $30/hr source
How you're paid
Weekly on Tuesdays, by PayPal, Airtm or ACH bank transfer
Time
No minimum hours, and you can turn projects down
Where
117 countries and territories, including the US, UK, Canada and India; some projects limit locations; no VPNs
DataAnnotation
Run by Surge Labs (named in its contractor terms)
What you do
- Rate and rank chatbot answers
- Check facts and flag errors
- Write prompts and better answers
- Review AI-written code
Who they look for
- Strong English writers
- Coders
- STEM: master's or PhD, or a bachelor's plus 10 years' experience
- Licensed law, finance or medical professionals
- Native speakers of other languages
Pay, in their words
- General projects start at $25 to $50+/hr source
- Coding: $40 to $150+/hr source
- STEM and licensed professionals: $40 to $125+/hr; multilingual: $20+/hr source
How you're paid
PayPal, when you request a payout
Time
No minimum: work as much or as little as you like
Where
50+ countries; fluent English required
Mercor
Mercor, based in San Francisco
What you do
- Review AI answers in your field
- Create examples that teach AI how experts think
- Grade answers against rubrics
Who they look for
- Physicians, lawyers, engineers, finance and consulting professionals
- Language experts
- Software and ML engineers
- Generalists with a master's, or a bachelor's plus 2 to 3 years' experience
Pay, in their words
- Mercor says its average contracted rate is $110/hr source
- Listings range from about $10/hr to $450/hr; a generalist role pays $50 to $60/hr source
How you're paid
Weekly on Wednesdays, through Stripe or Wise depending on your country
Time
Set per project; many listings are 10 to 40 hours a week
Where
Payouts in 107 countries; some roles are US-only
Alignerr
Built and run by Labelbox
What you do
- Create coding challenges
- Write expert prompts
- Grade AI answers against rubrics
- Audio work: transcription and voice
Who they look for
- Students, graduates and PhDs
- Coders
- STEM and health specialists
- Native speakers and voice actors
Pay, in their words
- Alignerr says average pay is $80/hr, and up to $150/hr source
- Listings range from $10/hr to $400/hr source
How you're paid
Weekly, by Stripe or PayPal depending on your country
Time
No minimum, though some projects ask for 15+ hours a week
Where
Applicants worldwide; no visa sponsorship
Handshake AI
Handshake, the student and graduate career network
What you do
- Review and edit AI-written content
- Annotate data
- Suggest improvements to AI answers
Who they look for
- Students, graduates and professionals
- Bachelor's through PhD
- No AI experience needed
Pay, in their words
- From up to $17/hr for generalist work to up to $300/hr for medical roles source
How you're paid
Weekly, through Stripe
Time
No set hours
Where
US-based with work authorization; international is invite-only
Turing
Turing Enterprises, based in San Francisco
What you do
- Evaluate AI-written code and coding agents
- Grade business, finance, legal and medical answers
- Write coding tasks
- Language quality checks
Who they look for
- Software engineers
- STEM PhDs
- Medical, finance, consulting and legal experts
- Language specialists with strong English
Pay, in their words
- Posted rates range from $15/hr to $150/hr; some tasks pay per approved task source
How you're paid
Every two weeks
Time
Set per role, for example 20 to 40 hours a week
Where
140+ countries; no visas; some roles are region-only
Meridial (Invisible)
Expert network of Invisible Technologies
What you do
- Write and answer prompts
- Rank AI answers
- Improve AI reasoning
- Red-teaming
Who they look for
- Domain experts in law, medicine, STEM, finance and coding
- Linguists in 110+ languages
- Students; some roles need no experience
Pay, in their words
- Each project lists its rate; postings commonly say $8 to $65/hr depending on experience and location, and up to $200/hr for some expert roles source
How you're paid
Every two weeks
Where
120+ countries; no visa sponsorship
Appen (CrowdGen)
Appen, a public company listed in Australia
What you do
- Evaluate and annotate AI data
- Expert reviews in law, medicine and finance
- Coding tasks
- Voice recording and transcription
Who they look for
- Domain experts: accounting, finance, healthcare, legal, linguistics, medicine, software
- Native speakers for language projects
Pay, in their words
- Top rates up to $100+/hr depending on location and skills; software engineers up to $150/hr after an unpaid qualification source
- Simple gigs can pay per sentence, for example $0.05 a sentence for voice recording source
How you're paid
Monthly, in your local currency, by bank transfer, PayPal, Payoneer, Airtm and others
Time
Set per project
Where
You must work from the country on your profile
TELUS Digital AI Community
TELUS Digital, part of the Canadian telecom company TELUS
What you do
- Rate search results, ads and AI answers
- Annotate data
- Write and evaluate prompts
Who they look for
- Long-time residents of the country (often 3 to 5 years)
- Fluent in the local language
- Usually no experience needed
Pay, in their words
- Many postings give no rate; examples: £17.40/hr for a UK rater, $8/hr for a Hindi rater in India source
How you're paid
Monthly invoice, paid through Hyperwallet (PayPal, Venmo in the US, or bank)
Time
10 to 40 hours a week
Where
About 40 countries, each posting for one country
Mindrift (Toloka)
Toloka AI, based in the Netherlands
What you do
- Write prompts
- Evaluate and improve AI answers
- Labeling
- Expert projects in STEM, coding and law
Who they look for
- Open tasks: no requirements
- Specialized projects: domain experts (most have a master's or PhD)
Pay, in their words
- Entry level $15 to $30/hr; domain experts $60 to $100+/hr source
How you're paid
Twice a month, through Payoneer or PayPal
Time
No fixed hours; expert projects estimate 10 to 20 hours a week
Where
Most countries, apart from sanctioned ones and a few it can't pay
Toloka's own tasker app has moved to Mindrift
Prolific
Prolific, founded at Oxford University
What you do
- Paid research studies
- AI tasks: reviewing AI answers and fact-checking
- Expert studies: code review and red-teaming
Who they look for
- Adults in 50+ supported countries
- AI tasks and expert studies are by invitation
Pay, in their words
- At least $8 (£6) an hour source
- Prolific recommends researchers pay domain experts $30 to $100/hr source
How you're paid
PayPal, once you have earned $6 (£6)
Time
Study by study; Prolific says it isn't meant to be a full-time job
Where
Most OECD countries, including the US, UK and Canada; there is a waitlist
Human Frontier Collective (Scale AI)
Scale AI
What you do
- Design hard problems and datasets to test AI
- Evaluate unreleased models
- Research and advisory work with AI labs
Who they look for
- Researchers, industry leaders and senior practitioners
- Tracks in math, CS and ML, physics, chemistry, law, biology, medicine, finance and software engineering
Pay, in their words
- $80 to $120/hr, with more for some projects source
Time
Most fellows spend 10 to 25 hours a week
Where
US, UK and Canada roles; US fellows need US work authorization
Remotasks
Run by Scale AI
What you do
- Label images
- Transcribe audio
- Annotate data
Pay, in their words
- Current listings: up to $17/hr (writing, Nigeria) and $9 to $16/hr (video description, Philippines) source
How you're paid
Weekly, by PayPal or AirTM
Not taking new sign-ups from the US; it sends US applicants to Outlier
Pay, requirements and payment methods are quoted from each platform's own website or help center, checked October 18, 2026. They change often and can depend on your country and skills, so check the platform's site before you apply.
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Every role links to the company's own job page, where you read the full posting and apply. "No coding" is based on the job title, so read the posting to be sure. Pay is what the company publishes, where it does: a yearly salary for staff roles, an hourly or per-task rate for training work.
What these platforms say about scams
- Outlier: Outlier's rules ban buying or selling accounts and pretending to be Outlier staff, and pay must go to an account in your own name. source
- DataAnnotation: DataAnnotation says it will never ask you for money, and the only way to apply is its official sign-up flow. source
- DataAnnotation: It warns that people use its name to commit fraud: do not engage with direct messages from outside its official channels. source
- Mercor: Mercor says it never asks for any payment or fee, and messages from any other domain are not official. source
- Mercor: Enter personal or banking details only on its own portal, work.mercor.com. source
- Handshake AI: Handshake says it never asks for sensitive information by text, email, phone, social media or WhatsApp; ID and payment details go only through its partners Persona and Stripe. source
- Turing: Turing's own advice: real hiring managers email from the company's domain, and be wary of any job that asks you to pay to work. source
- Appen (CrowdGen): Appen says it never asks you to pay to apply or start, never sends a check in advance, and official emails come only from its own domain. source
- TELUS Digital AI Community: TELUS Digital says it never asks for payment or banking information during the application, and its recruiters use only its own email domains. source
- Mindrift (Toloka): Mindrift says the only way to work with it is through an account on its platform, and joining is always free. source
- Prolific: Prolific says its messages never ask for login details, ID documents or personal information, and impostors pose as its staff on Telegram and WhatsApp. source
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AI training jobs vs. regular AI jobs
Both can be remote, and both can be contract work. The difference is who you work for and what you do all day.
- Regular AI jobs are staff roles at AI companies like Anthropic, OpenAI or ElevenLabs: engineering, sales, support, policy. You apply with a resume and interview over several weeks, and most roles are full-time with a salary. Our remote AI jobs board lists them.
- AI training jobs are paid by the hour through platforms like Outlier, DataAnnotation, Mercor and Alignerr, which supply people to the labs that build AI models. You take an online test instead of an interview, choose your own hours, and work project by project.
That is why this page compares the platforms first. The real choice is which platform to join; after that, you pick projects inside it.
What the work looks like
- Rating answers: compare two chatbot replies and explain which is better and why.
- Writing: write prompts, and the ideal answer a model should give.
- Checking: fact-check answers, or test and fix code a model wrote.
- Red-teaming: try to get a model to break its safety rules, so the lab can fix it.
- Expert reviews: doctors, lawyers, accountants and scientists grade answers in their own field. This pays the most.
- Language and voice work: translation, transcription and recordings in your native language.
Who gets hired, and what it pays
General writing and rating work is open to strong writers, often with a degree, and pays the least. Platforms pay much more for coding, a professional license, or a master’s or PhD in a technical field. Each platform card above quotes pay from the platform’s own site. For example, DataAnnotation lists general projects at $25 to $50+ an hour and coding at $40 to $150+, and Mercor says its average contracted rate is $110 an hour.
How to get started
- Join two or three platforms that match your background. Projects start and stop without much notice, so one platform is rarely steady work on its own.
- Treat the assessment like a job interview. Most platforms decide from one test, and some don’t let you retake it.
- Apply only on the platform’s own site. Every “Official site” button above goes there.
- Expect gaps between projects, and don’t count on a fixed income in the first few months.
- Keep records for taxes. Most platforms pay you as an independent contractor, so nothing is held back for tax.
- Get new roles by email. The sign-up at the top of this page sends new AI training roles every Monday.
Is it legit? Our platform guides
We checked the platforms people ask about most against their own terms, court records and news reports:
- Is Outlier AI legit? Run by Scale AI and pays weekly; a wage lawsuit is close to a $12.5 million settlement.
- Is DataAnnotation legit? Run by Surge AI and pays by PayPal; you get one try at its starter assessment.
- Is Mercor legit? A $10 billion startup that pays weekly; it had a data breach in 2026.
How to spot a fake AI training job
“AI training” is one of the most common lures in job scams right now. A real platform:
- never asks you to pay for training or equipment, or to deposit money to “unlock” tasks;
- doesn’t hire you over WhatsApp, Telegram or a text from a stranger;
- pays you through its own dashboard, never with a check you deposit and send money back from.
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Frequently asked questions
What is an AI training job?
Paid work that helps improve AI models: rating and writing chatbot answers, checking facts and code, or reviewing answers in your own field. Most of it is remote, hourly contract work through platforms such as Outlier, DataAnnotation, Mercor and Alignerr.
Are AI training jobs the same as remote AI jobs?
They overlap, but they aren't the same. Remote AI jobs are usually salaried staff roles at AI companies, hired through interviews. AI training jobs are hourly contract work through training platforms, usually hired through an online test, with hours you choose.
How much do AI training jobs pay?
It depends on your skills and the platform. General writing and rating work pays the least; coding, licensed professions and advanced degrees pay the most. The rates on this page are quoted from each platform's own site, for example $25 to $50+ an hour for DataAnnotation's general projects.
Can I do AI training work part-time?
Yes. Most platforms let you choose your hours and many have no minimum, though some projects ask for 10 to 20 or more hours a week. Work comes project by project, so hours can drop when a project ends.
Do I need a degree or coding skills?
Not always. Many platforms want a degree for general work, and the best-paid projects need coding, a professional license or an advanced degree. Some work needs no experience, such as Prolific studies and many TELUS Digital rater roles.
Are AI training jobs legit?
The platforms on this page are real companies that pay their workers, but scammers copy their names. A real platform never charges you to start, and you apply only on its own site. If an offer came by text or a chat app, check it with our free job scam checker first.