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All gigs · 22 programs

Data annotation jobs

Data annotation means labeling the text, images, audio or chatbot answers that AI learns from. It’s remote, flexible and usually paid per hour or per task. Pay ranges from a few dollars an hour on crowd platforms to $25–50 an hour on writing and rating projects in the US. These are the 22 programs we verified.

Expert gigs

Mercor

Professionals (doctors, lawyers, engineers, finance experts and more) take an AI interview, then are matched to contract projects reviewing AI outputs in their field, writing expert examples and grading quality against standards.

Pay
$60–450/hr
Open in
107 countries, including the US

3 red flags · Checked 2026-11-09

Expert gigs

Alignerr

Subject experts and skilled generalists create training data and grade AI outputs: writing domain prompts and code challenges, evaluating model answers against rubrics, describing images, annotating video and red-teaming.

Pay
$40–150/hr
Open in
worldwide

3 red flags · Checked 2026-11-09

Write and rate AI answers

DataAnnotation

Review, rank and rate chatbot answers against rubrics, fact-check them, and write better responses; coding, STEM, law, finance and medicine tracks do the same with expert or code tasks.

Pay
$25–150/hr
Open in
US, CA, GB, IE, AU, NZ

3 red flags · Checked 2026-11-09

Write and rate AI answers

Mindrift

Write realistic prompts, evaluate and justify ratings of AI answers, and improve responses; open 'all-access' tasks need no application, while specialised projects need domain expertise. Some data-collection tasks (e.g. at-home video) are also listed.

Pay
$15–100/hr
Open in
worldwide

3 red flags · Checked 2026-11-09

Expert gigs

Turing (AGI / LLM trainer roles)

Coders and domain experts (medicine, law, finance, STEM, languages) work as remote contractors on short projects for AI labs. They write and review code tasks, craft prompts and dialogues, and evaluate AI answers against rubrics. Some roles annotate video, for example robot-task clips.

Pay
$15–100/hr
Open in
Talent page says 'Remote-first, global' with experts 'from 140+ countries'.

3 red flags · Checked 2026-11-09

Record your voice

Neevo (Defined.ai crowd platform)

Short paid tasks: check whether audio matches its text, rate audio quality and pronunciation, record yourself reading scripts (some recording jobs need the Neevo phone app), and collect or validate images and video. Some jobs require passing language tests.

Pay
$10–15/hr
Open in
Not stated

3 red flags · Checked 2026-11-09

Write and rate AI answers

Prolific

You take paid online studies posted by researchers and AI teams: questionnaires and decision games, product opinions, and AI studies where you evaluate machine-learning models and their answers. Listed as writing_eval because its AI work is mostly rating model outputs, though most studies are academic or market research.

Pay
From $8/hr
Open in
52 countries, including the US

Checked 2026-11-09

Expert gigs

Meridial (Invisible Technologies)

Domain experts (law, STEM, finance, coding, languages and more) write prompts and reasoning, evaluate and rank AI outputs, design rubrics and tests, and red-team models on per-project contracts. Each engagement is scoped in a Statement of Work that shows its rate and expected length.

Pay
$6–65/hr
Open in
Project availability depends on client needs, expertise and geographic eligibility.

4 red flags · Checked 2026-11-09

Expert gigs

micro1

Experts pass an AI interview (Zara) and are matched to AI-training projects in their field; separately, at-home recorders wear a phone on a head strap and film first-person videos of household chores to train robots.

Pay
$6–400/hr
Open in
worldwide

3 red flags · Checked 2026-11-09

Label data

TELUS Digital AI Community

Part-time remote contractor roles, mostly rating search results, ads and AI-generated answers for accuracy and relevance, or checking map and business data online; a few projects collect selfies and face photos. You pass an open-book qualification exam and ID check, then are paid per completed task.

Pay
$3.5–14/hr
Open in
42 countries, including the US

Checked 2026-11-09

Record your voice

Babel Audio

Have recorded, unscripted conversations (audio or short video calls) with matched strangers on set topics, record voice prompts, or transcribe audio. The recordings are sold as AI speech training data.

Pay
Up to $50 per recorded audio hour
Open in
Project-specific eligibility; the $50/hour video project requires being based in the US or Canada.

2 red flags · Checked 2026-11-09

Film everyday tasks

Claru

Record first-person (egocentric) video of everyday activity, such as household chores, kitchen, garage, garden, office, retail, restaurant or warehouse work, with a smartphone or wearable camera (head-mounted for some projects). Each scene runs about 15–45 minutes and goes into robotics and world-model datasets. The same job board also has annotation, AI-rating and expert review roles.

Pay
$5–15/approved video hour
Open in
US, CA, MX, BR, AR +7 more

Checked 2026-11-09

Label data

Clickworker

Small paid jobs on the web or in the app: AI training microtasks, tagging, web research, surveys, short texts, app testing, and recording audio, photos or short videos with your phone. After passing its assessments you can also reach Microsoft's UHRS task marketplace through your Clickworker account.

Pay
From €1/task
Open in
Says its workforce is located in 136 countries.

Checked 2026-11-09

Film everyday tasks

Contracted AI

You follow in-app prompts to film yourself doing real tasks (home chores, cooking, laundry, trades, salons, farming, delivery and more) from a first-person view, usually with a head mount, and submit the clips for quality review. The Play Store listing says it also routes screen-capture, voice and annotation projects.

Pay
$8–20/approved video hour
Open in
Not stated; site claims a network across 132 countries

2 red flags · Checked 2026-11-09

Label data

CrowdGen by Appen

You apply to individual projects: annotating and classifying content, rating social-media posts or short videos, comparing text-to-speech clips, recording voice prompts, transcribing audio, or filming short clips of yourself moving. Separate expert tracks (law, medicine, finance, linguistics, software) have professionals check and correct AI output after an unpaid qualification step.

Pay
Up to $450/hr
Open in
Appen says its payments platform pays contributors in over 200 countries; rates depend on location.

2 red flags · Checked 2026-11-09

Record your voice

DataForce Community (TransPerfect)

Apply to individual paid projects: onsite or remote voice-recording sessions, listening and rating text-to-speech voices, first-person video of your daily routine filmed with a head-mounted phone, rating tasks and annotation. Each project pays a fixed amount for accepted work.

Pay
Not published
Open in
Each project lists its own country or city.

2 red flags · Checked 2026-11-09

Expert gigs

Handshake AI Fellowship

US-based students, graduates and professionals review and edit AI-generated content, annotate data and suggest better model outputs in their field; a separate Everyday Tasks Video Contributor role films first-person videos of household chores with a head-mounted phone.

Pay
Up to $150/hr
Open in
US

3 red flags · Checked 2026-11-09

Expert gigs

Human Frontier Collective (Scale AI)

PhD-level researchers, professors and senior professionals are matched to projects from Scale's partner labs. They design hard domain problems and datasets to evaluate AI models, build RL environments, and can co-author research papers with Scale's research team.

Pay
Not published
Open in
US, GB, CA

Checked 2026-11-09

Photos and selfies

Kled

In the Kled iPhone app, pick paid tasks from a feed: photograph objects from several angles, film yourself doing everyday activities, speak in your native language, or label images and rate AI output. You can also upload existing photos and videos from your camera roll. Accepted submissions are licensed to AI companies for training.

Pay
Not published
Open in
not stated

2 red flags · Checked 2026-11-09

Label data

OneForma

You create a profile and get matched to projects: labeling images and text, judging AI outputs, transcribing audio or video, translating, or collecting data such as voice recordings, photos and videos. Some studies are in person, like a 3D home capture in Seattle or a movement study in Las Vegas.

Pay
Not published
Open in
Says it pays experts in 100+ countries.

Checked 2026-11-09

Write and rate AI answers

Outlier

Write hard prompts with correct answers, build grading rubrics, and rate and rank AI model responses in your field. Some roles also rate AI voice, image and video outputs.

Pay
Not published
Open in
116 countries, including the US

3 red flags · Checked 2026-11-09

Expert gigs

Snorkel AI Expert Community

People with graduate-level expertise write hard questions and tasks that stump frontier AI models, with worked solutions and grading rubrics. They also review other experts' submissions and compare AI outputs against criteria.

Pay
$63–410/task
Open in
US (14 US states)

2 red flags · Checked 2026-11-09

What to expect

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