Trainwage

All gigs · Expert gigs · checked 2026-11-09

Is micro1 legit?

Well-funded and very large; Trustpilot is 4.7 from 11,000+ reviews, though most praise the AI interview rather than pay. Support is called slow by some. MIT Technology Review raised privacy questions about chore footage: workers don't know how it is stored or shared and micro1 declined to say whether deletion requests are honoured.

Does it pay? unclear

What you do

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.

The details

Pay
$6–400/hr
As published: Opportunities portal (380 roles on 2026-11-09) shows hourly ranges from $6/h (At-Home Video Recorder, LATAM) to $400/h (attorney and research-scientist roles). US At-Home Video Recorder (posted Oct 19, 2026): $15 per hour of recorded video that meets project guidelines, plus a $20 head-strap bonus after 20 hours.
Open in
worldwide
Hires globally except Afghanistan, Belarus, China, Cuba, DR Congo, Hong Kong, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Macao, Myanmar, North Korea, Russia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela, Ukraine, Yemen and Ethiopia. Each role sets its own countries; the US home-video role excludes AZ, CA, CO, CT, HI, ME, NJ, OR, RI, WA (and DC).
You need
computer, smartphone (filming: iPhone 12+, Pixel 6–9 or Galaxy S21+), head strap/mount (filming)
Paid by
Deel · semi-monthly: work 1st–15th paid ~20th, 16th–month end paid ~5th
Minimum age
18+
Company
micro1, Inc. (San Francisco)
Backers
$35M Series A at a $500M valuation led by 01 Advisors (Sept 2025, Dataconomy); Forbes (Sept 2026) reported a $100M+ round at a $4B valuation, unconfirmed by micro1.

Red flags

What we couldn’t confirm

Age 18 comes from the website privacy policy ('minors under 18 not permitted to use the Site'); candidate/contractor terms were not read. Payout via Deel is from micro1's contractor library; which withdrawal options Deel offers per country was not checked. The portal pay range was read from micro1's public job-listing feed that powers the opportunities page.

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