All gigs · Write and rate AI answers · checked 2026-11-09
Is Prolific legit?
The best-rated platform in this group: 4.5 on Trustpilot from about 15,800 reviews, with frequent praise for fair, upfront pay and fast PayPal cash-outs. Main gripes are the sign-up waitlist, studies filling fast, and accounts put on hold without a clear reason.
Does it pay? yes, widely reported
What you do
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.
The details
- Pay
- From $8/hr
As published: Researchers must pay at least £6.00 GBP / $8.00 USD per hour (absolute minimum); Prolific recommends £9.00 / $12.00 per hour or more. Pay is per study, shown before you start. - Open in
- 52 countries, including the US
Based on where you live, not nationality. New sign-ups go to a waitlist; invites depend on demographic demand and can take hours to months. Other countries can join the waitlist. - You need
- computer or smartphone (each study states the device)
- Paid by
- PayPal · Cash out on demand once your balance reaches £6/$6; once every 24 hours (72-hour gap for your first four cash-outs). Rewards become available after researcher approval (up to 22 days).
- Minimum age
- 18+
- Company
- Prolific (UK)
- Backers
- Raised £25M ($32M) in July 2023, co-led by Partech and Oxford Science Enterprises (TechCrunch)
What we couldn’t confirm
Minimum is stated in two currencies (£6 GBP or $8 USD/hr); USD recorded here. Trustpilot does not confirm that reviewers are participants. The exact legal entity name was not confirmed on pages opened.
We are not affiliated with Prolific. Pay and availability change; confirm on the official site before you start. Never pay to get work.
Sources
- https://www.prolific.com/participants
- https://app.prolific.com/register/participant/waitlist/
- https://participant-help.prolific.com/en/article/dc132c
- https://participant-help.prolific.com/en/article/628d72
- https://participant-help.prolific.com/en/article/821632
- https://participant-help.prolific.com/en/article/3bfbb2
- https://researcher-help.prolific.com/en/article/9cd998
- https://www.trustpilot.com/review/prolific.com
- https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/11/prolific-raises-32m-to-train-and-stress-test-ai-models-using-its-network-of-120k-people/
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