AI training data providers
AI training data providers supply labs with produced expert data, evaluation sets and — increasingly — licensed company archives. The ten providers below are the names buyers compare most often. Published payout ranges are shown only where the provider publishes them; “not published” is stated plainly rather than guessed.
| Provider | Focus | Published company payout |
|---|---|---|
| Scale AI | Data services / partnerships | $10K–$1M+ illustrative per partnership (published) |
| Mercor | Expert data + company records | $20K–$1.5M per company by industry (referral listings) |
| micro1 | Data partnerships | $100K–$500K qualified; $500K–$3M large-scale; $3M+ unique |
| Handshake AI | Data partnerships | $100K–$4M+ (published) |
| Surge AI | Human feedback / RLHF | Not published |
| Turing | Expert / coding data | Not published |
| Innodata | Data engineering / evaluation | Not published |
| Appen | Language / speech data | Not published |
| TELUS Digital | AI data services | Not published |
| iMerit (EXL) | Specialist data services | Not published |
All entries from the providers' own public pages, checked November 2026. Inclusion is not an endorsement and this is not a ranking — order is by reader familiarity. This site's operator is not listed above because it is not a provider: it introduces company owners to providers and labs, and is described on the featured supply channel page.
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Sources — checked November 2026
- Providers' own programme and services pages, checked November 2026.
Cite this entry: Best Data for AI. “AI Training Data Providers — 10 Companies Compared (Checked Nov 2026).” Content reviewed 10 November 2026. Figures on this page are published buyer ranges with sources and check dates shown — they are not offers.