DataWork Watch · live data · CC BY 4.0
Paid AI data-collection programs - live tracker
Which programs are open, where, and are they legit - as structured, sourced data. Every row shows when we last read the program's own page; every verdict carries cited evidence. Machine-readable at data.json · changes feed at changes.xml · open applications at open-now.
Filters: data annotation · coding & code review · expert / domain specialist · other tasks · rating & evaluation · transcription · voice & speech ·
| Program | Work | Status | Legit | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alignerr Labelbox | expert, annotation, coding | open | unreviewed | |
| Appen Appen Limited | annotation, rating, voice, transcription | open | unreviewed | |
| Centific Honeybee Centific | annotation, rating | open | unreviewed | |
| Clickworker clickworker GmbH | annotation, voice, transcription, other | open | unreviewed | |
| CloudFactory CloudFactory Ltd | annotation | open | unreviewed | |
| CrowdWorks CrowdWorks Inc. (KR) | annotation, rating | unknown | unreviewed | |
| DataAnnotation DataAnnotation Tech | annotation, coding, expert | open | verified | |
| DataForce TransPerfect | voice, annotation, transcription | open | unreviewed | |
| Deccan AI Experts (formerly Soul AI) Deccan AI | expert, coding | waitlist | unreviewed | |
| Defined.ai (Neevo) DefinedCrowd Corp. | voice, annotation, transcription | open | unreviewed | |
| e2f e2f Inc. | annotation, transcription, voice | unknown | unreviewed | |
| GoTranscript GoTranscript | transcription | open | unreviewed | |
| Handshake AI Handshake | expert | open | unreviewed | |
| iMerit iMerit Technology | annotation, expert | open | unreviewed | |
| Innodata Innodata Inc. | annotation, expert | unknown | unreviewed | |
| Invisible Technologies Invisible Technologies Inc. | expert, annotation | open | unreviewed | |
| Karya Karya | voice, transcription | unknown | unreviewed | |
| LXT LXT AI Inc. | voice, annotation, transcription | open | unreviewed | |
| Mercor Mercor Inc. | expert, coding | open | verified | |
| Micro1 Micro1 Inc. | expert, coding | open | unreviewed | |
| OneForma Centific | annotation, rating, voice, transcription | open | unreviewed | |
| Outlier Smart Ecosystems (Scale AI) | expert, coding, annotation | open | caution | |
| Pareto Pareto AI | expert, annotation | open | unreviewed | |
| Peroptyx Peroptyx | rating | open | unreviewed | |
| Premise Premise Data Corp. | other, rating | open | unreviewed | |
| Prolific Prolific Academic Ltd | rating, other | waitlist | verified | |
| Remotasks Smart Ecosystems (Scale AI) | annotation, rating | open | unreviewed | |
| Respondent Respondent | other | open | unreviewed | |
| Rev Freelancers Rev.com | transcription | waitlist | verified | |
| Sama Samasource Impact Sourcing | annotation | open | verified | |
| Scale AI contributor programs Scale AI Inc. | annotation, expert | unknown | unreviewed | |
| Shaip workforce Shaip | annotation, voice | open | unreviewed | |
| Sigma AI Sigma Technologies Global | annotation, voice, transcription | unknown | unreviewed | |
| Snorkel Expert Network Snorkel AI | expert | open | unreviewed | |
| Surge AI Surge AI Inc. | annotation, expert, rating | open | verified | |
| Toloka Toloka AI BV | annotation, rating | open | unreviewed | |
| TranscribeMe TranscribeMe | transcription | open | unreviewed | |
| Turing Turing Enterprises Inc. | coding, expert | unknown | unreviewed | |
| Twine AI voice & data Twine | voice, video_recording | open | unreviewed | |
| User Interviews User Interviews | other | open | unreviewed | |
| UserTesting UserTesting | other | open | unreviewed | |
| Welocalize Welocalize Inc. | annotation, rating, transcription | open | unreviewed |
Latest changes
- - Handshake AI: 2 independent source(s) added (ledger 166): fetched under the honest UA with robots enforced, then confirmed by two independent verifier lenses on their own fetches; legit_status unchanged (no source yet establishes paid contributor work)
- - Remotasks: 1 independent source(s) added (ledger 166): fetched under the honest UA with robots enforced, then confirmed by two independent verifier lenses on their own fetches; legit_status unchanged (a sibling program of the same operator carries a caution verdict)
- - Rev Freelancers: 2 independent source(s) added (ledger 166): fetched under the honest UA with robots enforced, then confirmed by two independent verifier lenses on their own fetches; legit_status unreviewed -> verified: sources from 2 independent publishers, one establishing paid contributor work
- - Scale AI contributor programs: 1 independent source(s) added (ledger 166): fetched under the honest UA with robots enforced, then confirmed by two independent verifier lenses on their own fetches; legit_status unchanged (a sibling program of the same operator carries a caution verdict)
- - Toloka: 1 independent source(s) added (ledger 166): fetched under the honest UA with robots enforced, then confirmed by two independent verifier lenses on their own fetches; legit_status unchanged (no source yet establishes paid contributor work)
- - Appen: second independent source added (ledger 165 part 2): fetched under the honest UA with robots enforced, passage re-confirmed by an adversarial verifier on its own fetch; legit_status unchanged: the source establishes a real company but not paid contributor work
- - DataForce: second independent source added (ledger 165 part 2): fetched under the honest UA with robots enforced, passage re-confirmed by an adversarial verifier on its own fetch; legit_status unchanged: the source establishes a real company but not paid contributor work
- - Innodata: second independent source added (ledger 165 part 2): fetched under the honest UA with robots enforced, passage re-confirmed by an adversarial verifier on its own fetch; legit_status unchanged: the source establishes a real company but not paid contributor work
Compare side by side
Appen vs Welocalize · Defined.ai (Neevo) vs LXT · OneForma vs Welocalize · Centific Honeybee vs Remotasks · Centific Honeybee vs Toloka · Defined.ai (Neevo) vs Shaip workforce · iMerit vs Pareto · Remotasks vs Toloka · Centific Honeybee vs CloudFactory · Centific Honeybee vs Peroptyx. Each comparison shows what both programs' own pages said when we last checked, next to each other.
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Methodology
Every fact on this page is either backed by a cited source (with the date we accessed it) or explicitly marked unknown/unverified - we never fill a field we could not read. "Verified" on a row means we fetched the program's own page on the date shown and read the status there. A daily checker re-reads each program's application page (one polite request per domain per day); ambiguous changes go to a human review queue and are never auto-published. Legitimacy verdicts are manual-only and evidence-backed: verified requires positive payout or registration evidence from cited sources; caution/avoid require cited findings; everything else stays unreviewed. Corrections: operators and workers can dispute any fact via [email protected]; corrections are applied manually and logged in the program's public change history. Last crawl: .
DataWork Watch is an independent, sourced dataset - not affiliated with any listed operator. Every fact carries its source and a verified-at date; unverified fields say so. Not legal or financial advice. Dataset licensed CC BY 4.0 - cite bikoosh.com/datawork.
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