# Surge AI - data-work program facts

## In short

Surge AI is a paid data-work platform operated by Surge AI Inc.. Applications were open when we last checked it on 2026-10-03. Surge AI advertises no rate on the pages we verified; no independent pay report is recorded yet.

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Applications | open |
| Work types | annotation, expert, rating |
| Countries | not verified |
| Payment methods | not verified |
| Legitimacy check | verified |
| Last verified | 2026-10-03 |

- Operator: Surge AI Inc.
- Site: https://www.surgehq.ai/
- Apply: https://surgehq.ai/workforce
- Application status: open
- Work types: annotation, expert, rating
- Legitimacy: verified
- Verified: 2026-10-03T00:50:01Z

## Pay: claimed vs reported

- Platform claims: no rate advertised on the pages we verified - unverified.
- Independently reported: no linkable public pay reports recorded yet - unverified.

## Legitimacy evidence

- Encyclopedia entry: Surge Labs Inc., doing business as Surge AI, is an American multinational data annotation company based in San Francisco, California. Surge focuses on reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), RL environments, and annotating language data. (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surge_AI)
- Business Insider, 2025-09-25: Surge AI, founded in 2020, runs the gig platform Data Annotation, where it says it pays 1 million gig workers to train AI models and advertises rates of over $40 an hour. Its customers include Anthropic. (source: https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-training-companies-startups-2025-9)

## Sources

- https://surgehq.ai/ - accessed 2026-08-20
- https://surgehq.ai/workforce - accessed 2026-10-03

## Are applications open at Surge AI?

As of 2026-10-03, Surge AI applications are open; the status has read open since 2026-09-06 and is re-checked daily. Apply: https://surgehq.ai/workforce

## What kind of work does Surge AI offer?

Surge AI lists annotation, expert, rating work.

## How can I be alerted when Surge AI changes application status?

Bikoosh DataWork Watch re-checks Surge AI every day. Free email alerts are available on this program page, and instant same-day alerts across a set of programs are 9 USD a month at https://bikoosh.com/datawork/activate.

## Change history

- 2026-08-19 record: added from the program's own page
- 2026-08-21 source page check refined
- 2026-09-05 apply link updated
- 2026-09-06 application status changed to open
- 2026-09-10 source records added (2 entries)

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