If DataAnnotation has gone quiet, rejected you or never replied, there are more than twenty other platforms paying for AI training work. They differ on entry gates, published pay, payout rails and where they accept people from. Here they are grouped by who they suit, with the four names that turn out to be the same company as a platform you already know.
DataAnnotation and Outlier are the two names people weigh most often when they start AI training work. They differ in who they accept, how you get in, how pay is shown and how you are paid. Here is a side-by-side from each platform's own pages, what contributors report about each, and which suits whom.
Five platforms come up again and again in remote AI training work in 2026, and each gates entry, publishes pay and pays out differently. Here is a side-by-side of what Mercor, micro1, Outlier, Alignerr and Handshake AI publish about entry, pay, payouts and eligibility, and which to apply to first depending on who you are.
Every listing shows its pay and who it is open to.