By Mufy Pachorawala, founder of getAIwork · Last updated: October 21, 2026
As of October 21, 2026, the getAIwork board tracks 1,684 live, human-approved AI work listings, of which 547 (32%) are platform programmes with recurring intake. Open-signup platforms currently include Prolific, CrowdGen, Toloka and TELUS Digital AI; DataAnnotation, Outlier and Alignerr accept with screening; Mercor, Micro1 and Handshake AI recruit credentialed specialists. The board figures on this page are refreshed every morning; platform statuses carry their own check dates.
Listen to this article, about 11 minutes. A synthetic voice reads the article and announces each section title as it begins; tables are read row by row and the questions at the end are left out.
Recorded 15 October 2026 from the article as published that day. Press a chapter to jump there; the highlighted line is what is playing. A play button sits beside every section heading, and once you scroll past this player a bar at the bottom of the screen keeps the controls in reach. Tap or click any sentence to hear the reading start from there.
On this page: fifteen platforms in three tables, each status dated to the day it was checked against the platform’s own page, what the gate actually is, and pay only as listed; the board’s live counts, refreshed every morning; what closed or paused, so you stop waiting for it; and the order to apply in, with a chooser that restates it for what you already have.
Think you already know this? Five questions, one minute.
Every answer is on this page. Answer from what you know now; the page fills in the rest, and nothing here predicts whether any platform will accept you.
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1. What does open intake mean on this page?
It says nothing about how much work there is. Availability is set by client demand, which is why every status on this page carries the date it was checked. Read the section
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2. What separates the screened platforms from the open ones?
DataAnnotation runs a one shot Starter Assessment, Outlier adds ID verification and unpaid project assessments, Alignerr screens per project. None of them charges a fee, and an upfront fee is the reliable scam signal. Read the section
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3. Where do the highest listed rates on this page sit?
Mercor, Micro1 and Handshake AI list the top of the range. Listed is the operative word: the figures are what the platforms publish or workers report, set per project, and never a promise. Read the section
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4. What happened to Remotasks?
Sepal AI is the one Mercor acquired, in February 2026. Knowing what not to wait for saves more time than any listing. Read the section
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5. How does a listing reach the getAIwork board?
Platforms are never paid for placement and pay figures are quoted only as listed. The counts at the top of this page are read from the board every morning. Read the section
Key facts
- 1,684 live listings are on the getAIwork board as of October 21, 2026, filtered from 46,540 posts screened to date
- 547 (32%) are recurring-intake platform programmes, the kind this page tracks
- 222 listings (13%) are explicitly beginner-friendly and 521 (31%) are fully remote
- Intake status changes weekly: platforms open and close cohorts with client demand, so every status below carries its check date
- None of the platforms listed here charges workers anything. Fee-charging sites are excluded from the board by rule
Which AI training platforms have open intake right now?
Checked August 22, 2026. Open intake means you can sign up today without a selective gate and reach paid work as availability allows:
| Platform | Status checked Oct 15, 2026 | Entry | Listed or reported pay |
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| Prolific | Waitlist sign up, then an invite once tasks are available (participant page read Oct 1, 2026) | Demographic screeners per study | $8 to $20+/hr reported; platform minimum enforced |
| CrowdGen by Appen | Open registration worldwide | Per-project guideline exams | Low single digits to low teens per hour by geography |
| Toloka | Open signup through Mindrift: the Toloka contributor page redirected to mindrift.ai when read on Sep 25, 2026 | Tiered tasks; expert listings gated by skill checks | $9 to $90/hr listed across tiers |
| TELUS Digital AI | Open applications | Application, assessment, paid training | $14 to $22/hr reported for US roles; lower elsewhere |
| Stellar AI | Closing: its own site said on Oct 15, 2026 that it is winding down annotation work; existing accounts can still log in to check balances and request remaining payments | Sign-up into pool; projects activate in waves | $25+/hr listed; minimal independent track record yet |
Which platforms are accepting, with screening?
These were actively onboarding in August 2026, behind qualification gates that reject silently:
| Platform | Status checked Oct 15, 2026 | The gate | Listed or reported pay |
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| DataAnnotation | Accepting in 6 English-speaking countries | One-shot Starter Assessment; company claims 2.6% acceptance | $25 to $100+/hr listed by track |
| Outlier (Scale AI) | Onboarding coding, STEM, languages, generalist | ID verification plus unpaid project assessments | $12 to $75/hr reported by domain |
| Alignerr (Labelbox) | Live project listings, apply per project | Persona ID checks, per-project screening | $15 to $150/hr listed span |
| Welocalize | Role-based openings as posted: 72 rater titles among 386 Welo Data AI Services postings on its Lever board on Oct 15, 2026, the newest four (Translation Quality Rater roles in Spain) added that day; careers.welocalize.com redirects to the company’s about page | Conventional hiring per role | $14 to $19/hr listed for ads-rater roles |
| Invisible Technologies | Expert work now recruits through Meridial by Invisible at meridial.ai; the join us page lists company staff roles | Competitive role applications | $5 to $200/hr across listings |
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Which platforms recruit credentialed specialists?
The highest listed rates of 2026 sit here, behind AI interviews and credential checks:
| Platform | Status checked Oct 15, 2026 | Who they want | Listed or reported pay |
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| Mercor | Actively listing roles; matching is demand-driven | Licensed professionals, senior engineers, researchers | $63 to $120/hr listed roles |
| Micro1 | Open applications across engineering, finance, healthcare, legal and more, each through its AI interview | Engineers, ML practitioners, technical specialists | $40 to $100+/hr reported; higher for rare domains |
| Handshake AI (MOVE) | Open fellowship sign up on its own page; listed roles run from associate’s degree to postdoc | Grad students, PhDs, postdocs | $10 to $125/hr reported span across projects |
| Turing | Open developer vetting | Developers wanting LLM training work | $15 to $40/hr reported for training tasks |
| Pareto.AI | Selective, waitlist-like | Experienced AI trainers | $40 to $100 per task or hour reported |
Expert programmes fill in waves. The quiz flags which current listings want exactly your credential or skill.
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What closed, paused or wound down recently?
Knowing what not to wait for saves more time than any listing. Remotasks remains online but is closed to new sign-ups in many regions and redirects applicants to Outlier, its sibling under Scale AI. xAI’s tutor programme cut around 500 generalist annotators in September 2025 and was reported paused for new tutors in mid-2026. Sepal AI was acquired by Mercor in February 2026, and its expert hub effectively routes into Mercor’s ecosystem. And across the industry, mass generalist writing programmes shrank through late 2025; the durable demand moved to coding, specialist evaluation and language work, which is visible in the technical share of our own board.
How should you use this list?
Three moves, in order. Pick one open-intake platform and start it today, because its availability covers everyone else’s review delays. Add one screened platform whose gate you can pass properly this week, using our reviews (DataAnnotation, Outlier, Alignerr) to prepare for the specific assessment. If you hold a credential or senior skill, add exactly one specialist application (Mercor vs Micro1 settles which). Then follow the volume, not the brand: queues move weekly, and the workers who sustain this category move with them.
Which table should you start with?
Pick the line that describes what you already have. Each answer restates the three moves on this page; nothing here is scored, stored or sent anywhere.
Start in the open intake table: Prolific or CrowdGen today, because their availability covers everyone else’s review delays. Then one screened attempt, DataAnnotation if your country is eligible, prepared with the review linked in the table rather than attempted cold. The specialist table is not for now, and no platform on this page charges a fee at any stage.
Open intake for immediate availability, plus one screened platform whose gate you can pass properly this week: DataAnnotation, Outlier or Alignerr. Read the gate column before the pay column; the gate decides whether the rate ever applies to you, and every rate is as listed, per project.
Add exactly one specialist application to the two moves above: Mercor or Micro1, which our comparison settles, or Handshake AI if you are inside a university channel. Their listed rates sit behind credential checks and AI interviews and are set per project, so treat them as the top of a range, not as an offer.
This restates the order on this page. It stores nothing and predicts nothing about acceptance or earnings.
How is this data compiled?
The getAIwork board continuously scans AI work sources; 46,540 posts had been screened as of October 21, 2026. Automated checks remove expired, duplicate and fee-charging posts, and a human approves every listing that goes live. Of the 1,684 currently live, 547 are recurring-intake platform programmes, 222 are marked beginner-friendly and 521 are fully remote. Intake statuses in this article are point-in-time observations on their stated check date, refreshed every morning alongside our live job market statistics. Platforms are never paid for placement, and pay figures are quoted only as listed by the source.
Update log
October 15, 2026: Rechecked every platform status against its own page or board; two changed: Stellar AI says it is closing, and the Welocalize rater count was recounted.
October 8, 2026: Rechecked every platform status against its own page or board; one changed, Welocalize, recounted on its Lever board.
October 1, 2026: Rechecked every platform status against its own page or job board; five changed: Prolific now runs a waitlist, Invisible’s expert work moved to Meridial, Welocalize’s careers address moved to its Lever board, Micro1 widened beyond engineers and Handshake AI opened direct sign up.
September 25, 2026: Platform names in the tables now link to each platform’s own page, the xAI and Sepal AI events carry their press sources, and the Toloka contributor page was found redirecting to Mindrift, so its status says so. The page also gained the reading tools, the closures timeline, the five question quiz and two photographs.
October 21, 2026: Board figures refreshed from stats.json: 1,684 live listings, 547 platform programmes (32%), 222 beginner-friendly, 521 fully remote, 46,540 screened to date. Platform intake statuses are as checked on the dates shown in each table.
August 22, 2026: First edition. 1,234 live listings, 630 platform programmes; statuses checked for all 15 platforms named above.
Statuses here are weekly snapshots. The board updates daily, and the quiz matches you in two minutes.
See the live board →Frequently asked questions
Which AI training platforms are accepting applicants right now?
As checked on October 15, 2026: open intake at Prolific (waitlist), CrowdGen, Toloka, TELUS Digital AI and Stellar AI; screened intake at DataAnnotation, Outlier, Alignerr, Welocalize and Invisible; specialist recruitment at Mercor, Micro1, Handshake AI, Turing and Pareto.AI (waitlist). Statuses are rechecked weekly against each platform’s own page, and the tables above carry the detail and the listed pay for each.
How current is this information?
Platform statuses were last checked on October 15, 2026 against each platform’s own page and are rechecked weekly. The board figures on this page are refreshed every morning from the getAIwork board, which held 1,684 live listings on October 20, 2026 and deletes filled listings daily. If you are reading long after those dates, the board itself is the live version of this list.
Which platform should a complete beginner start with?
Start with CrowdGen, Toloka, TELUS Digital AI or Stellar AI, taking sign ups at the October 15, 2026 check, plus one properly prepared DataAnnotation attempt if you are in an eligible country. 222 of the 1,684 live listings on the board were marked beginner-friendly on October 20, 2026, and our no-experience guide covers the full path.
Which platform has the highest pay?
The highest listed figures sit on specialist platforms: Mercor roles at $63 to $120 per hour, Micro1 reports beyond $100 for rare skills, and Alignerr ceilings up to $150. All are listed or reported rates behind selective screening, set per project, and never guaranteed.
Do any of these platforms charge workers?
No. Every platform on this page charges applicants nothing at any stage, and fee-charging sites are excluded from the getAIwork board by rule. An upfront fee is the most reliable scam signal in this category; our JobPeak investigation shows the checklist in action.
Why is a platform I know missing from this list?
Either its intake was closed at the check date, it failed board screening, or it is too new for any independent track record. The board adds platforms as they pass screening, so a missing name is a current status rather than a permanent judgment.
How do you verify these listings?
Automated scanning filters expired, duplicate and fee-charging posts, then a human approves each listing before it goes live; 46,540 posts had been screened as of October 20, 2026. Platforms never pay for placement, and pay is quoted only as the source lists it.
Finished the page? The same five questions from the top, to see what stuck.
Platform statuses and listed pay change without notice. Pay figures are quoted only as listed by the poster on the date shown and are never a promise of earnings. This page was verified on the date shown and is rechecked on the weekly refresh.
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Mufy Pachorawala · Founder, getAIwork
My AI scans thousands of AI-job posts (46,540 screened so far) and I personally approve every listing before it reaches the board. I write these articles by the same rules: pay quoted only as listed, and no income promises. Read our editorial rules.
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