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What AI data buyers publish they pay

Updated October 25, 2026 · How we research

Most buyer programs that pay companies for internal records publish a range, often from about $100K into the low millions for an established company. These are the buyers' own figures, labelled by them as typical, indicative or illustrative, and none is an offer.

Published payout ranges by buyerEach bar spans the low and high figure a buyer publishes, on a log scale from $10K to $10M. These are the buyers' own figures, not offers.$10K$100K$1M$10MMode$100K–$5MHandshake AI$100K–$4MTelegraph Lab$100K–$4MPolyshares$100K–$2Mmicro1$100K–$2MMercor$20K–$1.5MOoak Data$20K–$1M
  • Mode$100K–$5M
  • Handshake AI$100K–$4M
  • Telegraph Lab$100K–$4M
  • Polyshares$100K–$2M
  • micro1$100K–$2M
  • Mercor$20K–$1.5M
  • Ooak Data$20K–$1M
Each buyer's own published range as of October 2026, on a log scale. Not offers. Labels such as "indicative" are the buyer's. What a given company receives depends on its records and the buyer's review.
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BuyerPublished rangeBuyer's label
Mode$100K–$5Mindicative
Handshake AI$100K–$4Mheadline (buyer's own figure, not an offer)
Telegraph Lab$100K–$4Mtarget
Polyshares$100K–$2Mtypical
micro1$100K–$2Mtiered (open-ended '+')
Mercor$20K–$1.5Mby industry
Ooak Data$20K–$1Mceiling

How to read these ranges

  • They are marketing figures. Buyers set them; a range tells you what a buyer is willing to say in public, not what you will be offered.
  • Labels matter. "Illustrative" and "indicative" mean examples. Some ranges are per period or per delivery rather than a total; the buyer profile says so where it is stated.
  • Size and depth drive the number. Headcount, years of history, how many systems hold the work, and how complete those records are.
  • Terms change the value. Exclusive deals, revenue shares and payment timing make two equal headline numbers worth different amounts. See comparing offers.

Worked examples

Illustrative only. Not offers, not predictions, and not based on any real company.

CompanyWhat it hasWhere it sits against published ranges
35-person accounting firm, 8 yearsEmail, a practice-management system, QuickBooks. Client files excluded.Meets most size floors; the firm-operations records left after exclusions are narrower, which tends to point to the lower part of published ranges.
120-person 3PL, 12 yearsTeams, a WMS, ticketing, ERP, years of exception handling. Client data held under contract excluded unless permitted.Several systems and long history; rights in customer data are the main limit on scope.
400-person distributor, 20 yearsEmail, Salesforce, NetSuite, Jira and shared drives across several sites.Scope that published ranges describe at their upper end; worth a call and several offers.
15-person agency that closed this yearSlack, Drive and project tools, complete.Below some size floors, but several buyers publish no minimum and take records from closed companies.

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