Protege alternatives for licensing real-world data

About Protege

Protege licenses real-world data from data holders to AI model builders, from startups to frontier labs, across healthcare, video, audio and speech, spatial and physical data and other domains. Its site covers pre-training, post-training and evaluation data, and does not publish payouts, revenue share, exclusivity, fees or payment timing for data partners.

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How do the Protege alternatives compare?

The Protege alternatives below are compared with Protege on the terms our directory tracks. "Not published" means the company's own pages do not say.

The first row is Protege. Published payouts are ceilings or estimates, not quotes.

The Protege alternatives

1. Licensing agent

   Troveo

   Best for companies that want revenue shared on every sale rather than a single payment

   Troveo is a licensing agent that licenses company data to AI buyers on the seller's behalf and shares revenue on every sale rather than paying once. Its business data page reports more than $20 million paid to licensors and more than 40 active buyers, says full-company deals start at six figures, charges no fees and asks for time-limited exclusivity.

   What it buys

   Licenses data from chat, email, documents, work and knowledge tools, CRM, finance, and data and code platforms

   Published payout

   Typical full-company deals start at six figures. More than $20 million paid to licensors to date (Troveo figure)

   Size requirement

   Not published. Its estimator uses headcount (20 to 1,000 or more) and years trading (under 3 to 15 or more)

   Exclusivity

   Time-limited and has to be earned, with exit terms in the agreement

   Fee to seller

   None. No fees, setup costs or deductions from payouts

   Payment timing

   Revenue share on every sale. Timing set in the agreement, not published

   Read our Troveo profile

2. Data marketplace

   Defined.ai

   Best for AI teams buying or commissioning speech, text, image and multimodal data from vetted partners

   Defined.ai runs an AI data marketplace where enterprises buy or commission speech, text, image, video and multimodal training data, and where vetted partners can sell datasets. Its partnerships page says partners pass an ethical vetting process and only 30% are approved, and it does not publish revenue share, commission, exclusivity or payment timing for sellers.

   What it buys

   Lists speech, text, image, video, music and sound effects, and multimodal datasets from partners

   Published payout

   Not published

   Size requirement

   Not published. Partners pass an ethical vetting process, and Defined.ai says 30% are approved

   Exclusivity

   Not published

   Fee to seller

   Not published

   Payment timing

   Not published

   Read our Defined.ai profile

3. Content licensing platform

   Versos

   Best for video library owners who want archives indexed in place and delivered as datasets

   Versos is a video licensing platform that indexes and enriches video libraries in place and delivers datasets to AI companies and frontier labs. Its homepage publishes no rates, fees, revenue share or exclusivity terms. A Versos blog post reports OpenAI paying $1 to $4 per minute and Adobe about $3 per minute for video, without citing a source for those rates.

   What it buys

   Licenses video archives and libraries, delivered as bespoke datasets

   Published payout

   Not published for Versos. Its blog reports $1 to $4 per minute (OpenAI) and about $3 per minute (Adobe), unsourced

   Size requirement

   Not published

   Exclusivity

   Not published

   Fee to seller

   Not published

   Payment timing

   Not published

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4. Data marketplace

   Opendatabay

   Best for dataset sellers who want free listing and a commission that falls as the sale price rises

   Opendatabay is a marketplace for licensed AI training and fine-tuning datasets, showing 111 licensed data providers and 655 data products on its homepage. Listing is free, its published commission falls from 30% on small sales to 5% on sales above $250,000, and payouts for self-serve sales arrive within 30 days of the end of the month.

   What it buys

   Lists text, image, audio, video, code, agentic trajectories, 3D, tabular, time-series, human feedback and synthetic data

   Published payout

   Seller sets the price and keeps 70% to 95% depending on the sale price

   Size requirement

   Not published

   Exclusivity

   Not published

   Fee to seller

   Free to list. Commission from 30% (sales up to $100) to 5% (sales above $250,000), set per transaction

   Payment timing

   Within 30 days of the end of the month for self-serve sales. Balances under $50 carry forward

   Read our Opendatabay profile

5. Data marketplace

   FileYield

   Best for sellers who want to list free and negotiate price and exclusivity directly with buyers

   FileYield, operated by Dployers LLC, is a brokered marketplace where sellers list AI training datasets free and negotiate price, license type and exclusivity directly with buyers. It does not touch the data, process payments or hold escrow. Its terms say any fees for facilitating connections are disclosed when you list, request or accept a deal.

   What it buys

   Lists datasets across 36 categories and 2,566 data types, from structured records to audio, medical imaging, code and video

   Published payout

   Seller sets the price

   Size requirement

   Not published. Listings are reviewed before going live

   Exclusivity

   Seller chooses: exclusive or non-exclusive, time-limited or perpetual

   Fee to seller

   Free to list. Any facilitation fees are disclosed when you list, request or accept a deal

   Payment timing

   Arranged directly between seller and buyer

   Read our FileYield profile

6. Data broker

   SellMyData

   Best for companies of any headcount that want to pay a commission only when a sale closes

   SellMyData is a broker that de-identifies company data and sells it to AI labs, describing itself as the exchange for AI training data. It sets no minimum headcount, charges nothing upfront, takes a commission only when a sale closes, lets sellers approve every buyer and term, and targets payment within 7 days of a sale closing.

   What it buys

   Messages, code, documents, records and tasks from tools such as Slack, Teams, Gmail, GitHub, Jira, Drive, Notion, Salesforce, HubSpot, QuickBooks and Zendesk

   Published payout

   Not published. Price set by data type, volume, years of history and lab demand, and approved by the seller

   Size requirement

   No minimum headcount

   Exclusivity

   Not published

   Fee to seller

   Nothing upfront. Commission when a sale closes (rate not published)

   Payment timing

   Target of 7 days after a sale closes

   Read our SellMyData profile

7. Independent broker (this site)

   Sell My Data To AI

   Best for companies that want every buyer verified and the success fee agreed in writing before any introduction

   Sell My Data To AI is an independent broker that helps companies license their data to vetted AI buyers, and helps AI teams source rights-cleared training data from vetted sellers.

   Fee to seller

   Sellers pay nothing to be assessed. We charge a success fee only when a deal completes, and the fee is agreed in writing before we introduce you to any buyer.

   Buyer vetting

   Every buyer is verified before they see a sample: company identity, intended use, security and retention commitments, onward transfer limits and, for larger deals, ability to pay.

   Data custody

   We do not take custody of your raw data. Buyers see redacted samples under a mutual NDA, and full data moves only after you sign a license directly with the buyer.

   Your control

   You approve every buyer, every sample and every license term. You can withdraw at any point before signing.

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