# Who buys company data for AI training

URL: https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers

| Company | Type | Published payout | Size or fit | Exclusivity | Fee to seller |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Adobe Stock](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/adobe-stock) | Direct buyer | Royalty of 33% (non-video) or 35% (video). Firefly bonus varies by contributor and is paid at Adobe's discretion | Any Adobe Stock contributor whose content was considered for training the released Firefly model | Not published | Not published as a fee. The $25 payout minimum drops to $1 for bonus recipients until December 17, 2026 |
| [AfterQuery](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/afterquery) | Training-data company | Not published. Price based on years of history, systems connected, the work captured and how hard it would be to recreate | No numeric minimum. Prefers established companies with several teams, several systems and a few years of history. Operating, winding-down and closed companies accepted | Not published | Not published |
| [Amazon](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/amazon) | Direct buyer | Not published. The New York Times deal is reported at $20 million to $25 million a year (The Wall Street Journal) | Mainly large publishers and platforms, by direct deal | Not published | Not published |
| [Anthropic](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/anthropic) | Direct buyer | Not published | Mainly large publishers and platforms, by direct deal. No open program for companies to sell records | Not published | Not published |
| [Appen](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/appen) | Training-data company | Not published. Each partnership is quoted individually, based on volume, connected systems, workflow complexity and rarity | Not published. Appen responds to registrations within two business days | Not published. Appen says your data is never commingled with another partner's | None. Appen covers extraction, anonymization, preparation and transfer, with no setup fees or deductions |
| [Apple](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/apple) | Direct buyer | Not published. The Shutterstock deal is reported at $25 million to $50 million (Reuters) | Mainly large publishers and platforms, by direct deal | Not published | Not published |
| [AWS Data Exchange](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/aws-data-exchange) | Data marketplace | Provider sets the price | Must register as an AWS Marketplace seller. Paid products need residency or incorporation in an eligible jurisdiction, including the UK, EU and US | Not published | AWS Marketplace service fees deducted. Rate not stated on the pages we checked |
| [Calliope Networks](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/calliope-networks) | Licensing agent | Not published. Creators are paid by a formula based on volume and subscriber count | Not published. Open to film and TV rights owners and to creators on YouTube and other platforms | Non-exclusive for content owners, with no exhibition rights granted | Not published |
| [Centaur.ai](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/centaur-ai) | Training-data company | Not published. MIT News reported small cash prizes, with one top earner making about $10,000 | Not applicable. Medical students and professionals join through DiagnosUs | Not published | Not published |
| [Cogito Tech](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/cogito-tech) | Training-data company | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| [Cohere](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/cohere) | Direct buyer | Not published | Not published. No open program for companies or publishers | Not published | Not published |
| [Created by Humans](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/created-by-humans) | Licensing agent | Not published. The platform shows relative earnings potential by rights licensed | None published. Open to authors, agents and publishers, who claim works by ISBN or upload | Not published | Not published on its site. TechCrunch reported it takes a cut of each deal |
| [Databricks Marketplace](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/databricks-marketplace) | Data marketplace | Provider sets terms. Paid access is agreed with each consumer outside the Marketplace | Approval through the Databricks Data Partner Program, a Premium plan or above and a Unity Catalog-enabled workspace | Not published | Not stated in the provider documentation we checked |
| [Datarade](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/datarade) | Data marketplace | Provider sets the price | None published. Applications reviewed in 1 to 2 business days | Not published | Commission-only: $0 a year plus 30%. Bronze: $6,000 a year plus 20%. Silver: $12,000 a year plus 15%. Gold: custom |
| [DataVendor](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/datavendor) | Data marketplace | Vendor sets the price. Example homepage listings include a $220,000 payments monorepo | None. Self-serve sign-up with no application review | Not published | 20% of vendor earnings, charged on withdrawal. A $15 dispute fee passes to the vendor if a dispute is lost |
| [Defined.ai](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/defined-ai) | Data marketplace | Not published | Not published. Partners pass an ethical vetting process, and Defined.ai says 30% are approved | Not published | Not published |
| [ElevenLabs Voice Library](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/elevenlabs-voice-library) | Content licensing platform | Rate not published and set by notice period. More than $22 million earned by over 10,400 creators (ElevenLabs figure, May 2026) | Professional Voice Clone (Creator plan or higher), about 2 hours of clean recordings, Voice Captcha verification and team review | Not published | Not published. No paid subscription is needed to receive payouts |
| [Encord](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/encord) | Training-data company | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| [Endless Data](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/endless-data) | Direct buyer | Up to $4 million (indicative estimate based on headcount, years of history and location) | Roughly 30 or more employees, several years of history, English documentation. US, UK and Canada prioritized | Non-exclusive | None. Endless is paid by the labs |
| [FileYield](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/fileyield) | Data marketplace | Seller sets the price | Not published. Listings are reviewed before going live | Seller chooses: exclusive or non-exclusive, time-limited or perpetual | Free to list. Any facilitation fees are disclosed when you list, request or accept a deal |
| [Getty Images](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/getty-images) | Content licensing platform | Royalty of 15% to 45% per license. AI revenue shared annually by a formula that is not published | Contributors apply with six non-AI samples, must be 18 or over, and hear back within about a week | Optional. Exclusive contributors earn higher royalty rates | Not published |
| [Google](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/google) | Direct buyer | Not published. Reported deals include about $60 million a year (Reddit, reported by Reuters) and a $10 million winning bid (Spirit Airlines data) | Mainly large publishers and platforms, by direct deal. More than 400 news publications take part in its News AI pilot | Not published | Not published |
| [Grepped](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/grepped) | Data broker | Not verified on Grepped's site | Not verified on Grepped's site | Not verified on Grepped's site | Not verified on Grepped's site |
| [Handshake AI](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/handshake-ai) | Training-data company | $100,000 to more than $4 million (headline). Its calculator shows estimates up to $100,000 and $400,000 to $800,000 or more | Not published. The calculator asks for employees, tools used and years in business | Not published | Not published |
| [Hugging Face](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/hugging-face) | Data marketplace | None. No payments to dataset authors are described | None. Free accounts get 100GB of private storage, PRO accounts 1TB | None. Authors choose the license and can gate or revoke access | Hosting only: public storage add-ons from $12 per TB a month, extra private storage from $18 per TB a month |
| [Human Native](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/human-native) | Data marketplace | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| [iMerit](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/imerit) | Training-data company | Not published | Not applicable. Domain experts join iMerit Scholars | Not published | Not published |
| [Innodata](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/innodata) | Training-data company | Not published | Not published. No open program for companies to sell records | Not published | Not published |
| [Invisible Technologies](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/invisible-technologies) | Training-data company | Not published. Meridial says each engagement publishes its rate range before work begins | Not applicable. Experts join Meridial as independent contractors | Not published | Not published |
| [Kaggle Datasets](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/kaggle-datasets) | Data marketplace | None. No payments to uploaders are described | None published. Any Kaggle user or organization can upload | None. The uploader picks one license per dataset | Not published. No listing fee is described |
| [Labelbox Prism](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/labelbox-prism) | Training-data company | From around $50,000 (smaller targeted datasets) to more than $1 million (large enterprise partnerships) | Not published. Prefers high-volume B2C companies for support logs | Exclusive by default, tailored to scope, sensitivity and strategic value | Not published. Scoping is free and non-binding |
| [Linguistic Data Consortium](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/linguistic-data-consortium) | Data marketplace | Not published. Its data sharing guide does not mention royalties or payments to providers | None published. Providers supply ownership and copyright information, a sample and documentation for LDC review | Non-exclusive. LDC does not require exclusive distribution rights | Not published |
| [LXT](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/lxt) | Training-data company | Per task. Clickworker says each task's fixed amount is published in advance | Not applicable. Individuals join the clickworker crowd | Not published | Not published |
| [Mercor](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/mercor) | Training-data company | Not published on mercor.com/data. ddiy.co reported Mercor's referral page listing $20,000 to $1.5 million by industry (October 2026) | Not published on mercor.com/data. Target industries include legal, healthcare, finance and insurance, professional services, manufacturing, retail, real estate and logistics | Not published | None. Mercor covers extraction, anonymization and transfer costs |
| [Meta](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/meta) | Direct buyer | Not published. Both deals in our tracker are undisclosed | Mainly large publishers and platforms, by direct deal | Not published | Not published |
| [micro1](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/micro1) | Training-data company | $100,000 to $500,000 (qualified partnerships), $500,000 to $3 million (large-scale or ongoing), more than $3 million (highly unique data). Agent trajectories listed at $1 million to $2 million a year | 30 or more full-time staff, mainly English records, US first, then the UK and Canada | Not published | None stated |
| [Microsoft](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/microsoft) | Direct buyer | Not published. Publishers are paid on delivered value, with usage-based reporting | Publishers of all sizes, through an interest form for the Publisher Content Marketplace. Large publishers by direct deal | Not published | Not published |
| [Mistral AI](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/mistral-ai) | Direct buyer | Not published. The AFP deal terms were not disclosed | Mainly large publishers and platforms, by direct deal | Not published | Not published |
| [OpenAI](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/openai) | Direct buyer | Not published. Reported deals run up to about $250 million over five years (News Corp, reported by The Wall Street Journal) | Mainly large publishers and platforms, by direct deal. Other organizations can submit interest through its data partnerships form | Not published | Not published |
| [Opendatabay](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/opendatabay) | Data marketplace | Seller sets the price and keeps 70% to 95% depending on the sale price | Not published | Not published | Free to list. Commission from 30% (sales up to $100) to 5% (sales above $250,000), set per transaction |
| [OpenTrain AI](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/opentrain-ai) | Data broker | Not published by OpenTrain. Its pages quote buyer ranges of $100,000 to more than $3 million, and $50,000 to $500,000 for private code | None published. The signer must have authority to bind the company | Set by each buyer | None. A buyer may pay OpenTrain a referral reward |
| [Perplexity](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/perplexity) | Direct buyer | Revenue share on interactions that reference a publisher. 80% of Comet Plus revenue, with a $42.5 million initial pool (reported by Axios) | News and web publishers, through its Publishers' Program | Not published | None stated. Perplexity keeps 20% of Comet Plus revenue (reported by Axios) |
| [Polyshares](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/polyshares) | Direct buyer | $100,000 to $2 million and above typical. Four published licenses range from $110,000 to $450,000 | No headcount minimum. Any company with real operating history, in any sector | All four published case studies are perpetual exclusive licenses. Its terms page does not state exclusivity | None. No fee and no commission |
| [Prolific](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/prolific) | Training-data company | Participants: at least £6.00 or $8.00 an hour, with £9.00 or $12.00 an hour recommended | Not applicable to companies. More than 300,000 active participants, with over a million on the waitlist | Not published | Not applicable to participants. Buyers pay a 42.8% platform fee (corporate) or 33.3% (academic and non-profit) |
| [ProRata.ai](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/prorata-ai) | Content licensing platform | Not verified on ProRata.ai's site. Axios reported a 50/50 revenue share for publishers licensing content to Gist Answers | Not verified on ProRata.ai's site. Partners range from national titles to university presses | Not verified on ProRata.ai's site | Not verified on ProRata.ai's site. Axios reported Gist Answers is free for websites |
| [Protege](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/protege) | Data broker | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| [Sama](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/sama) | Training-data company | Not published | Not applicable | Not published | Not published |
| [Scale AI](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/scale-ai) | Training-data company | $10,000 to more than $1 million per partnership (illustrative, scaling with cadence) | 40 or more employees preferred, assessed case by case | Not published | Not published |
| [SellMyData](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/sellmydata) | Data broker | Not published. Price set by data type, volume, years of history and lab demand, and approved by the seller | No minimum headcount | Not published | Nothing upfront. Commission when a sale closes (rate not published) |
| [Shaip](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/shaip) | Training-data company | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| [Shutterstock data licensing](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/shutterstock-data-licensing) | Content licensing platform | Not published. Contributor compensation is not described on the data licensing page | Not applicable | Not published | Not published |
| [SimpleClosure AssetHub](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/simpleclosure-assethub) | Data broker | Deals in the tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars for unique assets | None published. Operating companies and companies winding down can both sell | Not published | No upfront cost. A percentage on a successful sale or license (rate not published) |
| [Snorkel AI](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/snorkel-ai) | Training-data company | Not published on its site. One contract posting guaranteed a $1,000 weekly minimum for 20 to 30 hours | Not applicable. Individual experts apply for contract roles | Not published | Not published |
| [Snowflake Marketplace](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/snowflake-marketplace) | Data marketplace | Provider sets the price: usage-based, subscription (1 to 36 months) or installment plans | Full Snowflake account, approved provider profile and, for paid listings, a billing address in one of 20 eligible countries | Not published | Not stated in the provider documentation we checked. The Stripe payout account costs nothing extra |
| [Surge AI](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/surge-ai) | Training-data company | Not published by Surge AI. DataAnnotation lists up to $150 or more an hour for coding work and up to $50 an hour for generalists | Not applicable. Individuals apply through DataAnnotation, which Forbes reported is Surge's affiliate | Not published | Not published |
| [TELUS Digital](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/telus-digital) | Training-data company | Not published | Not published. No open program for companies to sell records | Not published | Not published |
| [Troveo](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/troveo) | Licensing agent | Typical full-company deals start at six figures. More than $20 million paid to licensors to date (Troveo figure) | Not published. Its estimator uses headcount (20 to 1,000 or more) and years trading (under 3 to 15 or more) | Time-limited and has to be earned, with exit terms in the agreement | None. No fees, setup costs or deductions from payouts |
| [Turing](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/turing) | Training-data company | Not published. Experts set a rate in their profile and Turing advertises competitive pay | Not applicable. Engineers and experts apply as independent contractors | Not published | Not published |
| [Versos](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/versos) | Content licensing platform | Not published for Versos. Its blog reports $1 to $4 per minute (OpenAI) and about $3 per minute (Adobe), unsourced | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| [Wirestock](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/wirestock) | Content licensing platform | Not published. Royalties or lump-sum payments when content is selected and used | None published. Creators opt in to generative AI licensing after uploading | Not published | Not published. Creators earn a commission when work is licensed |
| [xAI](https://sellmydatatoai.net/data-buyers/xai) | Direct buyer | Not published | Not published. No open program for companies or publishers | Not published | Not published |