Best ways to sell cybersecurity company data to AI companies
By Gareth HoyleLast updated How we research
In short
The best ways to sell cybersecurity company data to AI companies are a vetted broker such as Sell My Data To AI, a taskset or RL environment listing on DataVendor, or a license with micro1, Labelbox Prism or Mercor. ddiy.co recorded Mercor's published listing at $20,000 to $750,000 for cybersecurity companies. TLP-restricted intelligence and client findings stay out.
Key takeaways
- DataVendor is best for teams with tasksets, labs and RL environments.
- micro1 is best for firms producing agent trajectories at scale.
- Labelbox Prism is best for firms with coding sessions and research traces.
- Sell My Data To AI wrote this list and ranks itself first. The method section explains the criteria.
- Every entry's facts come from the company's own published terms, checked November 2026.
Cybersecurity companies hold detection rules, incident response playbooks, SOC triage notes, anonymized penetration test findings and training labs. Security work is a sequence of observations, tool calls and decisions, the same structure as an agent trajectory. See our cybersecurity data page.
ddiy.co recorded Mercor's published listing at $20,000 to $750,000 for cybersecurity companies of 20 to 2,000 staff. micro1 lists agent trajectories at $1 million to $2 million a year, and DataVendor sells tasksets with the RL environments they run on. Our RL environments guide explains how a training lab becomes one.
Intelligence received under TLP:RED or TLP:AMBER cannot pass to a buyer under FIRST's TLP 2.0 definitions. Client findings are confidential to the client, and the UK Strategic Export Control List covers intrusion software under entries 4D004 and 4E001.c. Logs also carry IP addresses, which UK GDPR Article 4 treats as online identifiers.
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Sell My Data To AI
Best for security firms that need TLP, client and export screening first
Sell My Data To AI values detection content, playbooks and training labs and brokers licenses with vetted AI buyers. Every buyer is verified on identity, intended use and onward transfer limits, and every seller passes checks on contract restrictions and third-party content. You pay nothing to be assessed, approve every buyer, sample and license term, and agree the success fee in writing before any introduction. We do not take custody of your raw data.
- Fee to seller
- Nothing to be assessed. A success fee only when a deal completes, agreed in writing before any buyer introduction
- Seller vetting
- Eight-point standard, from authority to sign to manifest accuracy, before any buyer sees your data
- Buyer vetting
- Company identity, intended use, security and retention, onward transfer limits and, for larger deals, ability to pay
- Data custody
- No custody of raw data. Buyers see redacted samples under a mutual NDA
- Your control
- You approve every buyer, sample and license term, and can withdraw at any point before signing
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DataVendor
Best for teams with tasksets, labs and RL environments
DataVendor is a marketplace on the HUD platform where vendors sell codebases, tasksets with their RL environments, corpora and raw data to AI companies. Sign-up is self-serve with no application review, vendors set their own prices and can import private repositories from GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket, and DataVendor keeps 20% of earnings on withdrawal. Buyer access is invite-only and all sales are final.
- Published payout
- Vendor sets the price. Example homepage listings include a $220,000 payments monorepo
- Size requirement
- None. Self-serve sign-up with no application review
- Exclusivity
- Not published
- Fee to seller
- 20% of vendor earnings, charged on withdrawal. A $15 dispute fee passes to the vendor if a dispute is lost
- Payment timing
- Not published
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micro1
Best for firms producing agent trajectories at scale
micro1 licenses operational records and agent trajectories for AI labs and enterprises in the US and allied countries, and lists agent trajectories at $1 million to $2 million a year. Its other published tiers run from $100,000 to more than $3 million. It asks for 30 or more full-time staff and mainly English records, and says it removes or transforms personal information before sharing data.
- Published payout
- $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
- Size requirement
- 30 or more full-time staff, mainly English records, US first, then the UK and Canada
- Exclusivity
- Not published
- Fee to seller
- None stated
- Payment timing
- Homepage says within 30 days of acceptance. FAQ says up to 30 days to review, then payment within 30 days of invoice
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Labelbox Prism
Best for firms with coding sessions and research traces
Prism, operated by Labelbox, acquires work documents such as coding sessions, research traces and financial modeling, plus operational data from Salesforce, Jira and SAP, for frontier AI developers. It publishes deals from around $50,000 to more than $1 million, pays an upfront fee at signing plus a revenue share, makes licenses exclusive by default and says first call to first wire takes under 21 days.
- Published payout
- From around $50,000 (smaller targeted datasets) to more than $1 million (large enterprise partnerships)
- Size requirement
- Not published. Prefers high-volume B2C companies for support logs
- Exclusivity
- Exclusive by default, tailored to scope, sensitivity and strategic value
- Fee to seller
- Not published. Scoping is free and non-binding
- Payment timing
- Upfront fee at signing plus revenue share. Prism says first call to first wire takes under 21 days
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Mercor
Best for firms of 20 to 2,000 staff on GitHub and Slack
Mercor pays businesses to license workflow data from more than 100 supported tools, including Slack, Microsoft Teams, Gmail, Salesforce, GitHub and Notion. Its data monetization page says Mercor covers extraction, anonymization and transfer costs and pays by wire after delivery, typically within 2 to 4 weeks of the signed agreement. ddiy.co reported Mercor's referral page listing $20,000 to $1.5 million by industry in October 2026.
- Published payout
- Not published on mercor.com/data. ddiy.co reported Mercor's referral page listing $20,000 to $1.5 million by industry (October 2026)
- Size requirement
- Not published on mercor.com/data. Target industries include legal, healthcare, finance and insurance, professional services, manufacturing, retail, real estate and logistics
- Exclusivity
- Not published
- Fee to seller
- None. Mercor covers extraction, anonymization and transfer costs
- Payment timing
- Wire transfer after delivery, typically within 2 to 4 weeks of the signed agreement
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SimpleClosure AssetHub
Best for startups selling code to AI labs and RL builders
SimpleClosure AssetHub sells or licenses startup source code and workspace data to buyers that include AI foundation labs and reinforcement learning environment builders. It says every dataset is processed for personal information and credentials before it is licensed. SimpleClosure reports deals in the tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars and takes a percentage only on a successful sale or license.
- Published payout
- Deals in the tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars for unique assets
- Size requirement
- None published. Operating companies and companies winding down can both sell
- Exclusivity
- Not published
- Fee to seller
- No upfront cost. A percentage on a successful sale or license (rate not published)
- Payment timing
- Not published. Initial viability assessment within days or hours
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Opendatabay
Best for packaged agentic trajectory and code datasets
Opendatabay is a marketplace for licensed AI training and fine-tuning datasets, showing 111 licensed data providers and 655 data products on its homepage across text, image, audio, video, code, agentic trajectories and synthetic data. Listing is free, sellers set the price and keep 70% to 95% depending on the sale price, and self-serve payouts 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
- Size requirement
- 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
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FileYield
Best for firms that want to set license terms themselves
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. Its taxonomy covers 2,566 data types across 36 categories. FileYield does not touch the data, process payments or hold escrow, and its terms say any facilitation fees 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
- Size requirement
- Not published. Listings are reviewed before going live
- 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
How we ranked this list
Sell My Data To AI wrote this list and ranks itself first. We are a broker with a commercial interest in the result, and some companies below offer a service similar to ours. Read the order with that in mind.
For cybersecurity companies we gave extra weight to routes that name agent trajectories, tasksets or RL environments in their published brief, and to those that check datasets for credentials.
| Criterion | What we checked |
|---|---|
| Fit for the data type | Whether the company names this kind of record in its own published brief |
| Published terms | Whether payouts, size requirements and license terms appear on the company's own pages |
| Vetting | What checks the company says it runs on sellers, buyers or datasets before a sample changes hands |
| Exclusivity | Whether licenses are exclusive, non-exclusive or perpetual, and whether that is published |
| Fees | Whether the seller pays a fee or commission, and whether the rate is published |
| Payment timing | When sellers are paid, as stated by the company |
| Transparency | How much of the above you can confirm before a first call |
Every fact about another company comes from our profile of it in the data buyers directory, checked on that company's own pages in November 2026. Where a term is missing we write "Not published" rather than guess. After first place, the order reflects fit for a company selling or licensing its data, not a quality score, and we do not rate any company negatively.
We rank Sell My Data To AI first because this is our list and our service is built for this reader, not because we scored ourselves against the others. We are independent of the buyers we work with, and our terms are on our fees and how we vet pages so you can compare them line by line.
Frequently asked questions
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Sources
- How to sell company data to AI companies (2026 guide), ddiy.co, accessed November 2026
- Traffic Light Protocol (TLP), FIRST, accessed November 2026
- UK Strategic Export Control List, December 2025, GOV.UK (Export Control Joint Unit), accessed November 2026
- UK GDPR Article 4: definitions, legislation.gov.uk, accessed November 2026
- DataVendor homepage, DataVendor, accessed November 2026
- DataVendor documentation, DataVendor, accessed November 2026
- FAQ, DataVendor, accessed November 2026
- Become a vendor, DataVendor, accessed November 2026
- Data partnerships, micro1, accessed November 2026
- Prism, Labelbox, accessed November 2026
- Data monetization, Mercor, accessed November 2026
- AssetHub, SimpleClosure, accessed November 2026
- Opendatabay homepage, Opendatabay, accessed November 2026
- Fees and pricing, Opendatabay, accessed November 2026
- FileYield homepage, FileYield, accessed November 2026
- How it works, FileYield, accessed November 2026
- Terms of service, FileYield, accessed November 2026