Best ways to sell software company data to AI companies
By Gareth HoyleLast updated How we research
In short
The best ways to sell software company data to AI companies are a vetted broker such as Sell My Data To AI, a codebase listing on DataVendor, a sale through SimpleClosure AssetHub or a license with Labelbox Prism. ddiy.co reported Mercor's listing at $50,000 to $500,000 for software companies. Private repositories with full commit history are what buyers ask for.
Key takeaways
- DataVendor is best for teams that want to list a codebase and set the price.
- SimpleClosure AssetHub is best for startups selling code, including at shutdown.
- Labelbox Prism is best for teams with coding sessions and edit 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.
Software companies hold what coding models and agents learn from: repositories with full commit history, pull requests with review comments, issue trackers, incident postmortems and test suites. Public code is already widely available to labs. See our software company data page and our guide to selling source code.
Published figures vary by route. ddiy.co reported Mercor's referral listing at $50,000 to $500,000 for software companies of 15 to 500 employees. DataVendor's homepage shows a $220,000 payments monorepo listing, and MIT Technology Review reported one shut-down crypto startup receiving about $25,000 for its codebase through AssetHub.
Clean the code before you price it. Strip open-source and third-party code, remove secrets from commit history, confirm contractors assigned their IP in writing and take customer data out of logs and test fixtures. Buyers of coding data also ask for agent trajectories and RL environments.
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Sell My Data To AI
Best for teams that need open-source and IP assignment checks before a sale
Sell My Data To AI values codebases and engineering records and brokers licenses with vetted AI buyers. Our eight-point seller vetting identifies open-source code and other third-party content, and checks IP assignments from staff and contractors. 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 that want to list a codebase and set the price
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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SimpleClosure AssetHub
Best for startups selling code, including at shutdown
SimpleClosure AssetHub sells or licenses startup source code, including repositories, documentation and tests, plus workspace data, to AI labs and RL environment builders. Operating companies can license code while still using it. MIT Technology Review reported more than 150 AssetHub deals, 47% including code or data, and one shut-down crypto startup receiving about $25,000 for its codebase.
- 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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Labelbox Prism
Best for teams with coding sessions and edit traces
Labelbox Prism acquires work documents such as coding sessions and operational data from systems such as Jira, and lists code generation and edit traces among the categories with buyer interest. It publishes deals from around $50,000 to more than $1 million, pays an upfront fee at signing plus a revenue share, and makes licenses exclusive by default.
- 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 companies of 15 to 500 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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SellMyData
Best for smaller teams with GitHub, GitLab and Jira exports
SellMyData is a broker that de-identifies company data, such as messages, code, documents, records and tasks from Slack, GitHub, Salesforce, QuickBooks and Zendesk, and sells it to AI labs. It sets no minimum headcount, charges nothing upfront, takes a commission when a sale closes, lets sellers approve every buyer and term, and targets payment within 7 days of a sale closing.
- 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
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Troveo
Best for companies that want income from repeated sales
Troveo is a licensing agent that licenses company data from chat, email, documents, CRM, finance and code platforms to AI buyers on your behalf, sharing revenue on every sale. 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.
- 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
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Handshake AI
Best for software firms with documented engineering workflows
Handshake AI, the AI arm of the Handshake careers network, buys operational data such as financial models, process documentation, underwriting workflows, design documentation and test reports. Its data partnerships page headlines $100,000 to more than $4 million and sets out a five-step process ending in delivery and payment. Its page text does not state size thresholds, exclusivity, fees or payment timing.
- Published payout
- $100,000 to more than $4 million (headline). Its calculator shows estimates up to $100,000 and $400,000 to $800,000 or more
- Size requirement
- Not published. The calculator asks for employees, tools used and years in business
- Exclusivity
- Not published
- Fee to seller
- Not published
- Payment timing
- Not published. Payment follows delivery as the final process step
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 software companies we gave extra weight to routes that name source code, repositories or coding traces in their published brief, and to those that publish their fee model.
| 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
Do we need to remove open-source code before selling?
Can we sell code while the product is still live?
Are pull request reviews worth more than the code itself?
What does DataVendor charge software sellers?
Sources
- How to sell your company's data to AI companies, ddiy.co (figures taken from each buyer's own site), accessed November 2026
- AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train models, MIT Technology Review, 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
- AssetHub, SimpleClosure, accessed November 2026
- Prism, Labelbox, accessed November 2026
- Data monetization, Mercor, accessed November 2026
- SellMyData homepage and FAQ, SellMyData, accessed November 2026
- Business data, Troveo, accessed November 2026
- Data partnerships, Handshake, accessed November 2026