How much do AI labs pay for data? What the buyers themselves say

Questions, answered directly

How much do AI labs pay for a company's data?

The company programmes that publish a figure quote six and seven figure sums. micro1 headlines $200k-2M+ and says its payments typically range from $150K to over $2M, Handshake helps companies license data with $100K to $4M+ payouts, Mode says a company's data could be worth $100K to $5M, and Nyne that its partnerships are commonly worth $100K or more. These are the buyers' own ranges, not offers.(What AI data buyers publish they pay: every row, with its source)

Do AI labs buy data directly?

The buyers on this board are mostly intermediaries: data partners that license company records to AI developers, marketplaces and contributor programmes for footage, voice and images, and paywalls that charge AI crawlers for a website's pages. Each row shows what that buyer's own page says it pays.(What AI data buyers publish they pay: every row, with its source)

How much do AI companies pay for video footage?

The two capture projects on the board pay by the accepted hour of recording: Claru's closed wearable camera posting listed $35 to $40 an hour, and Chemin's egocentric video project pays USD 3 per accepted recording hour, plus USD 0.25 for quality control. Footage that fails their quality checks is not paid.(What AI data buyers publish they pay: every row, with its source)

Is it a one-off payment or a share of sales?

Both exist. micro1 says it pays in full within 30 days of acceptance, and Murf describes a single transaction. Troveo pays on every sale it makes of a dataset, Shutterstock gives contributors a share of the contract value through a pooled fund, and TollBit and Cloudflare let a website set a charge each time an AI system reads its pages.(What AI data buyers publish they pay: every row, with its source)

Why do so many buyers publish no price?

Most of the pages we read describe a process and leave the figure to a quote: 14 of the 22 buyers say nothing on their page about what they pay. A page that gives no figure is shown on the board as stating none, never filled in with a guess.(What AI data buyers publish they pay: every row, with its source)

Is a data licence fee taxed when it is paid?

It can be. In the US a payer reports royalties of $10 or more on Form 1099-MISC and may have to hold back 24 percent as backup withholding. In the UK a royalty paid to an owner abroad has income tax deducted at the basic rate, and a company's licence income meets corporation tax at 19% on profits of £50,000 or less.(What AI data buyers publish they pay: every row, with its source)