AfterQuery vs CrowdGen

Two AI-training platforms side by side, from the roles they have open today and what we know about how each hires and pays. Numbers refresh daily.

Side by side

AfterQueryCrowdGen
Open roles22760
Median top rate$80/hr—
Middle half of rates$50/hr – $108/hr—
Highest advertised$175/hr—
Open worldwide100% of roles37% of roles
Hires most forLanguages & translation, Medicine & healthcare, EngineeringLanguages & translation, General (no specialty)
Kinds of work——
After you applyYou apply to specific tasks, each with its own published pay, rather than waiting to be placed. Onboarding is lighter than Mercor's.Entry-level friendly with broad eligibility; work is available in volume.
How it pays——

Rates are what open listings advertise (median of the top of each range), not earnings. How we measure pay

AfterQuery

Vertical-specific evaluation tasks tagged by domain — coding, finance, law, science.

CrowdGen

Appen's crowd platform for microtasks and search/data evaluation.

AfterQuery vs CrowdGen: questions

Which has more open roles, AfterQuery or CrowdGen?
AfterQuery has more open roles: 227 against 60 on CrowdGen. Counts are refreshed daily from each platform's public listings.
How is applying to AfterQuery different from CrowdGen?
AfterQuery: You apply to specific tasks, each with its own published pay, rather than waiting to be placed. Onboarding is lighter than Mercor's. CrowdGen: Entry-level friendly with broad eligibility; work is available in volume.

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