Which pays more, Handshake AI or Welo Data?

Handshake AI advertises more: a median top rate of $125/hr against $10/hr at Welo Data. These are the rates in open listings (2 on Handshake AI, 67 on Welo Data), not earnings; each platform sets individual pay after you apply.

Which has more open roles, Handshake AI or Welo Data?

Welo Data has more open roles: 523 against 207 on Handshake AI. Counts are refreshed daily from each platform's public listings.

How is applying to Handshake AI different from Welo Data?

Handshake AI: Applications go through Handshake's career platform. Engagements are part-time and fixed-term — typically 10–20 hours a week.

Handshake AI vs Welo Data

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.

Handshake AI advertises more: a median top rate of $125/hr against $10/hr at Welo Data.
Welo Data has more open roles: 523 against 207 on Handshake AI.
Handshake AI is open to more places: 100% of its roles name no country restriction, against 6%.

Side by side

	Handshake AI	Welo Data
Open roles	207	523
Median top rate	$125/hr	$10/hr
Middle half of rates	$125/hr – $125/hr	$7/hr – $19/hr
Highest advertised	$125/hr	$68/hr
Open worldwide	100% of roles	6% of roles
Hires most for	Engineering, Business & consulting, Science & research	Languages & translation, Business & consulting, Software engineering
Kinds of work	—	—
After you apply	Applications go through Handshake's career platform. Engagements are part-time and fixed-term — typically 10–20 hours a week.	—
How it pays	—	—

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

Handshake AI

The Handshake AI Fellowship — structured part-time research engagements for academics.

Handshake AI jobs and pay →Read our review

Welo Data

Welocalize's data services — multilingual annotation and evaluation.

Welo Data jobs and pay →Read our review