Which pays more, Mercor or Welo Data?

Mercor advertises more: a median top rate of $100/hr against $10/hr at Welo Data. These are the rates in open listings (262 on Mercor, 67 on Welo Data), not earnings; each platform sets individual pay after you apply.

Which has more open roles, Mercor or Welo Data?

Welo Data has more open roles: 523 against 297 on Mercor. Counts are refreshed daily from each platform's public listings.

How is applying to Mercor different from Welo Data?

Mercor: Expect an AI-led interview of 45–90 minutes, the longest of the major platforms. Most applicants are rejected; if you pass, work comes in intensive 2–8 week engagements.

Mercor 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.

Mercor advertises more: a median top rate of $100/hr against $10/hr at Welo Data.
Welo Data has more open roles: 523 against 297 on Mercor.
Mercor is open to more places: 65% of its roles name no country restriction, against 6%.

Side by side

	Mercor	Welo Data
Open roles	297	523
Median top rate	$100/hr	$10/hr
Middle half of rates	$65/hr – $120/hr	$7/hr – $19/hr
Highest advertised	$450/hr	$68/hr
Open worldwide	65% of roles	6% of roles
Hires most for	Science & research, Software engineering, Medicine & healthcare	Languages & translation, Business & consulting, Software engineering
Kinds of work	—	—
After you apply	Expect an AI-led interview of 45–90 minutes, the longest of the major platforms. Most applicants are rejected; if you pass, work comes in intensive 2–8 week engagements.	—
How it pays	Weekly via Stripe	—

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

Mercor

Frontier-lab SME placement at the highest pay tier in the market ($80–$200+/hr).

Mercor jobs and pay →Read our review

Welo Data

Welocalize's data services — multilingual annotation and evaluation.

Welo Data jobs and pay →Read our review