Which pays more, Mindrift or Welo Data?

Mindrift advertises more: a median top rate of $100/hr against $10/hr at Welo Data. These are the rates in open listings (381 on Mindrift, 67 on Welo Data), not earnings; each platform sets individual pay after you apply.

Which has more open roles, Mindrift or Welo Data?

Mindrift has more open roles: 847 against 523 on Welo Data. Counts are refreshed daily from each platform's public listings.

How is applying to Mindrift different from Welo Data?

Mindrift: Onboarding is lighter than the top-tier platforms — a common entry point. Pay varies by task and region.

Mindrift 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.

Mindrift advertises more: a median top rate of $100/hr against $10/hr at Welo Data.
Mindrift has more open roles: 847 against 523 on Welo Data.
Welo Data is open to more places: 6% of its roles name no country restriction, against 0%.

Side by side

	Mindrift	Welo Data
Open roles	847	523
Median top rate	$100/hr	$10/hr
Middle half of rates	$100/hr – $100/hr	$7/hr – $19/hr
Highest advertised	$100/hr	$68/hr
Open worldwide	0% of roles	6% of roles
Hires most for	Languages & translation, Engineering, General (no specialty)	Languages & translation, Business & consulting, Software engineering
Kinds of work	—	—
After you apply	Onboarding is lighter than the top-tier platforms — a common entry point. Pay varies by task and region.	—
How it pays	—	—

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

Mindrift

Toloka's freelance AI-trainer platform — the largest single pool of listings.

Mindrift jobs and pay →Read our review

Welo Data

Welocalize's data services — multilingual annotation and evaluation.

Welo Data jobs and pay →Read our review