44 platforms, 29 business models and 3 career paths. Each card shows realistic pay, time to first money, what it costs to start and when we last checked. Entries we haven't checked yet and closed ones stay hidden until you ask for them.
Paid academic and commercial studies (surveys, experiments, some AI evaluation) with an enforced minimum hourly rate.
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German microtask marketplace in 136 countries: tagging, short writing, data collection; UHRS access adds Microsoft rating tasks.
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Casual English conversation tutoring, no degree needed; low per-minute pay, instant start.
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Pick-your-own-hours AI tasks with fast PayPal withdrawals; one unpaid entry assessment decides whether you get work.
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Have an agent watch Marketplace/classifieds for underpriced cameras, bikes or furniture in your city and alert you; buy low, resell.
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Scale AI's contributor platform: rate, write and fix AI outputs, with specialist tracks up to ~$150/h advertised.
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Once rated top-tier by the community for consistent pay; listed as closed in October 2026.
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Localization giant's AI-data community: multilingual annotation and evaluation tasks.
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Uber pays opted-in US drivers for small AI-data tasks between trips (voice recordings, menus, photos).
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The original microtask market; mostly US/India, low effective pay — listed for completeness, generally not recommended.
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Language data projects (transcription review, translation QA, search relevance) across 100+ countries; many pass tests but get little work.
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Cut short clips from streamers', podcasts' and brands' videos and get paid per 1,000 verified views through campaign marketplaces such as Whop Content Rewards.
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Subject-matter-expert contracting for AI projects with weekly Deel payouts (263 roles tracked Oct 2026).
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Commission-free portfolio + contracting network popular with designers, no-code and AI builders.
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Per-word translation work; still viable for specialised (legal, medical) and post-editing, shrinking for generic text.
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45-minute discovery call → report prescribing 3–7 off-the-shelf AI/SaaS tools that save 5–10 h/week, with a money-back guarantee; it's the door to implementation work.
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Film short authentic-looking videos for brands' ads and social — no audience required; usage rights and whitelisting are extra.
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Largest language-tutoring marketplace: you set the rate, Preply takes the trial lesson and a 33%→18% commission.
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Do a small piece of work for a target before they ask (a launch video, 3 design fixes, a QA report), send it, then sell a monthly retainer.
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Install, connect and maintain personal agents (assistants that book, file, remind) for families, seniors and solo professionals — safely.
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Language marketplace with community tutors and professional teachers; flat commission, no tiers.
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The largest expert marketplace for AI labs: hourly contracts for professionals, from generalists to doctors, lawyers and senior engineers.
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The biggest general freelance marketplace; variable 0–15% fee, paid bids ('Connects'), strong demand for AI-augmented services.
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Productized 'gig' marketplace: buyers come to you, but Fiverr keeps 20% of every order.
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Fix a broken process, then automate it: project fees from ~$1.5k, process redesigns ~$3k+, maintenance retainers.
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Two 45-minute screen-share sessions a month building the client's own AI skills/workflows, plus async chat — $1.2–2k/month per client.
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Paid 30–60 min research interviews where companies want your professional profile; incentives are high but invitations are irregular.
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Paid 30–60 min calls and surveys for investors and consultants who need your industry knowledge; senior niche expertise earns $300–1,000+/h.
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AGI-infrastructure company hiring contractors (mostly engineers, increasingly other domains) for lab projects; often needs PST overlap.
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Get paid to think aloud while testing websites and apps; live conversations pay more.
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AI training projects for US-based students, grads and PhDs via the Handshake careers network.
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Fast-growing YC startup paying working professionals to document how they reason through real cases.
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Labelbox's expert network: a wide advertised pay range, a low median listed rate in aitrainer.work's data, and payment-delay complaints in community forums.
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Toloka's expert/AI-tutor platform; mid-range pay, biweekly payouts via Payoneer/PayPal.
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Invisible's contributor brand for RLHF/SFT and expert work; many listings, very low median listed rate in Oct 2026.
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London-based AI expert network (a16z-backed): one voice interview builds your profile; matched to expert calls, surveys and AI-data work.
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AI-interview-gated talent pool ('Zara') placing experts on AI-lab projects; strong rates for STEM, legal and healthcare.
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Show a business what ChatGPT & co. say about it (missing, wrong price, competitor recommended), then fix its 'agent-readable source of truth' and re-measure monthly.
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Package one repeat deliverable buyers already purchase (ad creatives, localized franchise campaigns, product demo videos) and fulfil it with AI pipelines + human QA.
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Teach practical AI in person or live online — local business meetups, co-working office hours, senior-living sessions — and convert attendees into clients.
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Build and run code-based marketing agents for clients: LinkedIn-engagement → enrichment → outbound, Meta-ads creative loops, founder content engines.
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Interview founders and teams weekly, turn transcripts into a library of their own approved language, and let AI remix it into daily posts — not AI slop.
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Pick one niche and one painful repeated job (missed calls, maintenance triage, reservations) and sell an agent that does it — pilot like labor, then productize.
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Clone your voice once (Professional Voice Clone) and earn royalties whenever people use it; creators have earned $22M+ in total.
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Per-minute transcription and captioning; open applications but a waitlist; AI has compressed this market.
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Europe's leading freelance marketplace (strong in France, Germany, Spain, Benelux); low 5% freelancer fee, day-rate culture.
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A tiny daily game for one niche (sports geography, music, trivia) that players share in group chats; earns from ads plus a pro tier.
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Package what you know into a file people pay for; choose a merchant-of-record storefront so EU VAT is handled for you.
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Long-running rater and data projects (search/ads rating, local-language evaluation); low but steady pay in 100+ countries.
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One of the oldest AI-data vendors; huge country coverage, low pay, inconsistent project flow.
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One 'gotcha' AI feature for a passionate niche, sold via creators and short-form video; subscriptions via RevenueCat.
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The person who turns market signal into pipeline using agents, data, code and taste — in-house, as a consultant ($5–30k/month embeds) or as a productized service.
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Embed with a company, map how work really happens, and ship agents inside their systems of record — the hottest AI role of 2026 ($150–288k base in the US).
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Skip zero-to-one: buy a small SaaS, app or content site with verified revenue, then improve distribution and costs with AI.
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Brokers (e.g., Troveo, Calliope Networks) buy raw or unpublished footage for model training at ~$1–4 per minute.
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Actors license their likeness to avatar companies for a flat fee (Synthesia: 3-year licence; equity pool for popular avatars).
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Track 100 businesses in one niche + city (prices, reviews, hiring, ads), turn it into reports, then a dashboard, API, MCP tool and eventually pay-per-lookup for agents.
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A simple tool that wins local businesses more jobs (online booking widget, missed-call text-back), sold door to door with a tablet demo.
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Salaried role building internal automations and agents; US listings ~$115–140k for remote AI automation specialists.
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Turn a creator's or expert's years of videos/newsletters into ONE job-specific tool (e.g., cold-email critique citing their lessons) sold to their audience.
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Screening-heavy network for senior developers, designers and finance experts; few get in, rates are premium.
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Make boring business websites usable by visitors' AI agents (WebMCP tools for quotes/bookings) and sell monthly 'can an agent complete the job?' test reports.
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Build one narrow tool for a specific buyer with AI coding tools; most indie SaaS earn little, a few earn a salary — distribution decides.
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Ride an existing ecosystem's distribution: rebuild a proven paid plugin as the AI-first version, or bundle many small ones.
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Expose a real-world service to personal agents (court bookings, repair dispatch, supplier leads, grocery lists) and earn per booking, lead or subscription.
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Earn commissions by recommending products you actually use — works only with trust, disclosure and real comparisons.
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Design or source a product for a passionate niche (coffee nerds, combat athletes, anti-scroll users) and run sourcing, store and email with a small agent team.
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Pays ~$0.40–1.00 per 1,000 qualified views on 1-min+ videos (10k followers) in 8 countries; Shop affiliate 5–20% commissions.
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Curate a messy local or niche category (dog parks, daycares, liquidation stores) into the best structured listing site; monetize with ads, premium listings and leads.
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Curate and editorialize one niche weekly; monetize with sponsors, paid tiers and affiliate links. AI agents can do the research grunt-work.
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Build a 'world' around a group of people with a lasting problem: free newsletter, paid community, job board, events. Calm and durable if the problem never ends.
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Instead of a personal brand, run a themed account (e.g., growth tactics, passive income memes) that funnels to your products or services.
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Communal sauna clubs, premium arcades/LAN cafés, creative retreats — things AI can't replace; build the audience online first and pre-sell memberships.
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Build what agents need and humans didn't: inboxes, identity & permissions, spend controls, audit receipts, agent analytics — venture-scale, technical.
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Ad revenue (55% of long-form) plus fan funding once you hit 1,000 subs + 4,000 watch hours (or 10M Shorts views).
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Serve a fragmented service industry with AI first (e.g., bookkeeping cleanup), earn owners' trust, then buy a retiring owner's firm and run it on a shared agent layer.
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