Updated 8 Nov 2026
The best data brokers for AI in 2026, compared on their own terms.
A company selling its data to AI developers can go through a broker that acts for it, a marketplace that lists the data and takes a share of each sale, or a wind-down service that sells what a closing company leaves. Here are the 21 that publish how they work, side by side: what each pays the company and when, in its own words, with the page it was read on.
AIData.Broker is one of the brokers compared: we run it, so it is shown on the same facts as every other firm here, and none of them pays to be listed.
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Brokers (5)
They act for the company: value the data, find the buyers and handle the deal, paid out of the sale or by the buyer.
| Firm | What it does | What the company gets | When it is paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIData.Broker (this site) | Values a company's data free and introduces it to every AI buyer whose own rules take it; where it earns more, runs the sale itself for companies in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada. | Introductions: the buyer's own published terms, and nothing is taken from the company. Our own sale: 12% of the first $250,000, 10% up to $1 million, 8% up to $3 million and 6% above $3 million of what the company is paid. Fees | Introductions: as each buyer's terms say. Our own sale: only out of a sale, no sale, no fee. |
| Corpus Bridge | An introducer that assesses a business's records and passes them to an unnamed brokerage partner, on a success fee. | It cites licences of about $10,000 to several hundred thousand dollars for ordinary companies. Corpus Bridge, site, 5 Nov 2026 | The buyer pays on contract milestones, for example half on signature and half on delivery. |
| FileYield | A private brokerage that lists or introduces companies' datasets to AI labs; it does not prepare, de-identify or hold the data. | It publishes no prices; it charges sellers 8% and buyers 6% commission. FileYield, sell data page, 27 Oct 2026 | Buyer and seller agree payment terms in their own contract. |
| Grepped | A broker: it signs an agreement with the data owner, packages the records and sells them to AI labs. | Its home page states no figure: "We value it, prepare it and list it, and you get paid when a lab buys." (Until 5 Nov 2026 it said "de-identify it" where it now says "prepare it"; until late October 2026 it said $20K to $5M per company, and until early November that company data was "worth millions" and "up to 6 figures per workspace".) Grepped, home page, 5 Nov 2026 | When a lab buys, as its home page says; its agreement summary says the company is "paid your share within 30 days of each lab payment". |
| Pangea.ai | A broker for private code: Pangea.ai licenses owners' repositories and their git history to AI labs, non-exclusively, through a licensing partner, and pays the owner each time a licence closes. | Standing rates of $100 per million tokens of source code and $40 per million tokens of git history, paid to the owner with no fee taken from its share, again on every re-licence; the rates can change on 30 days' notice, never retroactively. Its own count on 27 Oct 2026: $6M paid to code owners in the last 60 days, across 11,069 repositories. Pangea.ai, Get Paid to License Your Code, 5 Nov 2026 | "Once the buyer's payment is received, you are paid within 15 days"; licensing "is subject to demand rather than guaranteed, but normally between 2 and 16 weeks" once the code is graded. |
Wind-down services (2)
They close startups and sell what a closing company leaves: code, workspace data, IP and domains.
| Firm | What it does | What the company gets | When it is paid | Raised |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SimpleClosure AssetHub | A company-shutdown service whose AssetHub brokers the sale or licence of code, workspace data, IP and domains, for a percentage on success. | "Tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars for unique assets". Early deals were reported at $10,000 to $100,000. It now says larger companies with longer histories can mean "enterprise asset sales reaching into the millions". SimpleClosure, What your assets are worth, 5 Nov 2026 | Not published. | $19M |
| Sunset | A wind-down service for venture-backed startups, for a single flat fee it quotes per company, that also sells a closing company's data, IP and code to AI labs and other buyers. | Not published Sunset, How to monetize assets before you shut down, 5 Nov 2026 | Not published | $1.4M |
Marketplaces and licensing platforms (14)
They list or package the data and license it on, paying the company a share of each sale.
| Firm | What it does | What the company gets | When it is paid | Raised |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Created by Humans | A rights platform for books: authors, agents and publishers opt works in, and it negotiates training and reference licences with AI developers. | Individual deals expected to run from hundreds to thousands of dollars, in proportion to a book's sales (its chief executive, reported). Poets & Writers, 5 Nov 2026 | Agreements are negotiated for the author's approval; payments are tracked in a dashboard. | |
| Datarade | A data marketplace where registered businesses list data products, receive buyer leads and set their own licence terms. | The seller sets the price. Datarade takes 30% commission, or 20% to 15% on a paid plan of $6,000 to $12,000 a year. Datarade, provider page, 5 Nov 2026 | Not published | |
| DataVendor (HUD) | HUD's marketplace connecting builders of training environments and task sets with lab research teams. | Vendors set their own prices; DataVendor keeps 20% of earnings, charged only at withdrawal and never on referral fees, and pays Stripe's transfer and payout fees itself. DataVendor docs, Fees and limits, 1 Nov 2026 | Earnings are available as soon as the buyer pays; withdrawals start at $1,000 and are typically reviewed within 3 business days, then Stripe's payout schedule delivers the money. | |
| Defined.ai | An AI data marketplace whose partner programme lists businesses' datasets and pays licensing fees from each sale. | No rate card. It states "$600K+ average partner revenue" and "$1M+" for five or more partners. Defined.ai, partnerships page, 27 Oct 2026 | Not published | $62.3M |
| Magma | Packages the interaction data of companies that build AI agents (traces, corrections, completed workflows) and licenses it to AI labs and researchers for a revenue share. | "A revenue share, paid as your data licenses." No percentage published. Magma, home page, 5 Nov 2026 | As the data licenses, under the data agreement signed during onboarding. | |
| Newsflare | A user-made video licensing marketplace that also licenses footage to AI companies, splitting the AI licence fee with the filmer. | "50:50 revenue share on AI licensing", on the hours of a filmer's footage a client used: its own example is 400 hours licensed at $40 an hour, which pays the filmer $8,000. It says rates typically range from $10 to $50 per hour used. Newsflare, AI revenue share programme, 5 Nov 2026 | Payments run on a one-month cycle: the filmer's share is sent within 30 days of Newsflare receiving the AI company's funds. | |
| Opendatabay | A UK data marketplace where providers list datasets, including AI training data, for self-serve sale, or have Opendatabay broker them. | The seller keeps 70% of a sale up to $100, rising to 95% above $250,000 (the commission falls from 30% to 5% as the sale grows). In a brokered sale the seller gets the agreed provider price and Opendatabay sets its own price to the buyer. Opendatabay, fees and commission schedule, 27 Oct 2026 | Within 30 days of the end of the month of the sale, once the balance reaches $50. | |
| pre.dev | A coding-agent company whose lab sells RL coding tasks built from licensed private code to frontier labs, and licenses private repositories from developers and companies. | Its earnings example prices source code at $100 per million tokens and git history at $40 per million tokens, $6,000 for the example repository; each repository gets its own value and grade. pre.dev, code licensing section, 5 Nov 2026 | "Paid Net 15 after funds land", under one agreement signed once. | |
| Protege | A licensing platform that links data from many providers into datasets for AI model builders and pays each provider a revenue share. | A revenue share per deal, by the agreed partnership terms. Protege, data providers page, 5 Nov 2026 | Revenue share payments when the data is included in a qualified deal. | $55M |
| Troveo | Licenses non-public data on its owners' behalf (creators' video, audio and game libraries; companies' records) and pays a share of every sale. | "AI labs and startups are actively paying six figures for company data exports", and Troveo pays the holder "on every sale, not just the first". Troveo, business data page, 5 Nov 2026 | A share of every sale, on the terms in the agreement; it states it has already paid licensors $20M+ and works with 40+ active buyers. | $4.5M |
| Turing (Lazarus) | Prepares a company's working record and codebases at its own cost and licenses them, non-exclusively, to frontier AI labs, paying the company a share of every sale. | "We prepare your company's record, license it to labs, and pay you every time it sells. Nothing upfront." The split of each sale is set in the agreement and not published, and it quotes no figure before a sample. Until late October 2026 its page offered "a single payout of up to $1M". Turing, Lazarus page, 2 Nov 2026 | A share of each sale, as each licence to a lab is sold; nothing if nothing sells. Turing alone sells the record for the first 90 days, then the company can renew or opt out. | $111M |
| Versos AI | A platform that indexes video libraries in place and licenses datasets cut from them to AI labs, keeping track of where each asset goes. | No figure published; its estimator values one non-exclusive licence of the footage that passes buyer filters, at what it calls current market rates. Versos AI, home page, 5 Nov 2026 | Not published. | $1.9M |
| Wirestock | A creator platform that licenses photographers', videographers' and illustrators' work to AI labs through paid projects and dataset deals. | Paid per approved asset on projects; in dataset deals, by each creator's share of the pool. Wirestock, FAQ, 27 Oct 2026 | By PayPal or Payoneer once the balance reaches $30. | $23M |
| Kled | A consumer app where individuals upload photos, video and files, and earn when the data is licensed to AI companies. | Not published Kled, site, 29 Oct 2026 | Earnings collect in a wallet that can be cashed out at any time. | $8.5M |
- How it is made.
- Every term is the firm's own, read on the page linked beside it on the day shown, or press reporting named as such. Where a firm publishes nothing, it says so. Funding comes from the company records, never the firm's own copy.
- Not a ranking.
- Few of these firms publish their revenue, so they are not ranked by money: each group lists first the firms that say what the company gets, then by name.
What to ask of any broker, ours included
- Competing written offers for the same rightsOne buyer's number has nothing to be measured against. Offers made by the same deadline, for the same rights, show what the data is worth.
- Buyers you would not reach yourself, and no ties to themA broker earns its fee with demand you could not find alone, and only if nothing it gets from a buyer pulls it toward that buyer.
- Better terms, not only a higher numberScope, exclusivity, when you are paid, what you must report and who carries the risk can be worth as much as the headline price.
- Work taken off your team, and what stays with youA broker should say in writing what it does and what remains yours, so nothing is assumed.
How AIData.Broker meets each test, clause by clause: Direct or through a broker
The questions people ask · figures from the market's records, last reviewed 8 Nov 2026
What are the best data brokers for selling company data to AI companies?
It depends on what the company holds and whether it is still trading. Brokers act for the company and are paid out of the sale or by the buyer (among them Grepped, FileYield, Corpus Bridge, Pangea.ai and AIData.Broker, which runs this comparison and is one of them); marketplaces list the data and take a share of each sale; wind-down services sell what a closing company leaves. AIData.Broker compares the 21 that publish their terms, each in its own words: what the company gets and when it is paid.
More answers
- What does a data broker for AI do?
- It finds the AI developers that will pay for a company's data and handles the deal for the company: values the data, tells it apart from what buyers already have, puts it before the buyers that fit and negotiates the licence. 21 brokers, marketplaces and wind-down services are compared on this page, each on the terms it publishes.
- How much do AI data brokers charge?
- Each firm's published terms are in the table, in its own words: brokers mostly take a share of the sale or a success fee, marketplaces a commission on each sale, and wind-down services a percentage on success. An introduction costs you nothing: the buyer pays us for it, out of its own money rather than what you are paid, and you see the most it may pay us before we introduce you, and which buyer it is once we have. If we sell for you ourselves, you pay us only out of the sale: no sale, no fee. Our own sale's fee is 12% of the first $250,000, 10% up to $1 million, 8% up to $3 million and 6% above $3 million.
- Do I need a broker to sell my company's data to AI companies?
- No: several buyers take companies directly. A broker earns its keep only where it passes four tests: competing written offers for the same rights; buyers you would not reach yourself, and no ties to them; better terms, not only a higher number; work taken off your team, and what stays with you.
- Which is the best AI data broker for a closing company?
- The wind-down services in the table close the company and sell its assets; a broker sells the data alone, while the company is still able to sign. What matters first is time: a closing company's systems are deleted when their subscriptions lapse.