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Prices per task behind every valuation of a task set
Every current row of the price ledger that prices one training task: what labs, vendors and marketplaces pay for a task, and what task builders are paid. A set is priced from those in its own field when the ledger holds enough of them. Market records version 2026-10-16.0fa08525.
Updated 16 Oct 2026, from its newest record.
The 35 records it is computed from, largest first
- Amount$400KAs stated$400k+ per year ... 1 good task per weekDated9 Jul 2026SourceSemiAnalysis, The Future of Meta…
- Amount$32KAs stated$50 bug fixes to $32,000 feature implementations; $1 million total across…Dated17 Feb 2025SourceOpenAI (SWE-Lancer paper, arXiv)
- One especially complex software-engineering RL task with its grader (upper end reported to Epoch AI)Amount$20KAs stated$20k per task would be rare but possibleDated12 Jan 2026SourceEpoch AI, An FAQ on reinforcement learning…
- Amount$19.9KAs stated£3000-£15,000 for a successful taskDated5 Nov 2024SourceUK AI Security Institute, evals bounty (blog)
- Amount$10KAs statedfrom $50 to $10,000 per taskDated15 Oct 2026SourceSequoia Capital podcast, Brendan Foody (Mercor):…
- Amount$5KAs stated$5000+ per coding task (a floor: 'plus')Dated9 Jul 2026SourceSemiAnalysis, The Future of Meta…
- Amount$4.5KAs statedthe base price would be $3000 ... pay $4500 overall per task implementationDated16 Dec 2023SourceMETR, Bounty: Diverse hard tasks for LLM agents
- Amount$2.4KAs stated$2,400 for each RL task per RL task, compute over its lifeDated18 Aug 2025SourceMechanize, Cheap RL tasks will waste compute
- Amount$2.2KAs stated$2.2K per task per task, about 25 hours of workDated6 Oct 2026SourceMercor job board, Database Systems Evaluation…
- Amount$2KAs stated$2,000 per taskDated15 Oct 2026SourceSequoia Capital podcast, Brendan Foody (Mercor):…
- Amount$2KAs stated$200 to $2,000 per taskDated12 Jan 2026SourceEpoch AI
- Amount$1.9KAs statedapproximately $1,855 per expert attempt (8-hour task)Dated27 May 2025SourcearXiv, RE-Bench (v2)
- Amount$1.8KAs statedUp to $1,800 USD/task per task, typically 6 to 7 hoursDated16 Oct 2026SourceOutlier AI (with Scale AI), Terminal-Bench…
- Amount$1.5KAs stateda $1,500 cost basis per taskDated15 Oct 2026SourceSequoia Capital podcast, Brendan Foody (Mercor):…
- Amount$1.5KAs statedaround $500 to $1,500 a task per task, with hundreds to thousands of tasks per…Dated14 Oct 2026SourceDataVendor (HUD) docs, What you can sell (the…
- Amount$1.4KAs statedUp to $1,350 USD/task per task (paid to the contributor)Dated11 Oct 2026SourceOutlier (Scale AI)
- Amount$1KAs statedEarn $1,000 / task per task (paid to the contributor)Dated11 Oct 2026SourceTerac, Corporate Finance Professionals: Build RL…
- Amount$500As stated~$500 per RL task now, rising roughly fivefold to a few thousand dollars…Dated18 Aug 2025SourceMechanize
- Amount$400As stated$400 in API credits per rollout on one paperDated7 Apr 2025SourcearXiv, PaperBench (v3)
- Amount$300As statedPay per task - $300 per approved taskDated25 Sep 2026SourceAITraining.jobs, Turing Scientific Computing…
- Amount$300As stated$300 per approved taskDated21 Sep 2026SourceAITraining.jobs, Turing Software Engineer with…
- Amount$300As stated$300 per approved task, roughly 4 hours of work eachDated3 Sep 2026SourceAITraining.jobs, AfterQuery Scientific Computing…
- Amount$300As statedEarn $300 per accepted task. Each successfully accepted task pays $50Dated26 May 2026SourceAITraining.jobs, AfterQuery Cybersecurity Expert…
- Private agent-evaluation task for METR, priced by the hours a professional would need to complete itAmount$300As stated$300 per hour it would take a professional to complete the taskDatedNov 2024SourceMETR Task Development Guide, Introduction
- Amount$280As statedup to $280 per task per task, typically about an hourDated1 Jun 2026SourceLet's Data Science, summary of Business Insider:…
- Amount$260As stated$260 per approved taskDated17 Sep 2026SourceAITraining.jobs, Turing Bioinformatics /…
- Amount$200As stated$200 per approved task, about 2 hours eachDated1 Oct 2026SourceAITraining.jobs, AfterQuery Scientific…
- Amount$150As stated$150 per approved taskDated6 Oct 2026SourceAITraining.jobs, Turing Bioinformatics /…
- Amount$130As stated$130 per approved taskDated25 Aug 2026SourceMercor job board, Software Engineer, Python:…
- Amount$100As stated$50-100/hour, ~15 hours per run per hour, about 15 hours per taskDated14 Oct 2026Sourcemicro1 job board, Software Engineer (GitHub…
- Amount$75As stated$75 per task that is fully approvedDated14 Oct 2026SourceHandshake job posting by AfterQuery, University…
- Amount$50As stated$50 USD per taskDated26 Aug 2026SourceTechstars job board, Careerflow: AI/ML Software…
- Amount$30As statedUS$ 30 per approved task per approved task, about 40 minutes eachDated15 Oct 2026SourceAITraining.jobs, Vetto job posting: Coding, Data…
- Amount$1As statedUSD 0.6 per taskDated4 Oct 2025SourcearXiv, OpenCUA (v3), Appendix C.2
- Amount$0As statedpays $0.216 per task (about 1 minute each)Dated14 Feb 2026Sourcemicro1, Mobile Agent QA Evaluator (Android)