Alignerr vs Mercor
Side by side from today's live listings and each platform's own documentation. Plenty of people work on both.
| Alignerr | Mercor | |
|---|---|---|
| Live roles | 528 | 300 |
| Median hourly | $60 | $80 |
| Top rate | $400 | $450 |
| How it pays | Alignerr does not publish its pay schedule publicly. Third-party guides disagree (weekly through PayPal versus bi-weekly through Deel), so check the payment method on your own dashboard. | Weekly. Payouts for the prior work week are processed by Wednesday, mostly through Stripe (Wise where Stripe isn't offered). Stripe holds a first payout for 7 days, and banks can take 3 to 7 business days after a payout shows as paid. |
| Hiring | Apply to a listing, then complete an assessment. Most work is reviewed before it counts as payable. | You apply to a specific listing, upload a resume, then do a short AI interview. Some roles add a paid assessment or work trial. |
| Run by | Labelbox, the data-labeling software company, which runs Alignerr as its expert workforce. | Mercor, a San Francisco company that sells expert human data to AI labs. |
Median hourly by field
| Field | Alignerr | Mercor |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine & health | $55 (28) | $126 (26) |
| Mental health | n/a | $79 (2) |
| Law | $30 (4) | $100 (13) |
| Finance & accounting | $80 (47) | $90 (26) |
| Chemistry | $83 (13) | $85 (12) |
| Biology & life sciences | $70 (9) | $118 (5) |
| Physics | $45 (11) | $95 (12) |
| Math & statistics | $185 (23) | $70 (3) |
| General STEM | n/a | $50 (12) |
| Energy & earth sciences | $45 (10) | n/a |
| Business & operations | $49 (26) | $68 (22) |
| Engineering | $63 (17) | $84 (26) |
| Software & coding | $63 (84) | $65 (28) |
| Machine learning | $65 (15) | $103 (6) |
| Data & analytics | $80 (10) | $75 (4) |
| Cybersecurity | $50 (29) | $81 (6) |
| Design & media | $40 (5) | $63 (10) |
| Writing & editing | $80 (8) | $90 (1) |
| Languages & translation | $80 (37) | $50 (1) |
| Voice & audio | $24 (134) | $43 (33) |
| Teaching | n/a | $60 (2) |
| Humanities & policy | $80 (1) | $150 (5) |
| Generalist | $80 (17) | $55 (9) |
Number of hourly listings in brackets.