OpenTrain AI vs Remotasks
Side by side from today's live listings and each platform's own documentation.
| OpenTrain AI | Remotasks | |
|---|---|---|
| Live roles | 672 | Behind login |
| Median hourly | $55 | n/a |
| Top rate | $400 | n/a |
| How it pays | OpenTrain says it is free for freelancers, with no fees or subscriptions. Clients fund each milestone before work starts, and OpenTrain pays out to your connected payout method when the client approves the milestone. It doesn't publish a fixed payout schedule. | Remotasks doesn't publish a pay schedule or rates we can cite, and its old terms page is no longer online. Treat any rate you see as specific to that task. |
| Hiring | Create a free profile with your domains, languages and hourly rate, then apply to listings. Some listings hire through OpenTrain; others link you straight to the hiring platform. | Sign up at remotasks.com where it's still open; availability varies by country. |
| Run by | OpenTrain AI, a freelance marketplace that connects AI trainers with companies and data platforms that need them. | Scale AI, which runs Remotasks as a task platform for data-labeling work. |
Median hourly by field
| Field | OpenTrain AI | Remotasks |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine & health | $90 (42) | n/a |
| Mental health | $150 (8) | n/a |
| Law | $125 (61) | n/a |
| Finance & accounting | $90 (38) | n/a |
| Chemistry | $69 (12) | n/a |
| Biology & life sciences | $70 (9) | n/a |
| Physics | $75 (11) | n/a |
| Math & statistics | $25 (18) | n/a |
| Energy & earth sciences | $60 (4) | n/a |
| Business & operations | $60 (38) | n/a |
| Engineering | $60 (44) | n/a |
| Software & coding | $65 (69) | n/a |
| Machine learning | $90 (24) | n/a |
| Data & analytics | $20 (39) | n/a |
| Cybersecurity | $70 (7) | n/a |
| Design & media | $53 (12) | n/a |
| Writing & editing | $60 (8) | n/a |
| Languages & translation | $25 (108) | n/a |
| Voice & audio | $20 (42) | n/a |
| Teaching | $20 (3) | n/a |
| Humanities & policy | $65 (10) | n/a |
| Generalist | $40 (46) | n/a |
Number of hourly listings in brackets.