Outlier vs Remotasks
Side by side from today's live listings and each platform's own documentation. Plenty of people work on both.
| Outlier | Remotasks | |
|---|---|---|
| Live roles | Behind login | Behind login |
| Median hourly | n/a | n/a |
| Top rate | n/a | n/a |
| How it pays | Weekly. Outlier says payments are processed every Tuesday through PayPal, AirTM or ACH, and arrive anywhere from a few minutes to a few days later depending on the method. Its blog puts project pay between $10 and $50 an hour, with the rate shown before you start. | Per its terms, you're paid after completed tasks are verified, to an approved payment method that can receive US dollars. Remotasks doesn't publish a schedule or rates we can cite; treat any rate you see as specific to that task. |
| Hiring | Sign up at outlier.ai, complete onboarding and skill assessments, then projects appear in your dashboard. | Sign up at remotasks.com where it's still open, complete the free training course for a task type, then take tasks. In some countries the sign-up page now directs you to Outlier instead. |
| Run by | Scale AI, which runs Outlier as its contributor platform. | Scale AI, which set up Remotasks in 2017 for data-labeling work and now runs its generative-AI projects through Outlier. |