YPAI: pay, who can join and open jobs
Freelance portal of YPAI (Your Personal AI AS, Lysaker, Norway), an AI data and evaluation vendor that collects speech, video, photo and text data and hires annotators, transcribers, translators, model evaluators and medical or legal experts. US rates on its roles page run about $16 to $40 per hour (local-currency rates elsewhere), and contributors build one profile and get project invitations by email. Pay is every two weeks after approved work via PayPal, Wise or bank transfer, with no fees.
Who can join YPAI
Hires in: Worldwide. Roles page lists 1266 openings across 242 countries and 20 languages, each scoped to one country or region with local-currency pay; work is by invitation after profile review. Source
How you get paid: PayPal, Wise, Bank transfer (every two weeks after approved work). Source
Hourly pay by platform: lowest, median and highest
Based on open jobs with hourly pay listed on aitrainer.jobs. The bar runs from the lowest to the highest rate; the dot is the median.
- Scale AI Human Frontier Collective$300–$300
- Respondent.io$80–$200
- 10x Team$25–$375
- Stellar AI$25–$200
- mpathic$30–$200
- Workbolt$20–$250
- Workada$17–$130
- Rex.Zone$15–$150
- RealTrainAI$48–$140
- Afterquery$20–$200
- Mercor$30–$350
- Sovrano AI$35–$125
- Ethos$35–$350
- Aura One$6–$500
- Micro1$15–$150
- Mindrift$35–$100
- Invisible$5–$150
- Alignerr$10–$400
- TransPerfect$29–$58
- Anyone AI$7–$150
- Pasiflora AI$11–$40
- Appen$24–$100
- xAI$35–$35
- BrainTrust$5–$150
- Lionbridge AI$20–$35
- SuperAnnotate$5–$33
- HumanSignal$13–$80
- LXT$20–$25
- Lifted (Upwork)$10–$110
- Welocalize$5–$105
- CloudFactory$17.5–$25
- Volga Partners$5–$60
- RWS$5–$36
- Turing$15–$150
- Claru$5–$100
- TELUS$11–$14
How to get accepted at YPAI
Application steps, the assessment and tips from people who got in.
Application steps
- Create a profile at freelancer.ypai.ai (Google sign-in) choosing work types
- Add languages, location, equipment (audio/video setup, devices), availability and domains
- YPAI reviews every profile by hand
- Selected contributors get a project invitation by email with scope, rate, schedule and acceptance criteria
- Accept or decline each project; sign the project agreement before recording
The assessment
No general test stated; manual profile review and project-specific criteria (language, accent, equipment, credentials for medical/legal roles).
Requirements
18+, phone or computer, languages used confidently; project-specific equipment (camera, microphone) and for experts a licence or degree.
Tips to get accepted
- List every language and dialect you use confidently; language is often the main qualification
- Describe your audio and video setup precisely
- Apply to the listing for your own country so pay is shown in your currency
- Declining an invitation does not close your profile
How long it takes
Not stated; invitations arrive only when a matching project opens.
Why people get rejected or stuck
- Profile does not match current project needs (language, location, equipment)
- Work failing project acceptance criteria is not paid
Sources: freelancer.ypai.ai · freelancer.ypai.ai · freelancer.ypai.ai · ypai.ai
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