Ethos vs Handshake AI vs Terac
Pick two or three companies and see their pay, payout methods, who they hire and how to get in, side by side. Pay comes from live job listings on aitrainer.jobs when we have them, otherwise from the company's own pages.
| Open jobs | 532 open jobs | 237 open jobs | 60 open jobs |
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| Pay | $70–$100/hr, median $80/hr (from 531 listings) | about $22–$500/hr; entry tasks $22–$50/hr, PhD and medical roles $200–$500/hr (reported by workers and review sites) | $15–$420/hr, median $85/hr (from 4 listings) |
| Payout | Wise | Stripe (weekly) | Bank transfer, Whop, Virtual Incentives (on demand (project work on project schedule, e.g. weekly) · min $12.50) |
| Who can join | Worldwide — Worldwide wherever Wise works; not available in Wise-restricted countries such as Russia, Belarus, Iran, Cuba, Syria, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Myanmar and occupied Ukrainian regions | United States — Work must be done from within the US and its territories | Worldwide — Open globally, but many studies are restricted to specific countries by the client |
| Type of work | Medicine & health, Law, Finance & business, Coding, Math & science, Writing & AI rating | Medicine & health, Finance & business, Math & science, Writing & AI rating, Data labeling | Medicine & health, Finance & business, Coding, Paid studies, Data labeling |
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| Assessment | No skills test. Conversational AI voice interview, about 15-30 min, not pass/fail; it builds your profile for matching. Can be split over several calls. | No single entry test. Each project has its own: quiz on training materials, reviewed practice task, or written/skills test in your field. Usually no retakes; unpaid. | No single entry test: a ~10-min AI voice interview for matching, then per-opportunity screening questions; some guides report domain tests for experts. |
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