Mindrift: pay, who can join and open jobs
AI training and data services platform focused on LLM evaluation and human feedback, supporting the improvement and alignment of large language models through structured review and assessment tasks.
Who Mindrift is hiring right now
Who can join Mindrift: Most countries; excludes sanctioned ones plus China/HK, Kenya, Switzerland, Taiwan and ~40 others. 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$100–$300
- Respondent.io$150–$200
- Alpheva$90–$300
- Fleet AI$75–$200
- HUMXN$40–$300
- G2i$50–$200
- Halluminate$100–$250
- 10x Team$25–$375
- Stellar AI$25–$200
- mpathic$30–$200
- Workbolt$20–$250
- Workada$17–$130
- Rex.Zone$10–$150
- Patronus AI$40–$150
- RealTrainAI$48–$140
- Mercor$14–$450
- Sovrano AI$35–$125
- Ethos$35–$350
- Aura One$6–$500
- Afterquery$20–$200
- Mindrift$35–$100
- Micro1$6–$400
- Invisible$6–$150
- Alignerr$10–$400
- Visora$5–$90
- TransPerfect$29–$50
- Anyone AI$7–$150
- HumanSignal$13–$80
- BrainTrust$5–$150
- Appen$24–$100
- xAI$35–$35
- Lionbridge AI$20–$35
- SuperAnnotate$5–$33
- Volga Partners$5–$60
- HALO by Arise$5–$100
- Mindy Support$5–$25
- YPAI$11.5–$250
- LXT$20–$25
- Lifted (Upwork)$10–$110
- Welocalize$5–$105
- CloudFactory$17.5–$25
- RWS$5–$36
- Turing$15–$150
- Claru$5–$100
- TELUS$11–$14
- TSMG$13–$75
- Pasiflora AI$10–$40
How to get accepted at Mindrift
Application steps, the assessment and tips from people who got in.
Application steps
- Apply to a domain/project and join the talent pool
- Take the project assessment (unpaid, once per project)
- Some projects add an AI interview or HackerRank coding test
- Results by email: qualified or unsuccessful
- Wait for the project to release tasks
The assessment
Project-specific: writing prompts, evaluating responses, rewriting outputs, rubric scoring; plus MCQ domain tests, HackerRank for coding, some AI interviews. Often timed/proctored.
Requirements
Professional or academic expertise in the domain; strong written justification; no AI background needed. Failing one project does not block others.
Tips to get accepted
- Practice the four core activities: prompt creation, response evaluation, rewriting, rubric scoring
- Judge correctness, not fluency or tone
- Write substantive justifications and score consistently with the rubric
- Follow length, format and scope instructions exactly
- No AI tools, copying or tab switching in proctored tests - instant fail
- Make prompts hard but answerable, not impossible
How long it takes
Results usually within 2 business days, up to a week at busy times; tasks may come much later after qualifying.
Why people get rejected or stuck
- Failed assessments generally cannot be retaken
- Rushed or unsupported justifications, style over correctness
- Using AI or copying answers
- Qualified but no tasks because project is paused
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Latest Mindrift jobs
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About Mindrift
Mindrift is the AI-tutor platform from Toloka. It recruits writers, editors and domain experts to create and review data used to fine-tune large language models.
Work is freelance and project-based: you might write prompts that trip up a model, fact-check its answers, or produce expert-level explanations in your field. Projects are offered to qualified contributors in many countries and languages.
Tips before you apply
- Your profile (field, degree, languages) decides which projects you are invited to — fill it in completely.
- Volume comes in waves; joining several projects keeps your earnings steadier.
Official site: mindrift.ai
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