Lin Hsin Hsin Intelligence Center



AI Data Laundromat Worldwide
by Cleaning Methods







Company Country City/ Operating Hub Headcount Cleaning Method Payment per Text (USD) Total Payout To-date (USD)
Appen Australia 🇦🇺 Sydney 100,000+ Hybrid Human + QA Review 0.03 – 0.10 1,000,000,000+
Remotasks USA 🇺🇸 Remote Global 50,000+ RLHF, Prompt Evaluation 0.02 – 0.08 300,000,000+
Remotasks USA 🇺🇸 San Francisco 50,000+ Manual Text Labeling + RLHF 0.02 – 0.08 300,000,000+
Scale AI USA 🇺🇸 San Francisco 8,000 Human-in-the-Loop Validation 0.05 – 0.15 600,000,000+
CloudFactory Nepal 🇳🇵 Kathmandu 7,000+ Distributed Text Cleaning 0.02 – 0.06 120,000,000+
Lionbridge AI Ireland 🇮🇪 Dublin 6,000 Linguistic Data Cleaning 0.04 – 0.12 400,000,000+
Invisible AI USA 🇺🇸 New York 4,000 Enterprise Data Operations (Text Cleaning) 0.06 – 0.20 150,000,000+
Sama Kenya 🇰🇪 Nairobi 3,500 Manual Human Annotation (Text, Toxicity, NLP) 0.02 – 0.06 50,000,000+
iMerit India 🇮🇳 Kolkata 3,200+ High-Precision Text Annotation 0.03 – 0.09 250,000,000+
Teemo China 🇨🇳 Beijing 3000 Manual Multilingual Annotation 0.01 – 0.05 200,000,000+
Teemo China🇨🇳 Beijing 2000+ Mandarin NLP Cleaning 0.01 – 0.04 200,000,000+
Scale AI USA 🇺🇸 San Francisco 2500+ RLHF, Human-in-the-Loop QA 0.08 – 0.15 600,000,000+
Majorel AI Ops South Africa 🇿🇦 Cape Town 2200+ Content Review, NLP QA 0.03 – 0.07 110,000,000+
Sama Kenya 🇰🇪 Nairobi 2300+ Toxicity Filtering, NLP 0.02 – 0.05 50,000,000+
Scale AI Philippines 🇵🇭 Manila 1500+ English NLP, QA Review 0.04 – 0.08 Included Global
Scale AI Kenya 🇰🇪 Nairobi 1200+ Content Moderation, Text Cleaning 0.03 – 0.06 Included Global
Sama Uganda 🇺🇬 Kampala 1200+ Text Labeling, Moderation 0.02 – 0.05 Included Above
Scale AI Remote 🌎 Global Distributed 1900+ RLHF Prompt Review 0.05 – 0.10 Included Global
DataForce Nigeria 🇳🇬 Lagos 1800+ Multilingual Data Cleaning 0.02 – 0.04 90,000,000+
iMerit India 🇮🇳 Coimbatore 1800+ Linguistic QA 0.03 – 0.08 Included Above
Scale AI Singapore 🇸🇬 Singapore 900+ Asian Language NLP, RLHF 0.06 – 0.12 Included Global
Turnkey Africa Ghana 🇬🇭 Accra 900+ Text Normalization 0.02 – 0.04 40,000,000+
Teemo China 🇨🇳 Shenzhen 1000+ Multilingual Text Tagging 0.01 – 0.05 Included Above



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All Numbers Are Industry Estimates