Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk)
Cloud-based
United States
Description
Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a well-known platform. It originates from the United States and operates in various countries including Australia. Common use cases include Image/Video processing, Data Verification, and Clean-up, Information Gathering, Data Processing.MTurk enables companies to harness the collective intelligence, skills, and insights from a global workforce to streamline business processes, augment data collection and analysis, and accelerate machine learning development.Anyone can submit virtually any task that can be completed using a computing device connected to the Internet.
Platform website
Self-description (from their website)
Human intelligence through an API
Access a global, on-demand, 24x7 workforce
Skill levels and worker requirements
Low skilled
Most be over 18 years of age
Access to a computing device connected to the internet
Pay setting
By requestor
Platform revenue derived from
20% fee on the reward and bonus amount (if any) you pay Workers.
HITs with 10 or more assignments will be charged an additional 20% fee on the reward you pay Workers.
The minimum fee is $0.01 per assignment or bonus payment.