Mercor | Who Sells Data

Mercor

Mercor sells expert-created training data, reinforcement-learning environments, and evaluations and benchmarks to frontier AI labs and other AI developers. It also offers enterprise data licensing and evaluation services.

Source:mercor.com· Sep 29, 2026

mercor.com · updated Oct 13, 2026

On Who's buying data

Pays companies for data: No amounts published; pay depends on data volume and the tools connected (Mercor Data)

mercor.com · observed Oct 8, 2026 · Compare with other buyers

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The data your business generates every day is exactly what frontier labs need. We license it, package it, and pay you for it.

Referral bounty: Referral bonus; amount not published (Refer a company)

mercor.com · observed Oct 8, 2026 · Compare with other buyers

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Refer them to Mercor. When they become a paid partner, you get rewarded too.

Trust & data

How the vendor protects buyer material, where its data comes from, and where it can run.

SOC 2: Vendor-stated Type II
Source:trust.mercor.com· Sep 29, 2026
Trust center: trust.mercor.com
Source:trust.mercor.com· Sep 29, 2026
Other certifications: Microsoft SSPA alignment
Source:trust.mercor.com· Sep 29, 2026
Deployment: Vendor-hosted
Source:mercor.com· Sep 29, 2026
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Flexible Deployment Deploy Mercor in the environment that meets your security requirements, from managed deployments to customer-controlled infrastructure.
Data sources: Licensed real-world dataExpert or contractor-createdSynthetic / generated
Sources:mercor.com/data mercor.com/apex/off-the-shelf-data mercor.com/blog/introducing-apex-swe· Sep 29, 2026
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Licensed real-world data: The data your business generates every day is exactly what frontier labs need. We license it, package it, and pay you for it.
Expert or contractor-created: Every task is written by PhD researchers, practicing lawyers, and senior engineers, not crowdsourced.
Synthetic / generated: Engineers scripted synthetic logs (500 to 1,000 lines of normal operation mixed with 10-20 lines of bug symptoms) and chat history to replicate a production failure, as well as Dockerfiles, task metadata, and patches.
Stated confidentiality practices: Customer-approved scoped, read-only access; per-session isolated credentials; encryption and access logging; automated anonymization; contractor confidentiality agreements and background checks; customer data deletion upon exit.
Sources:mercor.com trust.mercor.com· Sep 29, 2026
Not publicly listed: Exclusivity

What they sell

Offerings: RL environments Human data Training data Evals and benchmarks
Sources:mercor.com/research mercor.com/apex/off-the-shelf-data· Oct 6, 2026
Domains: Multi-domain Finance Legal Medical Coding Browser Enterprise workflows
Sources:mercor.com/apex/off-the-shelf-data mercor.com/research· Sep 29, 2026
Delivery formats: DatasetsDocker containersManaged service
Sources:mercor.com/apex/off-the-shelf-data mercor.com/enterprise-evals· Sep 29, 2026
Public samples & benchmarks: APEX-Agents
APEX (APEX-v1)
APEX-SWE
Source:mercor.com· Sep 29, 2026
Named customers: OpenAIAnthropicMeta
Source:finance.yahoo.com· Sep 29, 2026

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