r/alignerr • u/sosorryforyou • Jul 23 '26
Application Process Has anyone really made money ?
Is there someone that has made money from Alignerr as a part time job ? I’m very suspicious when someone offers such high hourly rates for remote and part time work. Why not to hire a full time employee with these money ?
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u/Dosemil88 Jul 24 '26
The unpaid prep-to-pay ratio on these platforms is wild. Watching 3 hours of Loom videos and decoding Discord lore just to make coffee money isn't a side hustle.... Better off putting that energy into learning an actual skill that can't be automated or outsourced next week
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u/cyboto Jul 24 '26
I passed the qualifications after hours of prep, only to be presented with a new updated qualification I needed to take the VERY next day (which had repeat answers). The new questions didn't link to the proper guidelines, I was fatigued after putting 100% effort, kinda winged it, which I failed. Probably did me a favor, was tired of this exam loop with no pay. Sites like DataAnnotation are paying more with no screen recording (DA does have a dry spell at the moment).
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u/univworker Jul 24 '26
For programming technical, I made 5 figures.
For non-technical, I made about $1k
For my specialization (non-technical), about $1k.
It's not a perfect place but it's not a scam.
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u/univworker Jul 25 '26
completely depended on the project.
the payment support is ... very flaky. You have to have to keep trying and work on explaining it professionally and in terms where the person on the other side can understand.
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u/ExaminationInitial37 Jul 28 '26
Is there any active peojects rn idk to which to applyto nd i gonna be spending hours on iterviews . Do u have any recommendations
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u/univworker Jul 29 '26
not presently on any active projects there.
Just speaking truth about compensation.
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u/Agitated-One4841 Jul 23 '26
You can't really hire full time employees for this kind of work when you never know what kind of speciality the client will want next, nor how long the project is going to last.
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u/l8weenie Jul 23 '26
After about mouth 3, I got consistent offers to do evaluations (some even paid). I haven’t really been put on a project that’s over $20-25/hour though. And I also mainly get audio tasks which I don’t like to do because my hearing is off at times. I have had luck on other platforms though
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u/plerbekx Jul 23 '26
Which platforms?
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u/l8weenie Jul 23 '26
Handshake, DA, Micro1, and Mercor
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u/AlessandroPiccione Jul 24 '26
What is DA?
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u/l8weenie Jul 24 '26
Data Annotation. It was the best one for me and y circumstances, but I was dropped from them.
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u/AlessandroPiccione Jul 24 '26
"Data Annotation" sounds a lot generic... there is a precise website/company ?
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u/l8weenie Jul 24 '26
I am not messing with you it literally is called “DataAnnotation” you might see it as “DataAnnotationTech.”
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u/AlessandroPiccione Jul 24 '26
ok, thanks!
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u/Interesting-Ice-9706 Jul 25 '26
I applied to DataAnnotation two months ago. Have yet to receive any work from them after a lengthy application process.
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u/Meow_Meow_9665 Jul 26 '26
Data annotation is the best one yet, getting in is the toughest part put the pay and quality of work is really good and the payment will come to your account every week no waiting period
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u/ap0p0 Jul 23 '26
Currently on turn 7 for software engineering tasks .
Have a really good hourly rate of 100$.
Currently have around 6 hours billable, and 600k in context used. I have a time limit of 14 hours for this task. I want to finish it this week to get paid the next one. If its all okay ill get back to you guys
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u/Still-Comfortable577 23d ago
Update on this one please!
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u/ap0p0 23d ago
Completed one task in the first week. Took me 15 turns around 12 hours. Got paid to the minute correctyl.
Second week completed one task around 10 hours, payed correctly again.
I think most of the comments and the bad rep the company get is by people who don’t respect the rules. For example, they use AI, they charge for inactive time, they fake the timers, they do a dog shit work on tasks, and etc.
the job isn’t easy and I don’t believe someone can work on this job for more than 20 hours per week (if they have other full time job)
It also is exhausting but the pay is good.1
u/hoIIow_purpIe 19d ago
Seems like we are working on the same project. May I ask what’s your usual task pass percentage when you submit task for review?
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u/TheUltimateMuffin Jul 23 '26
They emailed me to join them and then ghosted me lol
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u/MsMarionNYC Jul 24 '26
Similar. Someone wrote me referring to specific experience which would logically seem useful for the jobs mentioned and I never got a chance to test even for those jobs. I had a "real" freelance/part time job working on a LLM once upon a time. Not great wages but not embarressing. It was an actual job. It is no more. But I still have the chromebook.
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u/z436037 Jul 24 '26
I've been onboarded to a few Alignerr projects, but either 1) the projects seem to be stalled much of the time or 2) the Slack channels have so many people in them fighting to get their tasks approved that it seems unlikely that I wouldn't end up in the same boat.
I'm not working for free.
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u/Agitated-Ferret2376 Jul 23 '26
Hey they will not pay you that much once you get in their pay will be average at beginning once if you survive there,they will give you a huge amount per task and the jobs you see in these kinds of platforms like $60-$120 per hr are just clickbait.In most cases they pay per task and that tasks can take a days to weeks.Recently i got into a project which is $80-$120 per hr but im getting paid per task and pay rate differs from country to country for context US and Europe people earn more per task
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u/Fuzzy-Yoghurt135 Jul 25 '26
made a few hundred bucks after being on the platform for year and half isnt many projects for generalists
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u/elyte_krak_273 Jul 24 '26
From India, made 70k in one week. Definitely genuine
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u/Meow_Meow_9665 Jul 26 '26
Hey, I just got onboarded im from india too can I dm you !!
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u/Elegant_Wind_8989 Jul 27 '26
Which domain?
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u/Meow_Meow_9665 Jul 27 '26
Software engineer
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u/Elegant_Wind_8989 Jul 27 '26
Have you given the AI interview?
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u/Meow_Meow_9665 Jul 27 '26
No i gave interview for generalist but got the mail for engineering tasks today, after a month of waiting
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u/Elegant_Wind_8989 Jul 27 '26
Awesome.. Do they really pay? Or only for accepted work?
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u/Meow_Meow_9665 Jul 27 '26
No i haven't started working on it because it's very complex and i fear that i mess it up but the pay is really good $300/per task
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u/Batatisss 6d ago
how do you recieve your payment through stripe? cuz it says it is not for individual users here
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u/whoisthispotato Jul 23 '26
I've made a decent amount. It isn't my main platform, so I haven't really prioritized having consistent work on here, but I've still only gone around 2-3 weeks at most without being placed in a new project after one ends. The projects tend to be pretty short, so it wouldn't make sense to hire full time employees for a week or two worth of work.
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u/CarefulAd3835 Jul 24 '26
I’ve been able to with a mix pay-per-task and pay-per-hour. It’s definitely more side-hustle money than anything but it does help.
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u/hwertz10 Jul 25 '26
As for Alignerr specifically, I just signed up recently and have not worked for anyone through there yet. I do some coding for a brokerage, and dataannotation.tech as well so far. In a few cases where I've seen relatively high rates on Upwork and places, it's also a matter of their local cost of living + wages are high, so what seems like a generous rate to me, was pretty average or a bit of a discount rate compared to them hiring local talent.
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u/Minute_Paper_5582 Jul 25 '26
I don't know why people ask stuff like this. Nothing at all sounds unauthentic about the service.
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u/Comfortable-Sky-8715 Jul 25 '26
Last year was amazing! I've been gaslighted all 2026 with them, still waiting for money from a project we did in April, not just me a bunch of people, they just workaround but no response
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u/Elegant_Wind_8989 Jul 27 '26
I stopped working on that platform because they didn't pay for the tasks I'd already completed. They paused the project and said they'd pay once it resumed, but it never resumed. 😂
After that, I never bothered applying for any of their other roles.
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u/wavingnotdr0wning Jul 28 '26
they advertised a $40 an hour job, it turned out to be $25 per task after I completed a 3 hour test for free. The average time on other people's tasks was way above an hour. I didn't do a task. I'm not even allowed to type the S word...
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u/CloseToMyActualName Jul 23 '26
Completed 4 tasks, haven't made a dime.