Mercor
A human resource data platform for the AI field, its official website states that it has built a network of professionals such as doctors, lawyers, and engineers, providing data annotation, model evaluation datasets, human evaluation and agent training services for cutting-edge laboratories and enterprises.
Updated: 2026-10-26
What is Mercor?
The official homepage of Mercor only has one positioning statement: "Mercor is organizing human intelligence to power the AI economy." The subtitle states that it is providing cutting-edge research, AI benchmarks, and agent training support at scale for top AI labs and enterprises. Its form is quite unique-it is not a traditional SaaS, but instead organizes experts as supply-side resources: individuals can view roles priced by the hour and released by professional direction on the official website and apply for them, while institutions purchase the human-generated data and evaluation capabilities. Three lines of Research, Enterprise, and Experts are also displayed on the official website at the same time. Experts targets service providers, Enterprise targets buyers, and Research is its self-built benchmark system.
Who is it for?
- Qualified individuals-doctors, lawyers, engineers, accountants, consultants-who want to take orders from the expert positions listed on the official website. The Expert section shows an average contracted hourly wage of $109.
- AI laboratories that require high-quality human data and evaluation datasets.
- Enterprise teams that want to turn their industry expertise into AI capabilities, with this line of service including benchmark construction and human evaluation.
- Enterprises that already have business process data and wish to monetize it compliantly.
Key features
5Expert Position Market
The official website features a "Latest roles" section, with sample roles including Outpatient and Community Healthcare Insight Research (priced at $90), Data Science Specialist ($100–150/hr), Applied Physics Benchmark Specialist ($61–77/hr), and more.
APEX Benchmark Suite
According to the official website, the APEX series is used to evaluate whether cutting-edge models can complete economically valuable tasks in professional services, medicine and software engineering, including APEX-Agents, APEX-Accounting (in collaboration with Ramp on annotations) and APEX-SWE.
Human data & evals
The official website states that it has over 30,000 experts (doctors, lawyers, engineers, consultants). Its benchmarks and reinforcement learning environments are built on real professional work, and it provides manual evaluations relied on by cutting-edge labs.
Data monetization
The official website states that it can automatically anonymize and obscure over 60 categories of data, turning the enterprise's existing workflow data into a new source of revenue.
Four Paths
The official website summarizes the products into Find work, Evaluate AI, Build evals, and Deploy agents.
How to use Mercor
- First, clarify which side you are on: For freelancing, check Experts and Latest roles.
- for procurement and research, check Enterprise and Research.
- The two sets of processes are completely different.
- The hourly wages and the number of hires listed on the official website are dynamic data.
- The interview and application conditions shall be subject to the role descriptions listed on the official website at that time.
- Do not estimate your expected income based on the average value.
- Before handing over your enterprise workflow data to a third party, be sure to first check the official website's explanation on the scope of anonymization and data retention.
- the official website mentions automatic masking for over 60 categories, but you need to verify for yourself whether sensitive fields are fully covered.
- The financing and valuation information in the official website's Journal is independently released by the company, which can be used as background reference but does not constitute investment advice.
- the terms and data policies are subject to the latest official website specifications.
Traffic & popularity
Data month Sep 2026
Mercor receives about 16.5M visits per month and ranks #2,546 worldwide.
Monthly visits
12 monthsTraffic sources
- Direct54.2%
- Search13.8%
- Social9.9%
- Mail8.9%
- Referrals7.4%
- Other5.7%
Top countries
- United States36.7%
- India13.0%
- United Kingdom9.1%
- Canada8.0%
- Nigeria5.2%
Estimated from third-party traffic data.
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