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Amazon Mechanical Turk vs Prolific

A side-by-side comparison of Amazon Mechanical Turk and Prolific — how they pay, where they work, and who they are for.

	Amazon Mechanical Turk The original microtask crowdwork platform from Amazon, where workers complete small human intelligence tasks l… Visit	Prolific A research platform where participants get paid to take part in academic studies and surveys. Researchers set… Visit
Type	Microtask sites like Amazon MTurk	Microtask sites like Amazon MTurk
Category	Microtasks & Data	Microtasks & Data
Vetted	No	No
Work from home	Yes	Yes
Fees	Requesters pay fees, workers keep the listed reward	—
Withdraw via	Amazon gift cards, Bank transfer (US)	PayPal
Availability	Worker sign-up limited by country	Selected countries
Founded	2005	2014
Headquarters	Seattle, Washington, United States	London, United Kingdom
Stock ticker	NASDAQ: AMZN (Amazon)	—
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