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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…
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Prolific
A research platform where participants get paid to take part in academic studies and surveys. Researchers set…
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| 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 | Researcher-set rewards, minimum ~$8/hour |
| 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) | — |
| Popularity | 60 views · 0 likes | 51 views · 0 likes |