Amazon Mechanical Turk in charts
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Money
What you pay, what you keep and how you get paid
Amazon Mechanical Turk pays out 2 ways. Its rarest is Amazon gift cards, which no other microtask sites we track offer.
Open full chart Minimum payout vs other platformsAmazon Mechanical Turk lets you withdraw from $0 (no minimum), a lower minimum than 71% of the 170 platforms in the directory with a dollar minimum (median $10).
Open full chart Earnings figures2 sourced figures for Amazon Mechanical Turk, including typical earnings.
Open full chartJoining
Who can sign up, and where
Amazon Mechanical Turk accepts people in 196 of 200 countries and territories, all except Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria.
Open full chart Country reach vs peersOpen in 196 countries and territories, Amazon Mechanical Turk reaches more places than 100% of the 6 microtask sites with known country rules (median 1).
Open full chartQuality
Ratings, badges, reviews and how much we know
Rated 3.4/5. Ahead of the microtask sites average on getting paid, access and proof of earnings.
Open full chart Rating percentilesAmazon Mechanical Turk scores above every other one of the microtask sites on access, its strongest part.
Open full chart Achievements vs the typeAmazon Mechanical Turk has 60 of 100 achievement points from 8 badges; the average for microtask sites is 23.4.
Open full chart Web traffic rank vs peersmturk.com ranks #31,476 on the web, more visited than 47% of the 15 microtask sites we have a rank for.
Open full chart Profile completeness vs the typeWe have 77% of what we track for Amazon Mechanical Turk, against an average of 54% for microtask sites.
Open full chartHistory
How old it is and what has happened since
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