22 buyers · fees checked October 11, 2026
Sell data to AI companies
Sell data to AI companies through the 22 buyers below: data buyers, publisher networks and marketplaces that pay data owners and license to AI labs. Search by the data you have.
- Reddit data deals $203.0M · 2024 filing
- Wiley AI licensing $40M · FY2025
- News Corp → OpenAI $250M+ · reported
- Informa → Microsoft $10M+ upfront
- Dotdash Meredith → OpenAI $16M+/yr · reported
- HarperCollins → Microsoft $5,000/title · reported
- AWS Data Exchange fee 3%
- micro1 gross run rate $500M · reported
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FileYield
Describe your data in plain language and get found by AI buyers. FileYield is free to list, needs no file upload, and lets you set price, license and exclusivity directly with each buyer.
- Free to list
- Your files stay with you
- AI listing assistant
- Buyer outreach
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22 companies that buy data for AI
Each one is a way to sell data to AI companies, listed with who it buys from and how sellers get paid, exactly as published. "Not published" means the company doesn't say.
Fees and payout terms checked October 11, 2026 on each company's own pages. Click a name for its profile.
Ways to sell
Four ways to sell data to AI companies
How you sell depends on what you hold. A field-service company, a publisher and a hospital network each go through a different door.
List it
Describe the dataset, get found and negotiate each deal. FileYield, AWS Data Exchange, Opendatabay.
Sell to a buyer
A data company licenses it and supplies AI labs. micro1, Protege, Troveo, Defined.ai.
Join a publisher network
Set terms once and get paid per crawl, query or output. TollBit, Dappier, RSL, Microsoft.
Sign direct
Big platforms deal straight with the labs, like Reddit with Google and News Corp with OpenAI.
Data buyers
Companies that buy data →Best for: Companies with datasets to license: records, audio, images, video, documents
- Free to list
- No file upload needed
- Buyer outreach
- 2,566 data types
FileYield is a marketplace where organizations describe datasets they could license, get found by AI buyers and negotiate directly. Listing is free, takes about two minutes with an AI listing assistant and needs no file upload, so the data stays in your systems. FileYield can also run targeted outreach to buyer categories when an approved listing matches a need. Price, license type, exclusivity and delivery are agreed between buyer and seller.
Best for: Companies with operational data: SOPs, CRM records, project histories
- Pays for operational data
- Scope and redaction agreed first
- $500M gross run rate (reported)
micro1 is a data lab that makes expert human data, RL environments and evaluations for frontier AI labs. Its data partnerships program licenses companies' operational data, such as SOPs, knowledge bases, CRM data, project histories and QA processes. The data scope, anonymization and internal approvals are agreed before anything is shared. TechCrunch reported in August 2026 that micro1 reached a $500 million gross run rate.
Best for: Healthcare and media data owners
- $25M Series A, Aug 2025
- 100+ data partners
Protege licenses proprietary real-world data, mostly clinical, imaging and media, from data owners to AI developers. It raised a $25 million Series A in August 2025 and says it has 100+ data partners and has generated tens of millions in revenue for them.
Best for: Companies and creators with unpublished video, audio or games
- 8M+ hours of video
- 1,000+ game titles
Troveo licenses non-public video, audio and gaming data from companies and creators to AI labs. It lists 350+ company datasets, more than 8 million hours of video and 4 million hours of audio in its library. Payout terms aren't published.
Best for: YouTube creators and film and TV rights holders
- Non-exclusive training licenses
- 35,000+ hours of film and TV
Calliope licenses film, TV and YouTube video to AI companies for training. Its licenses are non-exclusive and exclude exhibition rights. Creators are paid a revenue share by a formula based on volume and subscriber count; the percentage isn't published.
Best for: Authors and book rights holders
- Authors Guild partner
- Launched Jan 2025
Created by Humans licenses books to AI companies, bundling training, reference and transformative rights under one agreement. It launched in January 2025 as an official AI licensing partner of the Authors Guild. Its split isn't published.
Best for: Creators, publishers and rights holders
- Acquired by Cloudflare, Jan 2026
Human Native brokered licensed text, image, video and audio between rights holders and AI developers. Cloudflare announced it acquired the company in January 2026, with terms not disclosed, as part of its content offering to AI companies.
Publisher licensing networks
How AI data licensing works →Best for: Publishers and website owners
- Bot paywall
- Summary or full-display licenses
TollBit sits between a publisher's site and AI bots, serving bots separately and letting AI companies license pages for summaries or full display. Its own site promises usage-based pricing on the publisher's terms. A News Media Help Desk guide reports that publishers set a rate per 1,000 pages and pay no upfront or monthly fee.
Best for: Publishers and media companies with live content feeds
- Agent storefront
- Ads inside AI answers
Dappier sells publishers' content to AI agents and apps through priced APIs, and runs ads inside AI answers. Its agent storefront lists publisher APIs such as Benzinga and WISH-TV. TechCrunch reported in 2024 that publishers can price content per query, much like a CPM rate.
Best for: Website owners already on Cloudflare
- Allow, charge or block each crawler
- Private beta
Cloudflare lets site owners allow, charge or block each AI crawler and set a flat price per request. Cloudflare acts as merchant of record: it bills the crawler operator and pays the earnings to the site owner. It's in private beta, and Cloudflare's own cut isn't published.
Best for: News and magazine publishers
- Copilot and Yahoo as buyers
- AP, Condé Nast, Vox Media
Microsoft Advertising's marketplace lets publishers set terms for AI builders that use their content to ground AI answers, with Microsoft Copilot and Yahoo named as early buyers. Microsoft says publishers are paid on delivered value and get usage reports. Named publishers include the Associated Press, Condé Nast and Vox Media.
Best for: Online publishers, platforms and licensing agencies
- Nonprofit
- Reddit, Medium, Stack Overflow
RSL Collective is a nonprofit that pools publishers' content and licenses it to AI companies under the RSL Standard, collecting royalties each time a work feeds an AI output. Joining is free. Named members and supporters include Reddit, Yahoo, Medium, Stack Overflow and MIT Press. Royalty rates aren't published.
Best for: Publishers and rightsholders of articles, books and research
- AI Systems Training License
- Non-exclusive
Copyright Clearance Center offers voluntary, non-exclusive collective licenses for AI uses of copyrighted content, including an AI Systems Training License for companies building AI. Participating rightsholders, mostly publishers, receive royalties for use of their works.
Best for: News publishers and content creators
- 1,000+ publications
- 50/50 ad revenue
ProRata builds attribution technology and the Gist AI search and ad products, and shares the resulting ad revenue 50/50 with participating publishers, split by contribution. It says 1,000+ publications and creators have signed on.
Data marketplaces
AI data marketplace guide →Best for: Companies already selling to AWS customers
- 3% on public offers
- Terms of 1 to 36 months
- Paid monthly
AWS Data Exchange lets registered AWS Marketplace sellers license files, APIs and Redshift or S3 data to AWS customers as subscriptions or private offers. The listing fee is 3% of contract value on public offers. Private offers pay 3% under $1 million, 2% up to $10 million and 1.5% above that. AWS pays sellers monthly, minus fees.
Best for: Data providers selling AI training data self-serve
- Free to list
- Keep 70% to 95%
- $50 payout minimum
Opendatabay is a UK marketplace for licensed AI training and fine-tuning data. Listing is free. Its fee schedule, updated October 6, 2026, takes 30% of sales up to $100, sliding to 5% at $250,000 and up, so sellers keep 70% to 95%. Commission also applies to introduced deals closed off the platform. Payouts come within 30 days of month end.
Best for: Companies whose buyers already run Snowflake
- Per-query or subscription
- Live data shares
Snowflake Marketplace shares live data and apps with other Snowflake accounts, free or paid. Paid listings can charge per query, a monthly fee or a subscription. Payouts run through Stripe at no extra cost to providers, according to Snowflake. Its commission isn't published in the provider docs.
Best for: Approved providers whose buyers run Databricks
- Delta Sharing
- Buyers can use commit funds
Databricks Marketplace shares datasets, notebooks, AI models and MCP servers through Delta Sharing and Unity Catalog. Databricks customers can put up to 10% of their committed spend toward eligible third-party products there. Its commission isn't published.
Best for: B2B data providers that want to be found by buyers
- Berlin, founded 2018
- Buyer data requests
Datarade is a Berlin B2B data marketplace where providers list data products and buyers compare them, request samples and post data requests. Its categories include AI training data alongside financial, geospatial and commerce data. We couldn't read its provider pricing page, so no commission is listed here.
Best for: Companies with speech, text, image or video data
- Founded 2015, Seattle
- Partners earning $1M+ a year
Defined.ai sells ready-made AI training datasets and custom data collection, and third-party partners license their datasets through its marketplace. It reported a 1,200% rise in partner datasets in 2025 and said several partners earn more than $1 million a year from licensing. Its revenue split isn't published.
Best for: Data providers that want buyer requests matched to them
- Founded 2020
- 5,600+ providers
Nomad Data matches buyers' data requests to providers and helps companies manage the data they license. It says it works with 5,600+ data providers and doesn't need access to a provider's data to make a match. Pricing isn't published.
Best for: Data providers with images, video, documents or audio
- Third-party datasets
- Medical and OCR data
PIXTA AI is a dataset marketplace that lists third-party providers' datasets next to its own, for companies and researchers buying AI training data. It invites outside parties to become data providers but doesn't publish a revenue split.
Get it ready
Specialists who get data ready to sell
Before you list, these companies remove personal details, parse documents into clean records and curate what's worth selling.
See all 14 on the data anonymization page.
Before you list
How to sell data to AI companies
Buyers ask the same questions every time. Have the answers ready before you sell data to AI companies, and the first call gets much shorter.
- Confirm your rightsCheck that you own the data or can license it, and flag personal data, customer contracts and consent limits.
- Describe the datasetFormat, volume, time range, how it was collected and how it's stored. Buyers pay for provenance and freshness, not just size.
- Pick your termsExclusive or not, training or display, how long, and whether the buyer keeps a copy. See AI data licensing.
Guides
Guides to selling and licensing AI data
Companies that buy data
Who pays for company data, what they want and how they pay.
See the buyers →
AI data licensing deals
12 disclosed deals, from Reddit and News Corp to Wiley, with what was paid.
See the deals →
Data valuation
Three accepted methods and the real prices buyers have paid.
Value your data →
AI data marketplaces
Fees, payouts and who can sell on each marketplace.
Compare marketplaces →
AI data licensing
Exclusivity, term, payment and training versus display rights.
Read the guide →
How we pick
Where every fee and figure comes from, and how a company gets listed.
Our method →Questions
Common questions
Who buys company data for AI?
Two kinds of companies. Data buyers like micro1, Protege and Troveo license data from companies and supply it to AI labs. Marketplaces like FileYield, AWS Data Exchange and Opendatabay let you list it and deal with buyers directly. Publishers also have licensing networks such as TollBit, RSL Collective and Microsoft's Publisher Content Marketplace.
How much do AI companies pay for data?
It ranges widely. Reddit's S-1 put its January 2024 data deals at $203.0 million combined over two to three years, and Wiley reported $40 million of AI licensing revenue in fiscal 2025. The Information reported in July 2026 that data startups were paying HVAC companies $150,000 for data. See AI data licensing deals.
Do I have to hand over my data to sell it?
Not at first. FileYield lists data from a description, with no file upload. micro1 agrees the data scope, anonymization and approvals before anything is shared. Cloud marketplaces like AWS Data Exchange deliver data inside their platforms once a buyer subscribes.
What kind of company data do AI buyers want?
micro1's data partnerships page lists SOPs, knowledge bases, CRM data, project histories, QA processes and human feedback on AI outputs. Protege focuses on healthcare and media data, Troveo on unpublished video, audio and games, and publisher networks on articles and books.
Sources
- FileYield: how it works
- micro1: data partnerships
- TechCrunch: micro1 reaches $500M gross run rate (Aug 2026)
- The Information: data startups paying HVAC companies $150,000 (Jul 2026)
- AWS Marketplace listing fees
- Opendatabay fee schedule
- Cloudflare: what is pay per crawl
- RSL Collective: fair pay
- Microsoft Advertising: Publisher Content Marketplace (Feb 2026)
- Reddit S-1 (data licensing)
- Wiley fiscal 2025 results (SEC)
Checked October 11, 2026. Prices, programs and job postings change, so confirm on each page.