--- title: "Mercor: what they buy and what they pay" url: https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/mercor/ site: https://www.brightinfo.com/ description: "What Mercor buys, what it pays and its deal terms, from public sources with a link for every fact. Last verified November 3, 2026." last_updated: 2026-11-03 --- # Mercor: what they buy and what they pay Buyers › AI data vendors › Mercor Mercor is profiled here as an AI data vendor [1]. Data types cited in this profile include: Slack/Teams, Email, Docs/wiki, CRM, Code, Drive [1]. Last verified November 3, 2026 ## Quick facts | Fact | Value | |---|---| | Type | AI data vendor [1] | | Status | Active [1] | | Website | https://www.mercor.com/ [1] | | HQ | San Francisco, CA [1] | | Founded | 2023 [2] | | Ownership | Backed by Benchmark, Felicis, General Catalyst and Menlo Ventures [2] · $350M Series C at a $10B valuation (CNBC headline listed on Mercor's newsroom) [2] | | Program | Monetize your data [1] · https://www.mercor.com/data/ [1] | | Price | Not published | | Pricing basis | Based on data volume, tools connected and depth of data [1] | | Payment timing | Wire on delivery of the anonymized dataset to the buyer, typically 2-4 weeks after signing [1] | | How to start | Choose from 100+ supported tools and link accounts [1] | ## What they buy - **Data types:** Slack/Teams, Email, Docs/wiki, CRM, Code, Drive [1] - **Excluded:** Not published - **Intended use:** Training frontier AI models to work inside companies, navigating real tools, workflows and decisions (Mercor's explanation of why labs want the data) [1] ## Price and payment - **Price:** Not published - **Pricing basis:** Based on data volume, tools connected and depth of data [1] - **Payment timing:** Wire on delivery of the anonymized dataset to the buyer, typically 2-4 weeks after signing [1] - **Seller fees:** None; Mercor covers extraction, anonymization and transfer costs [1] - **Platform's cut:** Not published - **Referral bounty:** Not published ## Deal terms - **Deal structure:** License; Mercor packages data and pays the company [1] - **Exclusivity:** Not published - **Term:** Not published - **Field of use:** Not published - **Onward transfer:** No AI lab buyer or third-party vendor ever sees the raw data [1] - **Seller keeps ownership:** Not published ## Privacy and data handling - **De-identification:** Extraction and anonymization process is fully automated [1] - **Raw data deletion:** Not published - **Certifications:** SOC 2 Type II [1] - **Personal data handling:** Fully automated extraction and anonymization; no AI lab buyer or third-party vendor sees raw data; engineering team does not manually review data; all access logged [1] ## Process - **Steps:** (1) Connect: link accounts from 100+ supported tools (2) Process: platform extracts and de-identifies data into an asset (3) Payout: paid as soon as processing is complete [1] - **Timeline:** Typically 2-4 weeks from signed agreement to payment [1] - **Sample before offer:** No data leaves the seller's systems until the seller approves it [1] - **How to start:** Choose from 100+ supported tools and link accounts [1] ## Who they sell to - **Sells to:** Frontier AI labs (not named on the program page) [1] ## Track record ### Named deals - Spirit Airlines data auction: alternate (backup) bidder behind Google (Aug 2026) (reported) [3] - Offered to buy or license Warmly's code base and task records after Warmly agreed to be acquired by HubSpot (an offer, per The Information) (reported) [4] ### Coverage - RuntimeWire: Mercor offers up to $100K for companies willing to license data to AI labs; Foody says Mercor has partnered with more than 500 companies (reported) [5] - Mercor courting shuttered startups for Slack/Jira archives (reported) [4] ## Watch for - March 2026 security incident via LiteLLM supply-chain attack (confirmed by Mercor) [6] - Several plaintiffs filed class-action lawsuits in California federal court on April 1 over an alleged data breach affecting Mercor (HR Dive, Apr 13 2026) (reported) [7] - Hausfeld LLP and Hall Attorneys filed a putative class action in N.D. Cal. on April 21, 2026 on behalf of individuals whose personal information may have been compromised (reported) [8] - Spirit Airlines privacy ombudsman wants to examine Mercor's security incident if the court considers Mercor instead of Google (reported) [3] ## Sources 1. Monetize your data | Mercor, mercor.com. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (company's own site) https://www.mercor.com/data/ 2. Newsroom | Mercor, mercor.com. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company's own site) https://www.mercor.com/newsroom/ 3. Spirit's privacy ombudsman backs Google's $10m data deal, thenextweb.com. Published October 9, 2026. Accessed October 30, 2026. (press) https://thenextweb.com/news/google-spirit-airlines-data-ombudsman-approval 4. Mercor chases shuttered startups' Slack and Jira archives (AI Weekly), aiweekly.co. Published August 15, 2026. Accessed October 30 and November 3, 2026. (press) https://aiweekly.co/alerts/mercor-chases-shuttered-startups-slack-and-jira-archives 5. Mercor offers up to $100K for companies willing to license data to AI labs (RuntimeWire), runtimewire.com. Published October 23, 2026. Accessed October 30, 2026. (press) https://runtimewire.com/article/mercor-100k-company-data-referrals 6. Update on Mercor security incident (Mercor Data Breach: Investigation Findings and Updates), mercor.com. Published June 25, 2026. Accessed October 30, 2026. (company's own site) https://www.mercor.com/blog/update-on-mercor-security-incident/ 7. AI industry recruiting platform faces multiple lawsuits over data breach (HR Dive), hrdive.com. Published April 13, 2026. Accessed November 3, 2026. (press) https://www.hrdive.com/news/ai-industry-recruiting-platform-faces-multiple-lawsuits-data-breach/817319/ 8. Mercor Data Breach (Hausfeld current claims), hausfeld.com. Accessed November 3, 2026. (press) https://www.hausfeld.com/what-we-do/current-claims/mercor-data-breach Last verified November 3, 2026 **Disclosure.** Bright Info is a sell-side broker. We may invite Mercor to bid for a client's data. This profile is compiled from public sources; it is not endorsed by or affiliated with Mercor. Corrections: hello@brightinfo.com. ## Related - All AI data vendors: https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/ai-data-vendors/ - micro1: https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/micro1/ - Mode: https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/mode/ - Nyne: https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/nyne-ai/ - All buyer profiles: https://www.brightinfo.com/buyers/ --- © 2026 Bright Info · https://www.brightinfo.com