Companies / Data marketplace
Defined.ai
An AI data marketplace whose partner programme lists businesses' datasets and pays licensing fees from each sale. Recorded here: 3 clauses of its contract in its own words, what it sells, in its own words, 1 disclosed licensing deal, 1 revenue figure, 9 public prices and 2 market records.
defined.aiLatest record 16 Oct 2026
licensing deals
How Defined.ai buys data
Defined.ai, partnerships page, 11 Oct 2026- What it wants
- Audio, video, image, text and multimodal datasets; in high demand: cinematic video, anime, coding, STEM.
- What it publishes about price
- No rate card. It states "$600K+ average partner revenue" and "$1M+" for five or more partners.
- Who it takes
- Any business that makes or aggregates data, with no fixed minimum volume.
- How the holder is paid
- Not published.
- Who removes personal data
- The seller must have consent and the right to sell; Defined.ai reviews rights and compliance.
- What it pays for an introduction
- Nothing published.
We are not Defined.ai's agent, partner or representative. If you hold data it might buy, we can put it in front of Defined.ai and every other buyer that fits at the same time.
What Defined.ai sells
In its own words, read on its own site 15 Oct 2026. On the vendor register
- What it sells
Datasets: “Access off-the-shelf ethically sourced and high-quality datasets across audio, image, video, text, and multimodal formats” defined.ai
Expert and human data: “Tap into a crowd of 1.6M+ global experts spanning 150+ countries and 500+ languages, dialects, and locales” defined.ai
Annotation: “From custom data collection and annotation to evaluation, we support your entire AI lifecycle, helping you move from development to deployment seamlessly.” defined.ai
Evaluations and benchmarks: “End-to-end AI training data, from collection to evaluation” defined.ai
- Where its data comes from
Made by experts and contractors: “Tap into a crowd of 1.6M+ global experts spanning 150+ countries and 500+ languages, dialects, and locales” defined.ai
- Buys data from owners
- Its programme is set out above.
- Areas its pages name
- Business work, Finance, Medical, Robotics, Speech and audio, Images and video, Games, Languages
What Defined.ai's contract says
The clauses Defined.ai publishes for the people it buys data from, in its own words, the costliest first. “Our reading” is ours, not Defined.ai's. These terms change: read the page itself before you sign.
Licence and use
Licensed through its marketplace, on commercial terms you approve.
“Data is monetized through dataset licensing driven by marketplace demand. Commercial terms depend on the dataset type, usage, and customer needs, and are always aligned with and approved by the partner.”
Our reading: You approve each deal's terms, but the share Defined.ai keeps is not published.
defined.ai, read 11 Oct 2026Other
You must show consent, documentation and the right to commercialise the data for AI training.
“All data must be ethically sourced, including proper consent, documentation, and the right to commercialize the data for AI training.”
Our reading: The rights burden is yours, and a rights file answers it.
defined.ai, read 11 Oct 2026Passing it on
Its licence to buyers is non-exclusive, non-sublicensable and non-transferable, so buyers cannot pass your data on.
“non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, and non-transferable”
Our reading: A protection worth asking every other buyer for.
defined.ai, read 12 Oct 2026
Not published: Revenue share, Payment timing, Licence term. Ask for each in writing.
Public prices involving Defined.ai
- Defined.ai Data Access Plan, Elite tier: 3,125 hours of off-the-shelf speech data from its marketplace
A bundle of hours from Defined.ai's off-the-shelf speech catalogue, sold as a discount on its standard rates; per hour, every tier works out at about EUR 160.
The payer's own page, Defined.ai press release, Data Access Plan (DAP)
€500,000 for 3,125 hoursper plan of 3,125 hours
- Defined.ai Data Access Plan, Premium tier: 625 hours of off-the-shelf speech data from its marketplace
A bundle of hours from Defined.ai's off-the-shelf speech catalogue, sold as a discount on its standard rates; per hour, every tier works out at about EUR 160.
The payer's own page, Defined.ai press release, Data Access Plan (DAP)
€100,000 for 625 hoursper plan of 625 hours
- Defined.ai Data Access Plan, Standard tier: 315 hours of off-the-shelf speech data from its marketplace
A bundle of hours from Defined.ai's off-the-shelf speech catalogue, sold as a discount on its standard rates; per hour, every tier works out at about EUR 160.
The payer's own page, Defined.ai press release, Data Access Plan (DAP)
€50,000 for 315 hoursper plan of 315 hours
- Defined.ai Data Access Plan, Ultimate tier: 1,565 hours of off-the-shelf speech data from its marketplace
A bundle of hours from Defined.ai's off-the-shelf speech catalogue, sold as a discount on its standard rates; per hour, every tier works out at about EUR 160.
The payer's own page, Defined.ai press release, Data Access Plan (DAP)
€250,000 for 1,565 hoursper plan of 1,565 hours
- Short-form videos licensed for AI training (Defined.ai)
Per-clip price from the same vendor that quotes $100 to $300 per hour for longer films.
Press report, The Decoder (summarising Reuters)
$2 to $4 for short videosper short video
- Images of nudity, which need special handling (Defined.ai)
Sensitive content needing special handling sells at several times the ordinary $1 to $2 image rate from the same vendor.
Press report, The Decoder (summarising Reuters)
$5 to $7 per imageper image
- Longer films and professional video (Defined.ai's quoted rate)
A marketplace's quoted rates in 2024: $2 to $4 for a short clip, $100 to $300 an hour for longer films.
Press report, Reuters, via The Decoder
$100 to $300 an hourper hour
- Images sold through a data marketplace (Defined.ai's quoted rate)
A marketplace's quoted rate for curated images with metadata. Bulk stock images have licensed for a few cents each.
Press report, Reuters, via The Decoder
$1 to $2 an imageper image
- General text sold through a data marketplace (Defined.ai's quoted rate)
$1,000 per million words. Edited, published work selected by a buyer has licensed for fifty times that.
Press report, Reuters, via The Decoder
$0.001 a wordper word
What Defined.ai earns
Revenue, run rates and ARR as each was published. Run rates are often a best month times twelve, and gross figures include what passes through to experts.
- FY2025Measurerevenue growthFigure65% year-over-year (net revenue retention 143%); dollar revenue not disclosed
Licensing deals
- Apr 2024Rates vary by buyer and content type
In the brokerage market
Oct 2026, price range
$600K+ average partner revenue; $1M+ for 5+ partners
Partnerships page, undated, read 2026-10-16; the page also states 319% year-over-year growth in dataset sales.
Jan 2026, broker economics
several partners earn more than $1 million a year
From its 2025 results release; the same release reports a 1,200% increase in third-party partner datasets in 2025.
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AIData.Broker, “Defined.ai in the AI training data market”, reviewed 16 Oct 2026. https://www.aidata.markets/companies/defined-ai
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