Companies / Data marketplace
Kled
A consumer app where individuals earn when their photos, video and audio are licensed to AI companies. Recorded here: 3 clauses of its contract in its own words, what it sells, in its own words, 3 funding events, 2 public prices and 7 market records.
kled.aiLatest record 15 Oct 2026
How Kled buys data
Kled, site, 11 Oct 2026- What it wants
- Photos, video, audio and files individuals own, plus labelling tasks.
- What it publishes about price
- Nothing published.
- Who it takes
- Individuals, through its iOS app.
- How the holder is paid
- Earnings collect in a wallet that can be cashed out at any time.
- Who removes personal data
- Not published.
- What it pays for an introduction
- Nothing published.
We are not Kled's agent, partner or representative. If you hold data it might buy, we can put it in front of Kled and every other buyer that fits at the same time.
What Kled sells
In its own words, read on its own site 15 Oct 2026. On the vendor register
- What it sells
Datasets: “We curate high-quality datasets, including video, music, and transcriptions, enriched with metadata to ensure accurate, ethical AI training and optimal model performance.” kled.ai
Expert and human data: “Powering leading AI labs, governments, and research institutions with verified human data.” kled.ai
Evaluations and benchmarks: “Eval sets are continuously built to surface model failures and identify the specific data required to close those gaps.” kled.ai
Annotation: “Once sensitive data is removed and originality is confirmed, fine-tuned multimodal models are run to label the data.” kled.ai
- Where its data comes from
Licensed from its owners: “Kled provides premium, unbiased data from top rightsholders to train AI models.” kled.ai
Made by experts and contractors: “Powering the world’s leading AI companies, governments, and research institutions with data sourced from verified contributors.” kled.ai
Recorded from people and the real world: “All collected through distributed human-in-the-loop capture.” kled.ai
- Buys data from owners
- Its programme is set out above.
- Areas its pages name
- Images and video, Medical
What Kled's contract says
A consumer app that pays people for uploads; these are its terms for anyone who submits content. The clauses Kled publishes for the people it buys data from, in its own words, the costliest first. “Our reading” is ours, not Kled's. These terms change: read the page itself before you sign.
Licence and use
A transferable, worldwide, perpetual and irrevocable licence that Kled may sublicense through several tiers.
“transferable, fully sub-licensable (through multiple tiers), worldwide, perpetual and irrevocable. You agree that such license will be exclusive to us”
Our reading: Everything a buyer could ask for, for ever, for one small payment.
kled.ai, read 11 Oct 2026Exclusivity
The licence is exclusive to Kled.
“You agree that such license will be exclusive to us”
Our reading: Once uploaded, the content cannot be sold to anyone else.
kled.ai, read 11 Oct 2026Refunds
If consent is withdrawn, you must refund what you were paid for that content.
“you are required to immediately refund to Company any compensation you previously received in connection with such Submitted Content”
Our reading: A payment can be clawed back.
kled.ai, read 11 Oct 2026
Not published: Pay rates, De-identification. Ask for each in writing.
Public prices involving Kled
- Crowd-sourced photo, video and audio dataset licence from the Kled AI marketplace
Company-announced, buyer unnamed and terms unverified; about $6M per year for a non-exclusive multimodal licence.
Press report, Solana Compass
$12M non-exclusive data licensing deal over two yearsper deal (two years)
- Existing camera-roll photos sold through the Kled app (no screenshots, downloads or AI images), as reported by users
Effective rate a consumer data buyer paid holders for existing personal photos, from user reports a side-hustle blog summarised (anecdotal; Kled's own app shows the live rate). Special tasks for specific photos pay more.
Press report, Flexswag, Kled App: sell your pics for AI training, is it worth it?
~$7 for 1,000 photosper 1,000 photos uploaded
Funding and acquisitions
- 25 Jun 2026EventinvestmentAmount$3M
- 13 Dec 2025EventvaluationValuation$100M
- 10 Mar 2026EventSeedAmount$5.5M
In the brokerage market
Jun 2026, buyer program
$8 million
A request Kled says it received, to be fulfilled through its V3 update and a network of specialised accountants. Counterparty not named.
Jun 2026, price range
up to $50-$150 per form
Pay to contributors who upload credit card reports, tax returns and W-9 forms in the Kled app.
Jun 2026, transaction
$12 million
Self-reported by Kled; counterparty not named; Kled says the deal makes its marketplace officially profitable.
Apr 2026, buyer program
over $30,000,000
Rewards Kled plans to pay contributors; it is Kled's own spending on collecting data, not a lab's purchase.
Apr 2026, price range
$5 for a video, $150 for a tax return, $1,000 for 500 selfies
Examples given in the same post.
Dec 2025, buyer program
up to $2.2 million
Before the April 2026 window; recorded because Kled's other budgets build on it.
Oct 2025, buyer program
$1 million LOI
Before the April 2026 window; a letter of intent, not a closed sale.
Cite this
AIData.Broker, “Kled in the AI training data market”, reviewed 15 Oct 2026. https://www.aidata.markets/companies/kled
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