Companies / Data vendor
Turing
Turing describes itself as "Connecting world-class talent with the companies building the future of AI." Recorded here: 4 clauses of its contract in its own words, what it sells, in its own words, 1 disclosed licensing deal, 1 funding event, 2 revenue figures, 12 public prices and 3 market records.
San Francisco, California, USFounded 2018turing.comLatest record 16 Oct 2026
How Turing buys data
Turing, Lazarus page, 11 Oct 2026- What it wants
- Team communication, source code with reviews and tickets, wikis, runbooks, schemas and the reasoning behind decisions.
- What it publishes about price
- "A single payout of up to $1M" for an operating record. For code repositories its process page (lazarus.turing.com/process, read 16 Oct 2026) says "Repos typically pay $10k–$100k+ depending on quality and complexity".
- Who it takes
- Operating, winding-down and closed companies, strongest demand in the US, UK, Canada and EU. Codebases: 50,000+ lines, human-written, with tests.
- How the holder is paid
- One payment after a sample review and a final offer. Intake call within one business day under NDA.
- Who removes personal data
- Turing removes personal data and secrets in an air-gapped environment, on its side.
- What it pays for an introduction
- Up to $10,000 per referral.
We are not Turing's agent, partner or representative. If you hold data it might buy, we can put it in front of Turing and every other buyer that fits at the same time.
What Turing sells
In its own words, read on its own site 15 Oct 2026. On the vendor register
- What it sells
RL environments: “Iterable UI and non-UI environments that agents can use to explore and learn long-horizon workflows.” turing.com
Datasets: “We offer frontier AI labs custom and off-the-shelf datasets, RL environments, and human experts in software engineering, enterprise knowledge work, and frontier STEM.” turing.com
Expert and human data: “We offer frontier AI labs custom and off-the-shelf datasets, RL environments, and human experts in software engineering, enterprise knowledge work, and frontier STEM.” turing.com
Evaluations and benchmarks: “CEO Bench evaluates whether AI agents can complete long-horizon financial and operational work inside a complete, expert-authored fictional company.” turing.com
- Where its data comes from
Made by experts and contractors: “Research-grade and built by experts to hillclimb on key benchmarks.” turing.com
Replicas of real software: “Interactive replicas of enterprise and consumer apps such as Jira, Salesforce, and Zendesk.” turing.com
- Buys data from owners
- Its programme is set out above.
- Areas its pages name
- Coding, Computer use, Business work, Finance, Legal, Medical, Science, Images and video
What Turing's contract says
The clauses Turing publishes for the people it buys data from, in its own words, the costliest first. “Our reading” is ours, not Turing's. These terms change: read the page itself before you sign.
Licence and use
You keep ownership; Turing acquires "defined rights" to the prepared record under one agreement.
“You retain ownership of your underlying data. We acquire defined rights to the prepared record under a single agreement, with rights transfer handled on our side.”
Our reading: The rights are defined only in the contract, so read its term, sublicensing and resale there.
lazarus.turing.com, read 11 Oct 2026When you are paid
One payment, with no recurring commitment.
“One payment. No retainer, no recurring commitment.”
Our reading: You are paid once, whatever Turing does with the record afterwards.
lazarus.turing.com, read 12 Oct 2026Who removes personal data
Turing removes personal data and secrets itself, in isolated processing; you approve the scope first.
“Personal data and secrets are removed before anything reaches a model. Processing is isolated and air-gapped, access is limited to a named team, and you approve scope before we begin.”
Our reading: The buyer runs the scrub, though in isolation and on a scope you approve.
lazarus.turing.com, read 11 Oct 2026Resale
Its intake asks your industry to match your submission with buyers.
“Helps us match your submission with relevant buyers.”
Our reading: Turing may sell on what it buys, and a one-off payment gives you no share of those sales.
lazarus.turing.com, read 11 Oct 2026
Not published: Licence term, Exclusivity, Payment timing after the contract. Ask for each in writing.
Public prices involving Turing
- A company's whole working record (Turing)
A ceiling, not a typical price. The figure is set after Turing reviews a sample.
The payer's own page, Turing
Up to $1Mone payment
- A private repository bought by Turing's Project Lazarus for AI training (all languages, priced on quality and complexity)
The buyer's own seller-facing statement, broader than the legacy-only $10K to $100K+ figure on the board; the same page prices modern codebases at $1K per PR up to $10K and pays up to $1M for a whole company's record.
The payer's own page, Turing, Project Lazarus (seller page)
Repos typically pay $10k–$100k+ depending on quality and complexity.per repository
- Agentic genomics task with reference solution for GeneBench Pro, Turing Bioinformatics / Computational Genomics Expert (October posting)
Five-week contract at 40 hours a week; down from $260 in the 17 Sep 2026 posting of the same project.
The payer's own page, AITraining.jobs, Turing Bioinformatics / Computational Genomics Expert (Turing's posting, mirrored)
$150 per approved taskper approved task
- Reproducible physical-science task an AI agent must complete in a Linux terminal, Turing Physical Sciences Expert
Turing states both the task price and its own time estimate, so the effective hourly pay for PhD-level work is $37.50 to $50.
The payer's own page, AITraining.jobs, Turing Physical Sciences Expert, AI Training (Turing's posting, mirrored)
$300 per approved task. Tasks are estimated to take six to eight hoursper approved task of six to eight hours
- Terminal-based scientific task for Terminal Bench Science (environment, expert solution, automated tests), Turing Scientific Computing Expert
Five-week contract at 40 hours a week; Outlier pays up to $1,350 for a comparable Terminal-Bench task (already on the board).
The payer's own page, AITraining.jobs, Turing Scientific Computing Expert, Physical Sciences (Turing's posting, mirrored)
Pay per task - $300 per approved taskper approved task
- Python backend replica of a SaaS tool (Slack, Linear, Jira, Notion, Gmail) or a long-horizon agent task with rubric, Turing frontier AI data initiative
Minimum of one approved task a day for four weeks, no cap. Turing posts the same project and rate under three other titles (Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Team Management, 24 Sep to 1 Oct 2026); counted once here.
The payer's own page, AITraining.jobs, Turing Software Engineer with Python & Docker experience (Turing's posting, mirrored)
$300 per approved taskper approved task
- Agentic genomics task with reference solution for GeneBench Pro, Turing Bioinformatics / Computational Genomics Expert (September posting)
Same project re-posted on 6 Oct 2026 at $150 per approved task (next row): the rate fell 42 percent in three weeks.
The payer's own page, AITraining.jobs, Turing Bioinformatics / Computational Genomics Expert (Turing's posting, mirrored)
$260 per approved taskper approved task
- A failed startup's codebase
One buyer bought five to ten of them. Code alone, without the tickets and discussion around it, is the cheapest company record.
Press report, Fortune
Tens of thousands of dollarsper codebase
- Engineer building the pipeline that captures and scrubs coding-agent (Copilot CLI) traces for a lab dataset (Turing contract)
Rate quoted from Turing's posting text on a job aggregator (listed 34 days before reading); the aggregator's own header estimate of $25 to $55 is not the stated rate.
A catalogue or marketplace listing, aitrainer.work, Turing: Software / Platform / Data Engineer, Agent Trace Collection
Compensation: $100/hourper hour (3-month contract, 20+ hours a week)
- Company artifacts (tickets, specs, docs, support threads) bundled with a codebase
Only paid when bundled with a codebase; standalone company documents are not priced.
A vendor's published price guide, Turing (AGI Advance newsletter, Project Lazarus)
$50 per artifactper artifact
- Legacy private codebase (COBOL, .NET, Java) licensed to Turing for AI training
Turing's own published buy-side price guide for Project Lazarus; the top is open-ended and the final price depends on complexity.
A vendor's published price guide, Turing (AGI Advance newsletter, Project Lazarus)
$10K to $100K+ depending on complexityper codebase
- Modern private codebase priced by pull request (Turing Project Lazarus)
Modern codebases are paid per PR with a $10K ceiling per codebase, far below the legacy-language range from the same buyer.
A vendor's published price guide, Turing (AGI Advance newsletter, Project Lazarus)
$1,000 per PR, up to $10K per codebaseper pull request (capped per codebase)
What Turing 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.
- ARR Mar 2025MeasureARRFigure$300M
- run-rate Dec 2024Measurerun-rateFigure$300M
Funding and acquisitions
- 6 Mar 2025EventSeries EAmount$111MValuation$2.2B
Licensing deals
- Sep 2026Five to ten codebases bought
In the brokerage market
Oct 2026, price range
up to $1M
Amount scales with how complete, rare and well-preserved the record is and is confirmed after sampling. For code repositories, its process page (https://lazarus.turing.com/process, read 16 Oct 2026) says: 'Repos typically pay $10k–$100k+ depending on quality and complexity.'
Oct 2026, referral terms
up to $10k
Button text only; no eligibility or payment conditions on the page.
Sep 2026, transaction
average in the tens of thousands of dollars
CEO statement to The Information, relayed by Fortune.
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Cite this
AIData.Broker, “Turing in the AI training data market”, reviewed 16 Oct 2026. https://www.aidata.markets/companies/turing
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