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Wirestock
A creator platform that licenses photographers', videographers' and illustrators' work to AI labs through paid projects and dataset deals. Recorded here: its published terms for buying data, what it sells, in its own words, 1 disclosed licensing deal, 1 funding event, 2 revenue figures and 3 public prices.
wirestock.ioLatest record 15 Oct 2026
How Wirestock buys data
Wirestock, FAQ, 11 Oct 2026- What it wants
- Photos, video and illustration the creator holds the rights to, with releases for people and property.
- What it publishes about price
- Paid per approved asset on projects; in dataset deals, by each creator's share of the pool.
- Who it takes
- Any creator with the rights to license their uploads. Non-exclusive; creators keep copyright.
- How the holder is paid
- By PayPal or Payoneer once the balance reaches $30.
- Who removes personal data
- Creators supply model and property releases.
- What it pays for an introduction
- 10% of a referred creator's earnings, up to $25.
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What Wirestock sells
In its own words, read on its own site 15 Oct 2026. On the vendor register
- What it sells
Datasets: “Datasets built for pretraining, SFT, RL, and RLHF workflows.” wirestock.io
Expert and human data: “Structured to your specifications, with rubrics, verifier tasks, and expert QA and review.” wirestock.io
- Where its data comes from
Made by experts and contractors: “Premium multimodal data from a global network of creative professionals.” wirestock.io
Licensed from its owners: “Upload your work once and earn commission whenever it is licensed.” wirestock.io
- Buys data from owners
In its words: “Creators are compensated for every creative contribution as it is licensed to power industry-leading AI models.” wirestock.io
- Areas its pages name
- Creative, Images and video
Public prices involving Wirestock
- Old photo restoration set: two provided old photos, each restored and paired with written edit instructions, for AI image-editing training data
Restoration pays twice the per-image rate of Wirestock's general editing sets ($2.50 against $1.25), for a more skilled edit. Paid only once participation is approved and the set accepted.
The payer's own page, Wirestock, Submission Guidelines for Old Photo Restoration
$5 per an approved setper approved set of 2 restored images
- Project Vertex: a set of 4 progressive edits of a provided real photo (compositing, background swap, object insert or removal, colour change) with written step notes, for AI image-editing training data
Wirestock pays editors per accepted set, monthly; the photos are supplied, so the pay is for the editing and the instructions, the paired before-and-after data image-editing models train on. Wirestock's page answers a plain browser; an automated fetch may get a holding page.
The payer's own page, Wirestock, Project Vertex: Paid Photo Editing Work
$5 for every accepted Image Setper accepted set of 4 edited images
- Photographs and artworks licensed through Wirestock for AI training, specific-need requests (top of range)
Wirestock's CEO: bulk sales pay creators 'microtransactions of cents on the dollar', specific briefs up to $15 to $20 an artwork.
Press report, VentureBeat, Wirestock lets photographers and artists get paid when AI companies train on their work
up to $15-20 per artwork for specific needsper artwork
What Wirestock 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.
- run-rate May 2026Measurerun-rateFigure$40M
- cumulative to May 2026Measurepayouts to contributors (cumulative)Figure$15M
Funding and acquisitions
- 14 May 2026EventSeries AAmount$23M
Licensing deals
- May 2026$40M a year
Cite this
AIData.Broker, “Wirestock in the AI training data market”, reviewed 15 Oct 2026. https://www.aidata.markets/companies/wirestock
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