Kinds of data

Source code

Private repositories with their history: commits, reviews and the tickets they answer.

Public price: $934 to $24.2K
per repository
Demand: Split
Who buys: Coding-data vendors, environment builders, labs

The market rate for source code, by side

The median where three or more figures exist, otherwise the figures we hold. Each side is a different point in the market: what the people who make it are paid, what holders are offered, what catalogues ask, what was paid.

Paid to the people who make it

$130

per task, median of 7 figures; middle half $99 to $730

Paid to the people who make it

$118

per hour of work, median of 4 figures; middle half $92 to $151

Offered to holders

$1,478

per repository, median of 6 figures; middle half $934 to $24.2K

Offered to holders

$0.00004 to $0.0001

per token, from 2 figures

Offered to holders

$1,000

per pull request, from 1 figure

Sales that happened

$1,579

per repository, from 1 figure

Asking prices off the shelf

$99 to $65.8K

per repository, from 2 figures

Asking prices off the shelf

$0.0025

per record, from 1 figure

Made to order

$8.94

per record, from 1 figure

Cost to produce

$0.5

per record, from 1 figure

What source code has sold or been offered for

The whole price board

Public prices for source code
What was sold or offered	Price	When	What to know	Source
Review and upgrade of one real-world coding, data or automation scenario used to train AI assistants (Python, JavaScript, SQL, n8n, Make, Zapier), Vetto Coding, Data and Automations Experts	US$ 30 per approved task per approved task, about 40 minutes each	Oct 2026	Vetto (a Brazilian-founded expert network) pays the reviewer per approved task in local currency; its own effective rate is about $45 an hour. Read on AITraining.jobs, which has the same owner as AIData.Broker, quoting Vetto's posting (posted about seven months before the read, so dated by the read day).	AITraining.jobs, Vetto job posting: Coding, Data and Automations Experts The payer's own page
Original SWE-bench style coding task authored from the contributor's own private codebase (maintainer-style issue, hidden fail-to-pass and pass-to-pass tests, reference solution), AfterQuery University SWE Expert	$75 per task that is fully approved per fully approved task	Oct 2026	AfterQuery pays the contributor only for tasks that pass automated validation (up to five attempts), on top of $300 per codebase connected; the same terms appear in AfterQuery's SWE Experts posting dated 14 Aug 2026, which also states $150 an hour. Undated posting, read on 2026-10-14.	Handshake job posting by AfterQuery, University SWE Expert The payer's own page
Access to a substantial private codebase the contributor owns, used as the basis for SWE coding tasks (AfterQuery University SWE Expert)	$300 per codebase you connect and use as a basis for tasks per codebase connected	Oct 2026	Paid to the owner of the private codebase per codebase used, separate from the $75 per approved task; the lowest per-repository figure a named buyer publishes, against $10K to $100K+ at Turing's Lazarus programme.	Handshake job posting by AfterQuery, University SWE Expert The payer's own page
A well-documented, production-grade private codebase licensed on HUD's DataVendor marketplace	up to $20,000 each per codebase	Oct 2026	HUD's current ceiling, up from 'up to $10K' in June 2026. The marketplace says codebases have licensed for this much; it takes a 20% platform fee at withdrawal, so the holder nets up to $16,000. Read from the markdown copy the docs publish, because the rendered page typesets its dollar amounts as math and scrambles them for any reader but a browser; unchanged on 15 Oct 2026.	DataVendor (HUD) docs, What you can sell (the page's markdown) The payer's own page
Custom coding dataset for LLM fine-tuning, focused single-language (1,000 to 5,000 pairs), made to order by LXT	$20K for focused single-language datasets (1,000-5,000 pairs) per project of 1,000 to 5,000 pairs	Oct 2026	A vendor's published entry price for made-to-order code data; the page names it as where projects start, not a rate card. Undated page, read on 2026-10-14.	LXT, Custom Coding Datasets for LLM Fine-Tuning and Code Generation (FAQ) A vendor's published price guide
Custom coding dataset for LLM fine-tuning, large multi-language and multi-task with execution-verified code, made to order by LXT	$150K+ per project	Oct 2026	Open-ended top of LXT's stated range; no size is given, so no per-pair figure. Undated page, read on 2026-10-14.	LXT, Custom Coding Datasets for LLM Fine-Tuning and Code Generation (FAQ) A vendor's published price guide
Reproducible coding RL environment (feature implementation or bug fix with a deterministic verifier and a golden reference solution), micro1 Software Engineer (GitHub Contributor)	$50-100/hour, ~15 hours per run per hour, about 15 hours per task	Oct 2026	Paid hourly; the per-task figure is the hourly band times micro1's own stated time per task, so it moves with how long a task really takes. A twin posting (Software Engineer, Open Source Contributor) states the same pay and time.	micro1 job board, Software Engineer (GitHub Contributor) The payer's own page
Git history (commits and their messages) licensed by the token through Pangea's code licensing partner	$40 /M tokens of git history per million tokens of git history	Oct 2026	An indicative standing rate, paid on top of the source-code rate for the same repository.	Pangea.ai, Code Licensing referral partner guide The payer's own page
Private codebases licensed through Pangea's network to date: total paid to owners	$600,000 across 380 codebases in total, across 380 codebases	Oct 2026	The intermediary's own count of realised payouts. The average, about $1,579 a codebase, sits inside its 'typical' tier and far below the five- and six-figure ceilings buyers advertise.	Pangea.ai, Code Licensing referral partner guide The payer's own page
A private repository of deep depth, licensed non-exclusively through Pangea's code licensing partner	$1,500–$2,000 per repo (deep) per repository, per licence	Oct 2026	What the owner is paid per licence by Pangea's unnamed partner; Pangea calls its figures deliberately conservative estimates, not guaranteed payouts. Non-exclusive, so a repository can earn this more than once.	Pangea.ai, Code Licensing referral partner guide The payer's own page
A private repository of light depth, licensed non-exclusively through Pangea's code licensing partner	$700–$1,000 per repo (light) per repository, per licence	Oct 2026	What the owner is paid per licence by Pangea's unnamed partner; Pangea calls its figures deliberately conservative estimates, not guaranteed payouts. Non-exclusive, so a repository can earn this more than once.	Pangea.ai, Code Licensing referral partner guide The payer's own page
A private repository of typical depth, licensed non-exclusively through Pangea's code licensing partner	$1,000–$1,500 per repo (typical) per repository, per licence	Oct 2026	What the owner is paid per licence by Pangea's unnamed partner; Pangea calls its figures deliberately conservative estimates, not guaranteed payouts. Non-exclusive, so a repository can earn this more than once.	Pangea.ai, Code Licensing referral partner guide The payer's own page
Private source code licensed by the token through Pangea's code licensing partner	$100 /M tokens of source code per million tokens of source code	Oct 2026	An indicative standing rate, the owner's side with nothing deducted; final value depends on the partner's analysis and buyer demand. A job-board copy of the same rates names Gramian Consulting Group.	Pangea.ai, Code Licensing referral partner guide The payer's own page
AtCoder competitive-programming dataset (problems, test data, accepted and failed user solutions) licensed to AI companies	budget is $100,000 or more minimum per licence	Oct 2026	Seller's own minimum order across four tiers (problems only, starter, all accepted, everything); full price list not yet published, and licensing of user code began August 2026.	AtCoder Datasets The payer's own page
GitHub repositories dataset (3.4M+ records: repository attributes, languages, sizes, contributions, issues, pull requests, forks) sold by Bright Data	$250 for 100K records (approximately $0.0025 per record) per 100,000 records (one-time)	Oct 2026	Public repository metadata, not licensed source code; a floor for what scraped public code facts cost.	Bright Data, GitHub datasets A catalogue or marketplace listing
Data-structures-and-algorithms code repositories with programming solutions, price for an initial batch of 1,000 repositories	$98,700 per initial batch of 1,000 repositories	Oct 2026	Asking price on the Opendatabay marketplace (USD since 1 Oct 2026, converted from GBP at $1 = GBP 0.76); seller-stated volumes and rights, not verified by us. Small exercise-style repositories, not production systems. Listed 4 Aug 2026.	Opendatabay, 12K+ DSA Codebases & 64K+ Programming Solutions Dataset (Infobay.AI) A catalogue or marketplace listing
Legacy software codebases across 20+ industries (400+ codebases, 204M+ lines, 420K+ commits in the full set), price for an initial batch of 20 million lines	$196,100 per initial batch of 20 million lines of code	Oct 2026	Asking price on the Opendatabay marketplace (USD since 1 Oct 2026, converted from GBP at $1 = GBP 0.76); seller-stated volumes and rights, not verified by us. The repository count in the batch is not stated, so no per-repository figure. Listed 4 Aug 2026.	Opendatabay, 400+ Legacy Codebases Dataset (Infobay.AI) A catalogue or marketplace listing
240+ private commercial repositories with full git history (300,000+ commits, ~42M lines, 44,000+ merged MRs with descriptions, ~463M tokens), de-identified	$263,200 per dataset of 240+ repositories	Oct 2026	Asking price on the Opendatabay marketplace (USD since 1 Oct 2026, converted from GBP at $1 = GBP 0.76); seller-stated volumes and rights, not verified by us. At about $6 per merged MR it lists two orders of magnitude under Turing's $1,000 per PR offer. Listed 8 Sep 2026.	Opendatabay, Commercial Source Code & Engineering Data A catalogue or marketplace listing
A private repository bought by Turing's Project Lazarus for AI training (all languages, priced on quality and complexity)	Repos typically pay $10k–$100k+ depending on quality and complexity. per repository	Oct 2026	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.	Turing, Project Lazarus (seller page) The payer's own page
One self-contained database engineering task for AI agents (engine implementation, production diagnosis or application migration) with a reproducible repository, reference solution, tests and grading criteria, Mercor Database Systems Evaluation Expert pilot	$2.2K per task per task, about 25 hours of work	Oct 2026	A pilot for the first three qualifying applicants (applications close 16 Oct 2026, task due 30 Oct 2026), each completing one task; at the stated 25 hours it is about $88 an hour. Highest per-task coding rate on Mercor's board on the day read.	Mercor job board, Database Systems Evaluation Expert The payer's own page
Code Agent Trajectories: 551 verified PASS trajectories from an autonomous code agent in a sandboxed Python environment (reasoning, tool calls, final answer; JSONL, 5.63 MB), sold by Jurgen's Data Lab on Getly	$100.00 per dataset of 551 trajectories	Sep 2026	Machine-generated (an agent's runs judged PASS by an LLM), sold by a one-person storefront with commercial use allowed and no resale; the bottom of the market. The same seller lists a 177-trajectory PASS plus reasoning subset at $150 and a 924-entry bundle of its three sets at $250.	Getly, Fine-Tuning Datasets: Code Agent Trajectories, 551 Verified PASS (Jurgen's Data Lab) A catalogue or marketplace listing
Premium: 177 verified PASS agent trajectories that also carry full chain-of-thought reasoning (JSONL, ATIF-v0.2, 1.3 MB), sold by Jurgen's Data Lab on Getly	$150.00 per dataset of 177 trajectories	Sep 2026	Machine-generated (an agent's runs judged PASS by an LLM), commercial use allowed, no resale of the file. The top-quality subset of the seller's 551-trajectory set (held at $100); costs 1.5 times the larger set for 177 entries, so the reasoning text is what is priced. The same seller also lists a 196-entry chain-of-thought set at $75 and a bundle of all three sets at $250; both repackage these same trajectories, so they are not counted as separate figures.	Getly, Jurgen's Data Lab: Premium A catalogue or marketplace listing
Software engineering expert pool (writing engineering problems with reference answers, grading model-written code)	$70 to $150 an hour per hour	Sep 2026	Mercor's own summary of what its software-engineering projects have paid; a standing pool, not one project.	Mercor job board, Software engineering expert pool The payer's own page
A failed startup's codebase	Tens of thousands of dollars per codebase	Sep 2026	One buyer bought five to ten of them. Code alone, without the tickets and discussion around it, is the cheapest company record.	Fortune Press report
Application user recording real work in Visual Studio Code on macOS (computer-use data)	$55-$65 per hour per hour	Sep 2026	One of a family of per-application listings (PyCharm, Android Studio and others at the same rate); the worker supplies the machine and licence.	Mercor job board, Application user recording real work in Visual Studio Code on macOS The payer's own page
A private repository, graded by the platform	$5,000 baseline per repository	Sep 2026	Troveo's guide citing an unnamed codebase-buying platform's listed baseline, adjusted after grading. Production history, linked tickets and reviews, clean rights and an unusual domain raise it.	Troveo, How to sell source code and workflows to AI labs The payer's own page
Data-Analysis-Platform: one private multi-service enterprise Git repository with full history (5,683 commits, 1,474 tracked files, about 108,761 lines; Terraform, Python backend, IAM, SQL migrations, API tests), sold by Octobit8 on Opendatabay	$65,800 per repository (one repository, about 10.5 MB with history)	Sep 2026	A seller's asking price on an open marketplace; the commit history spans about two years (Feb 2023 to Jan 2025), listed 10 Aug 2026, updated 2 Sep 2026. Opendatabay converted all GBP prices to USD on 1 Oct 2026 at $1 = 0.76 GBP, so this figure is a conversion of the seller's GBP price. Licence grants non-exclusive AI training rights, no resale.	Opendatabay, Software Engineering & Code Data: Data-Analysis-Platform (Octobit8 (OPC) Private Limited) A catalogue or marketplace listing
Codebase-exploration RL task on a production Python repository (Django, Twisted, Scrapy, SymPy, mypy, pip and others), Mercor Codebase Q&A	$130 per approved task per approved task	Aug 2026	Same project and rate as the Go, C and TypeScript tracks; listing active when read. Mercor posts the same $130 per approved task for its Go, C, TypeScript tracks (read 2026-10-14), so scarcer systems languages earn no premium; counted once because it is one programme at one rate. Closed: Mercor shows the posting no longer accepting applications (read 2026-10-17).	Mercor job board, Software Engineer, Python: Codebase Q&A The payer's own page
Legacy codebase migration expert designing and grading migration tasks for a frontier AI lab	$200 per hour per hour	Aug 2026	The top hourly rate on the board for code work; legacy migration (COBOL, old Java and .NET) is also what Turing pays most for as codebases.	Mercor job board, Legacy codebase migration expert designing and grading migration tasks for a frontier AI lab The payer's own page
Frontier Code Agents project for an unnamed AI research lab: use AI coding agents to complete and evaluate realistic engineering tasks, review model-generated code for bugs and edge cases (Mercor, Backend Engineer, Coding Agent Experience)	$400 per accepted task per accepted task	Jun 2026	One programme at one rate: the Data Engineer, ML Engineer and DevOps/SRE/Cloud Engineer postings of the same project (all created 2026-06-15) state the same $400 and 2 to 3 hours, and the Software Engineers (Coding Agents Experience) posting of 2026-01-13 states $400 and 1 to 3 hours. All are closed (no longer accepting applications) when read; the figure sits in each posting's own description data, while the visible page now shows Mercor's standing $70 to $150 an hour band. About three times Mercor's $130 codebase Q&A task.	Mercor job board, Backend Engineer (Coding Agent Experience) The payer's own page
One prompt-and-code-review task (writing a prompt, A/B comparing two models' code and picking the better) for Claude Code fine-tuning, Snorkel AI's project Marlin for Anthropic	up to $280 per task per task, typically about an hour	Jun 2026	Two contractors' account to Business Insider, relayed by a news summary because the Business Insider article was not fetched; a ceiling, not a published rate. At about an hour a task, up to about $280 an hour, far above the $30 to $130 per-task rates platforms post for comparable review.	Let's Data Science, summary of Business Insider: Anthropic uses contractors to improve Claude Code (1 Jun 2026) Press report
Code repository seeded with an OSS-fuzz-style vulnerability plus a validated patch, AfterQuery Cybersecurity Expert	Earn $300 per accepted task. Each successfully accepted task pays $50 per accepted task	May 2026	The posting states two figures for the same accepted task, $300 in its headline and $50 in its next sentence, plus bonuses up to $180 per repository; the range keeps both. The listing's structured pay also shows $75 an hour.	AITraining.jobs, AfterQuery Cybersecurity Expert (AfterQuery's posting, mirrored) The payer's own page
Legacy private codebase (COBOL, .NET, Java) licensed to Turing for AI training	$10K to $100K+ depending on complexity per codebase	Mar 2026	Turing's own published buy-side price guide for Project Lazarus; the top is open-ended and the final price depends on complexity.	Turing (AGI Advance newsletter, Project Lazarus) A vendor's published price guide
Modern private codebase priced by pull request (Turing Project Lazarus)	$1,000 per PR, up to $10K per codebase per pull request (capped per codebase)	Mar 2026	Modern codebases are paid per PR with a $10K ceiling per codebase, far below the legacy-language range from the same buyer.	Turing (AGI Advance newsletter, Project Lazarus) A vendor's published price guide
258k test-verified coding-agent trajectories across 1,655 repositories (CoderForge-Preview, generated synthetically)	total cost of generating ... was $130k per dataset (about $0.50 per trajectory, derived)	Feb 2026	A production cost at Together's own API prices, released free; it marks a floor for synthetic coding traces, not a sale price.	Together AI A vendor's published price guide
Coding-benchmark task work in React, TypeScript or JavaScript: curate issues, solutions and test suites from real-world repositories for AI labs (Mercor, Frontend Software Engineer), hourly base plus a bonus per approved task	$90 per hour plus lucrative bonus per approved task (1 task takes approximately 1 hour to complete); Median average pay inclusive of bonuses is $200/hr per hour (base), and median pay per hour including per-task bonuses	Nov 2025	Mercor states an hourly base plus an unstated bonus per approved task of about an hour; the $200 is its own median hourly pay including bonuses. Closed (no longer accepting applications) when read; one-month, 15 to 20 hours a week project.	Mercor job board, Frontend Software Engineer (React, TypeScript or JavaScript) The payer's own page
Professional developers' code snippets, edit history, prompts and terminal usage shared with JetBrains for AI training	free All Products Pack subscriptions for one year ... currently priced at $979.00 per user/year per developer per year (paid in software licences)	Oct 2025	Payment in kind, not cash, to selected organisations that opt in; the closest public price for real-world professional coding traces per seat.	The Register Press report

Review and upgrade of one real-world coding, data or automation scenario used to train AI assistants (Python, JavaScript, SQL, n8n, Make, Zapier), Vetto Coding, Data and Automations Experts
Price
US$ 30 per approved task
per approved task, about 40 minutes each
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Vetto (a Brazilian-founded expert network) pays the reviewer per approved task in local currency; its own effective rate is about $45 an hour. Read on AITraining.jobs, which has the same owner as AIData.Broker, quoting Vetto's posting (posted about seven months before the read, so dated by the read day).
Source
AITraining.jobs, Vetto job posting: Coding, Data and Automations Experts
The payer's own page
Original SWE-bench style coding task authored from the contributor's own private codebase (maintainer-style issue, hidden fail-to-pass and pass-to-pass tests, reference solution), AfterQuery University SWE Expert
Price
$75 per task that is fully approved
per fully approved task
When
Oct 2026
What to know
AfterQuery pays the contributor only for tasks that pass automated validation (up to five attempts), on top of $300 per codebase connected; the same terms appear in AfterQuery's SWE Experts posting dated 14 Aug 2026, which also states $150 an hour. Undated posting, read on 2026-10-14.
Source
Handshake job posting by AfterQuery, University SWE Expert
The payer's own page
Access to a substantial private codebase the contributor owns, used as the basis for SWE coding tasks (AfterQuery University SWE Expert)
Price
$300 per codebase you connect and use as a basis for tasks
per codebase connected
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Paid to the owner of the private codebase per codebase used, separate from the $75 per approved task; the lowest per-repository figure a named buyer publishes, against $10K to $100K+ at Turing's Lazarus programme.
Source
Handshake job posting by AfterQuery, University SWE Expert
The payer's own page
A well-documented, production-grade private codebase licensed on HUD's DataVendor marketplace
Price
up to $20,000 each
per codebase
When
Oct 2026
What to know
HUD's current ceiling, up from 'up to $10K' in June 2026. The marketplace says codebases have licensed for this much; it takes a 20% platform fee at withdrawal, so the holder nets up to $16,000. Read from the markdown copy the docs publish, because the rendered page typesets its dollar amounts as math and scrambles them for any reader but a browser; unchanged on 15 Oct 2026.
Source
DataVendor (HUD) docs, What you can sell (the page's markdown)
The payer's own page
Custom coding dataset for LLM fine-tuning, focused single-language (1,000 to 5,000 pairs), made to order by LXT
Price
$20K for focused single-language datasets (1,000-5,000 pairs)
per project of 1,000 to 5,000 pairs
When
Oct 2026
What to know
A vendor's published entry price for made-to-order code data; the page names it as where projects start, not a rate card. Undated page, read on 2026-10-14.
Source
LXT, Custom Coding Datasets for LLM Fine-Tuning and Code Generation (FAQ)
A vendor's published price guide
Custom coding dataset for LLM fine-tuning, large multi-language and multi-task with execution-verified code, made to order by LXT
Price
$150K+
per project
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Open-ended top of LXT's stated range; no size is given, so no per-pair figure. Undated page, read on 2026-10-14.
Source
LXT, Custom Coding Datasets for LLM Fine-Tuning and Code Generation (FAQ)
A vendor's published price guide
Reproducible coding RL environment (feature implementation or bug fix with a deterministic verifier and a golden reference solution), micro1 Software Engineer (GitHub Contributor)
Price
$50-100/hour, ~15 hours per run
per hour, about 15 hours per task
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Paid hourly; the per-task figure is the hourly band times micro1's own stated time per task, so it moves with how long a task really takes. A twin posting (Software Engineer, Open Source Contributor) states the same pay and time.
Source
micro1 job board, Software Engineer (GitHub Contributor)
The payer's own page
Git history (commits and their messages) licensed by the token through Pangea's code licensing partner
Price
$40 /M tokens of git history
per million tokens of git history
When
Oct 2026
What to know
An indicative standing rate, paid on top of the source-code rate for the same repository.
Source
Pangea.ai, Code Licensing referral partner guide
The payer's own page
Private codebases licensed through Pangea's network to date: total paid to owners
Price
$600,000 across 380 codebases
in total, across 380 codebases
When
Oct 2026
What to know
The intermediary's own count of realised payouts. The average, about $1,579 a codebase, sits inside its 'typical' tier and far below the five- and six-figure ceilings buyers advertise.
Source
Pangea.ai, Code Licensing referral partner guide
The payer's own page
A private repository of deep depth, licensed non-exclusively through Pangea's code licensing partner
Price
$1,500–$2,000 per repo (deep)
per repository, per licence
When
Oct 2026
What to know
What the owner is paid per licence by Pangea's unnamed partner; Pangea calls its figures deliberately conservative estimates, not guaranteed payouts. Non-exclusive, so a repository can earn this more than once.
Source
Pangea.ai, Code Licensing referral partner guide
The payer's own page
A private repository of light depth, licensed non-exclusively through Pangea's code licensing partner
Price
$700–$1,000 per repo (light)
per repository, per licence
When
Oct 2026
What to know
What the owner is paid per licence by Pangea's unnamed partner; Pangea calls its figures deliberately conservative estimates, not guaranteed payouts. Non-exclusive, so a repository can earn this more than once.
Source
Pangea.ai, Code Licensing referral partner guide
The payer's own page
A private repository of typical depth, licensed non-exclusively through Pangea's code licensing partner
Price
$1,000–$1,500 per repo (typical)
per repository, per licence
When
Oct 2026
What to know
What the owner is paid per licence by Pangea's unnamed partner; Pangea calls its figures deliberately conservative estimates, not guaranteed payouts. Non-exclusive, so a repository can earn this more than once.
Source
Pangea.ai, Code Licensing referral partner guide
The payer's own page
Private source code licensed by the token through Pangea's code licensing partner
Price
$100 /M tokens of source code
per million tokens of source code
When
Oct 2026
What to know
An indicative standing rate, the owner's side with nothing deducted; final value depends on the partner's analysis and buyer demand. A job-board copy of the same rates names Gramian Consulting Group.
Source
Pangea.ai, Code Licensing referral partner guide
The payer's own page
AtCoder competitive-programming dataset (problems, test data, accepted and failed user solutions) licensed to AI companies
Price
budget is $100,000 or more
minimum per licence
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Seller's own minimum order across four tiers (problems only, starter, all accepted, everything); full price list not yet published, and licensing of user code began August 2026.
Source
AtCoder Datasets
The payer's own page
GitHub repositories dataset (3.4M+ records: repository attributes, languages, sizes, contributions, issues, pull requests, forks) sold by Bright Data
Price
$250 for 100K records (approximately $0.0025 per record)
per 100,000 records (one-time)
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Public repository metadata, not licensed source code; a floor for what scraped public code facts cost.
Source
Bright Data, GitHub datasets
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Data-structures-and-algorithms code repositories with programming solutions, price for an initial batch of 1,000 repositories
Price
$98,700
per initial batch of 1,000 repositories
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Asking price on the Opendatabay marketplace (USD since 1 Oct 2026, converted from GBP at $1 = GBP 0.76); seller-stated volumes and rights, not verified by us. Small exercise-style repositories, not production systems. Listed 4 Aug 2026.
Source
Opendatabay, 12K+ DSA Codebases & 64K+ Programming Solutions Dataset (Infobay.AI)
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Legacy software codebases across 20+ industries (400+ codebases, 204M+ lines, 420K+ commits in the full set), price for an initial batch of 20 million lines
Price
$196,100
per initial batch of 20 million lines of code
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Asking price on the Opendatabay marketplace (USD since 1 Oct 2026, converted from GBP at $1 = GBP 0.76); seller-stated volumes and rights, not verified by us. The repository count in the batch is not stated, so no per-repository figure. Listed 4 Aug 2026.
Source
Opendatabay, 400+ Legacy Codebases Dataset (Infobay.AI)
A catalogue or marketplace listing
240+ private commercial repositories with full git history (300,000+ commits, ~42M lines, 44,000+ merged MRs with descriptions, ~463M tokens), de-identified
Price
$263,200
per dataset of 240+ repositories
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Asking price on the Opendatabay marketplace (USD since 1 Oct 2026, converted from GBP at $1 = GBP 0.76); seller-stated volumes and rights, not verified by us. At about $6 per merged MR it lists two orders of magnitude under Turing's $1,000 per PR offer. Listed 8 Sep 2026.
Source
Opendatabay, Commercial Source Code & Engineering Data
A catalogue or marketplace listing
A private repository bought by Turing's Project Lazarus for AI training (all languages, priced on quality and complexity)
Price
Repos typically pay $10k–$100k+ depending on quality and complexity.
per repository
When
Oct 2026
What to know
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.
Source
Turing, Project Lazarus (seller page)
The payer's own page
One self-contained database engineering task for AI agents (engine implementation, production diagnosis or application migration) with a reproducible repository, reference solution, tests and grading criteria, Mercor Database Systems Evaluation Expert pilot
Price
$2.2K per task
per task, about 25 hours of work
When
Oct 2026
What to know
A pilot for the first three qualifying applicants (applications close 16 Oct 2026, task due 30 Oct 2026), each completing one task; at the stated 25 hours it is about $88 an hour. Highest per-task coding rate on Mercor's board on the day read.
Source
Mercor job board, Database Systems Evaluation Expert
The payer's own page
Code Agent Trajectories: 551 verified PASS trajectories from an autonomous code agent in a sandboxed Python environment (reasoning, tool calls, final answer; JSONL, 5.63 MB), sold by Jurgen's Data Lab on Getly
Price
$100.00
per dataset of 551 trajectories
When
Sep 2026
What to know
Machine-generated (an agent's runs judged PASS by an LLM), sold by a one-person storefront with commercial use allowed and no resale; the bottom of the market. The same seller lists a 177-trajectory PASS plus reasoning subset at $150 and a 924-entry bundle of its three sets at $250.
Source
Getly, Fine-Tuning Datasets: Code Agent Trajectories, 551 Verified PASS (Jurgen's Data Lab)
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Premium: 177 verified PASS agent trajectories that also carry full chain-of-thought reasoning (JSONL, ATIF-v0.2, 1.3 MB), sold by Jurgen's Data Lab on Getly
Price
$150.00
per dataset of 177 trajectories
When
Sep 2026
What to know
Machine-generated (an agent's runs judged PASS by an LLM), commercial use allowed, no resale of the file. The top-quality subset of the seller's 551-trajectory set (held at $100); costs 1.5 times the larger set for 177 entries, so the reasoning text is what is priced. The same seller also lists a 196-entry chain-of-thought set at $75 and a bundle of all three sets at $250; both repackage these same trajectories, so they are not counted as separate figures.
Source
Getly, Jurgen's Data Lab: Premium
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Software engineering expert pool (writing engineering problems with reference answers, grading model-written code)
Price
$70 to $150 an hour
per hour
When
Sep 2026
What to know
Mercor's own summary of what its software-engineering projects have paid; a standing pool, not one project.
Source
Mercor job board, Software engineering expert pool
The payer's own page
A failed startup's codebase
Price
Tens of thousands of dollars
per codebase
When
Sep 2026
What to know
One buyer bought five to ten of them. Code alone, without the tickets and discussion around it, is the cheapest company record.
Source
Fortune
Press report
Application user recording real work in Visual Studio Code on macOS (computer-use data)
Price
$55-$65 per hour
per hour
When
Sep 2026
What to know
One of a family of per-application listings (PyCharm, Android Studio and others at the same rate); the worker supplies the machine and licence.
Source
Mercor job board, Application user recording real work in Visual Studio Code on macOS
The payer's own page
A private repository, graded by the platform
Price
$5,000 baseline
per repository
When
Sep 2026
What to know
Troveo's guide citing an unnamed codebase-buying platform's listed baseline, adjusted after grading. Production history, linked tickets and reviews, clean rights and an unusual domain raise it.
Source
Troveo, How to sell source code and workflows to AI labs
The payer's own page
Data-Analysis-Platform: one private multi-service enterprise Git repository with full history (5,683 commits, 1,474 tracked files, about 108,761 lines; Terraform, Python backend, IAM, SQL migrations, API tests), sold by Octobit8 on Opendatabay
Price
$65,800
per repository (one repository, about 10.5 MB with history)
When
Sep 2026
What to know
A seller's asking price on an open marketplace; the commit history spans about two years (Feb 2023 to Jan 2025), listed 10 Aug 2026, updated 2 Sep 2026. Opendatabay converted all GBP prices to USD on 1 Oct 2026 at $1 = 0.76 GBP, so this figure is a conversion of the seller's GBP price. Licence grants non-exclusive AI training rights, no resale.
Source
Opendatabay, Software Engineering & Code Data: Data-Analysis-Platform (Octobit8 (OPC) Private Limited)
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Codebase-exploration RL task on a production Python repository (Django, Twisted, Scrapy, SymPy, mypy, pip and others), Mercor Codebase Q&A
Price
$130 per approved task
per approved task
When
Aug 2026
What to know
Same project and rate as the Go, C and TypeScript tracks; listing active when read. Mercor posts the same $130 per approved task for its Go, C, TypeScript tracks (read 2026-10-14), so scarcer systems languages earn no premium; counted once because it is one programme at one rate. Closed: Mercor shows the posting no longer accepting applications (read 2026-10-17).
Source
Mercor job board, Software Engineer, Python: Codebase Q&A
The payer's own page
Legacy codebase migration expert designing and grading migration tasks for a frontier AI lab
Price
$200 per hour
per hour
When
Aug 2026
What to know
The top hourly rate on the board for code work; legacy migration (COBOL, old Java and .NET) is also what Turing pays most for as codebases.
Source
Mercor job board, Legacy codebase migration expert designing and grading migration tasks for a frontier AI lab
The payer's own page
Frontier Code Agents project for an unnamed AI research lab: use AI coding agents to complete and evaluate realistic engineering tasks, review model-generated code for bugs and edge cases (Mercor, Backend Engineer, Coding Agent Experience)
Price
$400 per accepted task
per accepted task
When
Jun 2026
What to know
One programme at one rate: the Data Engineer, ML Engineer and DevOps/SRE/Cloud Engineer postings of the same project (all created 2026-06-15) state the same $400 and 2 to 3 hours, and the Software Engineers (Coding Agents Experience) posting of 2026-01-13 states $400 and 1 to 3 hours. All are closed (no longer accepting applications) when read; the figure sits in each posting's own description data, while the visible page now shows Mercor's standing $70 to $150 an hour band. About three times Mercor's $130 codebase Q&A task.
Source
Mercor job board, Backend Engineer (Coding Agent Experience)
The payer's own page
One prompt-and-code-review task (writing a prompt, A/B comparing two models' code and picking the better) for Claude Code fine-tuning, Snorkel AI's project Marlin for Anthropic
Price
up to $280 per task
per task, typically about an hour
When
Jun 2026
What to know
Two contractors' account to Business Insider, relayed by a news summary because the Business Insider article was not fetched; a ceiling, not a published rate. At about an hour a task, up to about $280 an hour, far above the $30 to $130 per-task rates platforms post for comparable review.
Source
Let's Data Science, summary of Business Insider: Anthropic uses contractors to improve Claude Code (1 Jun 2026)
Press report
Code repository seeded with an OSS-fuzz-style vulnerability plus a validated patch, AfterQuery Cybersecurity Expert
Price
Earn $300 per accepted task. Each successfully accepted task pays $50
per accepted task
When
May 2026
What to know
The posting states two figures for the same accepted task, $300 in its headline and $50 in its next sentence, plus bonuses up to $180 per repository; the range keeps both. The listing's structured pay also shows $75 an hour.
Source
AITraining.jobs, AfterQuery Cybersecurity Expert (AfterQuery's posting, mirrored)
The payer's own page
Legacy private codebase (COBOL, .NET, Java) licensed to Turing for AI training
Price
$10K to $100K+ depending on complexity
per codebase
When
Mar 2026
What to know
Turing's own published buy-side price guide for Project Lazarus; the top is open-ended and the final price depends on complexity.
Source
Turing (AGI Advance newsletter, Project Lazarus)
A vendor's published price guide
Modern private codebase priced by pull request (Turing Project Lazarus)
Price
$1,000 per PR, up to $10K per codebase
per pull request (capped per codebase)
When
Mar 2026
What to know
Modern codebases are paid per PR with a $10K ceiling per codebase, far below the legacy-language range from the same buyer.
Source
Turing (AGI Advance newsletter, Project Lazarus)
A vendor's published price guide
258k test-verified coding-agent trajectories across 1,655 repositories (CoderForge-Preview, generated synthetically)
Price
total cost of generating ... was $130k
per dataset (about $0.50 per trajectory, derived)
When
Feb 2026
What to know
A production cost at Together's own API prices, released free; it marks a floor for synthetic coding traces, not a sale price.
Source
Together AI
A vendor's published price guide
Coding-benchmark task work in React, TypeScript or JavaScript: curate issues, solutions and test suites from real-world repositories for AI labs (Mercor, Frontend Software Engineer), hourly base plus a bonus per approved task
Price
$90 per hour plus lucrative bonus per approved task (1 task takes approximately 1 hour to complete); Median average pay inclusive of bonuses is $200/hr
per hour (base), and median pay per hour including per-task bonuses
When
Nov 2025
What to know
Mercor states an hourly base plus an unstated bonus per approved task of about an hour; the $200 is its own median hourly pay including bonuses. Closed (no longer accepting applications) when read; one-month, 15 to 20 hours a week project.
Source
Mercor job board, Frontend Software Engineer (React, TypeScript or JavaScript)
The payer's own page
Professional developers' code snippets, edit history, prompts and terminal usage shared with JetBrains for AI training
Price
free All Products Pack subscriptions for one year ... currently priced at $979.00 per user/year
per developer per year (paid in software licences)
When
Oct 2025
What to know
Payment in kind, not cash, to selected organisations that opt in; the closest public price for real-world professional coding traces per seat.
Source
The Register
Press report

What yours might fetch

A first answer or two gives a range. The full valuation asks the rest and shows where every figure comes from.

What is your data worth?

Kind of data

Substantial private repositories

Main language

$3,700to$25,000

On two answers, against 3 public prices. An indication, not an offer.

Full valuation

No data upload
No account
Free

Why labs pay for it

Public code is already in every model. What is not public, and above all the history that shows how a change was requested, argued over and shipped, is what teaches a model to work the way engineers do.

SplitOrdinary web and app code is now a commodity with at least seven intermediaries chasing it (2026). Scarce languages and code tied to its tickets still command a premium.

Who holds it

Software companies
Closed startups
Agencies and independent developers
Industrial and embedded teams

What it looks like

A product's full repository history
Code in scarce languages: COBOL, Fortran, Verilog, ABAP, PLC
Internal tools nobody outside has seen
Repositories with linked issues and reviews

Raises the price

Reviews and tickets linked to the commits
A scarce language or an unusual domain: embedded, scientific, industrial, finance
Years of real production history
Code a buyer can actually run

Lowers it

Common web or app code with no history
Generated code, duplicates and third-party libraries, which buyers strip out first
Open-source licences or client ownership over parts of it

The rights question

Code written for a client usually belongs to the client. Open-source components keep their own licences, and a contractor's work is yours only if the contract says so.

How we take it to buyers

Single repositories are best sold direct to the platforms that grade and list them; we say so and point you there. We take on codebases that come with their tickets, their history or a scarce language, and whole-company sales.

Who buys it

Turing (Lazarus)

"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".

Turing, Lazarus page

Ooak

"Earn up to $1M" (raised from $300K by 15 Oct 2026). Deals to date run from $20K to several hundred thousand dollars.

Ooak, partner page

Labelbox (Prism)

"Smaller targeted datasets starting around $50K and large enterprise partnerships reaching $1M+".

Labelbox Prism, home page

Troveo

"AI labs and startups are actively paying six figures for company data exports", and Troveo pays the holder "on every sale, not just the first".

Troveo, business data page

Corpus Bridge

It cites licences of about $10,000 to several hundred thousand dollars for ordinary companies.

Corpus Bridge, site

SimpleClosure AssetHub

"Tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars for unique assets". Early deals were reported at $10,000 to $100,000.

SimpleClosure, What your assets are worth

Datacurve (Shipd)

Example bounties in the sample panels on its homepage run from $80 to $220 (read 16 Oct 2026; 2,847 registered contributors on its live counter). The panels show sample issues and challenges, not a rate card: "New quests launch every month across dozens of STEM categories".

Shipd, site

Mercor

No figures. "Compensation is based on data volume, the tools you connect, and the depth of your data."

Mercor, data page

All 13 buyers of source code, with their terms

Where source code comes from

The whole supply map

2,635,872
As of 16 October 2026, there are 2,635,872 apps on Google Play and 2,718,308 on the Apple App Store, each backed by a private codebase.
Reaches buyers: Direct deal (Google's confidential Play developer code pilot reported June 2026); otherwise not reaching buyers
42matters, Google Play vs iOS App Store | Store Stats for Mobile Apps, 16 Oct 2026
67.53TB
The Stack v2 contains over 3 billion files in 600+ languages, totalling 67.53TB uncompressed (about 900B training tokens per the card's table).
Reaches buyers: Open download (gated, terms of use)
BigCode on Hugging Face, bigcode/the-stack-v2 dataset card, Feb 2024
775-850 billion lines
A Micro Focus global survey estimated 775 to 850 billion lines of COBOL in daily use.
Reaches buyers: Not yet reaching buyers
IDM, COBOL Market 3X larger than Previously Estimated: Survey, 11 Feb 2022
81.5%
In 2025, 81.5% of contributions on GitHub (4.97B) happened in private repositories, though 63% of all repositories were public.
Reaches buyers: Not yet reaching buyers (private, owner-controlled)
GitHub Blog, Octoverse: A new developer joins GitHub every second as AI leads TypeScript to #1, 28 Oct 2025
630M
GitHub hosts 630 million repositories. 121 million were added in Octoverse year 2025 (Sep 2024 to Aug 2025), including 58 million new private repositories (up 33%).
Reaches buyers: Public: open download or scrape; private: not yet reaching buyers
GitHub Blog, Octoverse: A new developer joins GitHub every second as AI leads TypeScript to #1, 28 Oct 2025
nearly 500 million lines of code
The companies that offered assets on AssetHub since its April launch represent nearly 500 million lines of code across 3,000 repositories, with 1.7 million commits and 200,000 pull requests.
Reaches buyers: Wind-down service marketplace
SimpleClosure, What Your Assets Are Worth, 3 Sep 2026