$5000+ per coding task (a floor: 'plus')
One decent RL coding task bought by a frontier lab from a data or environment company
Dated 9 Jul 2026Source checked 15 Oct 2026Quote found on its page again 17 Oct 2026Basis: reported
In the source's own words
“Frontier labs are willing to pay $5000+ for a single decent coding task.”
Where it was read
Also read from the same source
- Labour cost of one good RL coding task at Mechanize: an engineer paid $400k+ a year expected to make one good task a week
- SemiAnalysis reports Anthropic as the most aggressive lab in buying coding data from RL environment startups, while its own engineers have also made coding tasks for over a year; labs pay $5,000+ for one decent coding task.
What it is about
- SemiAnalysis
- Datasets, tasks and environments
Figures it counts in
- $2,837 per taskDatasets, tasks and environments, made to order, per task
- 9.5xHow much more buyers pay than makers are paid for datasets, tasks and environments, per task
- 36Prices per task behind every valuation of a task set
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