a $1,500 cost basis per task
Cost basis of one expert-written RL task at Mercor (ten hours of expert time at $150 an hour)
Dated 15 Oct 2026Source checked 15 Oct 2026Quote found on its page again 17 Oct 2026Basis: vendor
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“when we have a task that takes ten hours of human time and we're paying the human $150 an hour, there might be a $1,500 cost basis”
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- $1,500 per taskDatasets, tasks and environments, cost to produce, per task
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