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Updated October 2026

Mercor vs Nyne: a large buyer and a seed-stage one

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You are weighing a giant against a startup. Mercor is one of the largest AI data companies, valued at $10B, and Nyne is a seed-funded startup. Mercor tells you when you get paid, a wire 2-4 weeks after signing with no fees, but not how much. Nyne tells you roughly how much, commonly $100K or more for firms with 20+ US W-2 staff, but not when.1,2,3,4,5,6,7

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Side by side

Mercor and Nyne, row by row

Mercor compared with Nyne
TopicMercorNyne
PriceNot published5Commonly $100K or more6
PaymentWire 2-4 weeks after signing; no fees3,4After delivery and acceptance; no timeline8
Who qualifiesNo minimum company size stated920+ full-time US W-2 staff, 3+ years7
ToolsSlack, Teams, Gmail, Outlook, Salesforce, GitHub, Drive, Notion and 100+ more10QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, Salesforce, HubSpot, Asana, Jira; chat and email11,8
SecuritySOC 2 Type II; confirmed a 2026 cyberattack, class actions filed12,13,14No certification published
Competing offersNot publishedBeats a qualifying written offer on net cash15,16

Which fits

Small firm or enterprise

Nyne talks to owners directly, with Facebook ads about old dispatch logs and a floor of 20 W-2 employees. Mercor names eight industries from legal to logistics and connects to the tools you already run, which suits a company with years of Slack, email and CRM data, and it has approached companies during acquisitions, such as Warmly after its sale to HubSpot.17,7,18,10,19

Using both

Getting a number out of each

Since Mercor publishes no price, ask it for a written offer first. Nyne says it will beat a qualifying written offer for the same data and rights on net contracted cash, so a Mercor offer gives Nyne something concrete to answer.5,16

Ask both the same questions about personal details. Mercor points to its SOC 2 Type II report, and Nyne says names, identifiers and customer details are removed and whole categories can be left out. Get each answer in the contract, not on the sales call.12,20

Neither is a buyer we work with. If you want more offers to compare, the quiz introduces you to the buyers we work with that take a company your size, and any written offer you get can go to Nyne under its beat-an-offer promise.16

FAQ

Questions, answered with sources

  • Mercor says it wires payment 2-4 weeks after signing. Nyne pays after delivery and acceptance and publishes no timeline.3,8

  • Mercor publishes no price; Nyne says commonly $100K or more. Compare written offers.5,6

  • It states no minimum company size. Nyne requires 20+ full-time US W-2 staff and 3+ years.9,7

  • Mercor confirmed a cyberattack tied to the LiteLLM compromise in 2026, and class actions were filed.13,14

  • It says it beats qualifying written offers for the same data and rights on net cash, with no fixed uplift.15,16

  • Every business is different, so this one is best talked through with the buyer you're working with. Their team goes over it with you before anything is signed.

Before you sign

Questions to talk through with your buyer

Every business is different, so these are best talked through with the buyer you're working with. Their team goes over them with you before anything is signed.

Questions for this kind of business

  • How do CCPA, GDPR, UK GDPR and state privacy laws apply, and is de-identified data still personal information?
  • Do customer, vendor or platform contracts, NDAs or API terms restrict this?

Questions for any buyer

  • Is the license exclusive, and for how long?
  • Can you sublicense the data, and to whom?
  • Which AI labs will receive it, and will you tell us?
  • How long do you keep it, and how is it deleted?
  • What is your liability cap, and who indemnifies whom?
  • Will the contract ban re-identification of people in the data?
  • Who removes personal data, by what method, and do we approve it first?

How this page was made

Figures come from the published sources listed below, and what a buyer says about itself is its own claim. Anything marked as our estimate is ours, not a buyer quote. Drafted with AI help from our research, then checked against each source. Updated October 2026.

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Sources (20)

  1. 1.TechCrunch, published 27 Oct 2025. Accessed 14 Oct 2026.
  2. 2.TechCrunch, published 13 Mar 2026. Accessed 14 Oct 2026.
  3. 3.Mercor Data page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  4. 4.Mercor Data page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  5. 5.Mercor Data page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  6. 6.Nyne sell-company-data page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  7. 7.Nyne sell-company-data page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  8. 8.Nyne data partnerships page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  9. 9.Mercor Data page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  10. 10.Mercor Data page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  11. 11.Nyne sell-company-data page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  12. 12.Mercor Data page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  13. 13.TechCrunch, published 31 Mar 2026. Accessed 14 Oct 2026.
  14. 14.HR Dive, published 13 Apr 2026. Accessed 14 Oct 2026.
  15. 15.Nyne sell-company-data page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  16. 16.Nyne compare offers page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  17. 17.Meta Ad Library, Nyne.ai page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  18. 18.Mercor Data page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.
  19. 19.AI Weekly, summarising The Information, published 15 Aug 2026. Accessed 14 Oct 2026.
  20. 20.Nyne sell-company-data page. Accessed 14 Oct 2026. Company's own claim.