AI Data Payout Calculator
What is your company's data worth?
Published ranges run from $10K-$100K for the archive of a startup that has closed, to $100K-$2M+ for an operating company, with over $1M for unique data. Headcount, years of history, the number of tools and records that link across systems move you up the range. Set your inputs and see the band and the precedents behind it.
How the range is built
Four bands, each tied to a published figure
We place your inputs in a band, then move within it for history, breadth and cross-linked records. The bands are our reading of the precedents below, not a buyer's price list.
$10K-$100K
$100K-$500K
$500K-$2M
$1,000K-$10M
Precedents
Deals that set the market
| Fact | Value and source |
|---|---|
| Spirit Airlines internal archive | $10M from Google, against a $7.5M Mercor bid |
| Reddit data licensing | $203.0M aggregate contract value, 2-3 year terms |
| News Corp and OpenAI | More than $250M over 5 years (WSJ) |
| Wiley | $23M with an unnamed technology company |
| Typical deal | $100K-$2M+ |
| Typical deal | $100K or more |
| Deals closed | 150+ data deals for wound-down startups, typically $10K-$100K each |
| HarperCollins | $5,000 per book for 3 years, split $2,500 author and $2,500 publisher |
FAQ
About data value
micro1 publishes a range of $100K to $2M+ per data package, and over $1M for unique data. Polyshares states a typical $100K to $2M+, and Nyne $100K or more. Mercor and Handshake do not publish offer ranges. For a sense of the top end, Google bid $10M for Spirit Airlines' archive against Mercor's $7.5M.2,3,8,10,4
Buyers want records of real work: Slack and Teams messages, email, docs and wikis, CRM and ticket history, code, calls, and finance and project data. micro1 lists SOPs, knowledge bases and project history; Mercor lists Slack, Gmail, Salesforce, GitHub and 100+ other tools; Nyne buys QuickBooks, NetSuite, HubSpot and Jira data.11,12,13,14
No. We do not answer legal questions, and nothing on this site is legal advice. Ask the licensing company: buyers such as micro1 and Polyshares review what can be licensed with you and say how personal data is removed before anything is transferred. Bring your own counsel into that conversation.15,16
Published ranges run from $10K to $100K for a closed startup to $100K to $2M+ for an operating company, with over $1M for unique data. Large archives go higher: Google bid $10M for Spirit Airlines' archive. Headcount, years of history and records that link across systems push the value up.1,2,3,18,19,20,4