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Mercor advertised talent rate rebounds to $122/hr; run rate doubles to $2B+

Mercor pricing

Mercor Experts hero average contracted rate jumped from $80/hr to $122/hr in two weeks, and its Enterprise page now advertises a $2B+ revenue run rate, double the $1B+ shown through June 2026.

Before

Average contracted rate $80/hr (late June 2026); $1B+ revenue run rate; $3M+ daily payouts; 287.1K roles created.

After

Average contracted rate $122/hr; $2B+ revenue run rate; $4M+ daily payouts; 305.0K roles created.

Mercor’s single public price signal — the “average contracted rate” advertised on its Experts marketplace — continues to swing sharply. After being relabeled from “average pay” and reset down to $80/hr in late June 2026, the figure climbed back to $122/hr by mid-July, roughly a 52% move in two weeks. Roles created rose to 305.0K and advertised daily payouts to experts ticked up from $3M+ to $4M+.

Separately, the Enterprise page scale banner now advertises a $2B+ revenue run rate, double the $1B+ it showed through June 2026 (valuation $10B, 100k+ contractors hired, and 400+ full-time employees are unchanged).

The buyer-side price — Mercor’s marketplace take-rate or engagement fee — remains undisclosed on every surface (Experts, Data, Enterprise, Partner), each of which still terminates in a “Talk to the team” contact form with no rate card. Individual expert role listings still span roughly $60–$250/hr.

From Mercor's pricing timeline
Headline rate rebounds to $122/hr; revenue run rate doubles to $2B+

Two weeks after being reset to $80/hr, the Experts hero 'average contracted rate' climbed to $122/hr, while roles created rose to 305.0K and daily payouts ticked up to $4M+. Separately, the Enterprise page's advertised revenue run rate doubled from $1B+ to $2B+ (valuation $10B, 100k+ contractors, 400+ employees unchanged). Individual role listings still span $60–$250/hr and every buyer surface remains a 'Talk to the team' form with no rate card.

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Mercor is a sales-gated AI talent and data marketplace that places vetted human experts onto AI training, evaluation, and agent-building projects for frontier AI labs and enterprises.

Pricing model pure usage
Billing units tasks
Sales motion sales led
Free tier
No
Commits
None
Transparency
sales only

Mercor pricing history

  1. Aug 2026
    Rate eases to $109/hr; Enterprise page's four offering-step demos refreshed
  2. Aug 2026
    Enterprise proof section doubles: three new case studies added, two relabeled
  3. Aug 2026
    Enterprise page rebuilt: scale-stats bar and self-referential case study removed; Agent Benchmarking renamed Agent Optimization
  4. Jul 2026
    Data-partnership referral bonus disclosed: up to $100K per referral
  5. Jul 2026
    Buyer lines renamed to Enterprise agents / Human data / Data monetization; data payout base widens to 50+ tools
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