MTurk alternative
An MTurk alternative for business tasks
Amazon Mechanical Turk closed for good on 2026-09-30. If you used it for data entry, document checks, catalog work or AI review, a trained team can take that work on at $5 per hour per person.
What happened, with dates
- 2026-07-30MTurk stopped accepting new requesters.
- 2026-09-30MTurk closed permanently.
- Until 2026-10-30requesters can still approve or reject completed HITs.
- Until 2027-01-28requesters can still see their transaction history.
SageMaker Ground Truth and Amazon A2I are not closing. Only the Amazon Mechanical Turk workforce option is gone. See what that means for your workflows →
Sources: Amazon Mechanical Turk and AWS notices, checked 2026-09-30.
Two things to do this month, whatever you choose next
- 1.Approve or reject completed HITs before 2026-10-30, so the people who did the work get paid.
- 2.Download your transaction history before 2027-01-28 for your finance and audit records.
Is this the right fit?
Good fit
Business and data tasks that repeat. Data entry, document checks, catalog data, AI output review, text labeling, transcription, research. You want the same trained people, a lead to talk to, and quality you can check.
Not a fit
- · Academic surveys or research participants. Prolific and CloudResearch are built for this.
- · Thousands of one-off micro-tasks sent by API to many strangers at once. We staff a team, not an open marketplace.
- · Graphic or violent content moderation.
What changes when you move from MTurk
| MTurk | Deepen AI Services | |
|---|---|---|
| Who does the work | Anonymous workers, often different every batch | A known, trained team with a named team lead |
| How you pay | Per task, plus fees | Per hour, per person. $5 for common tasks |
| How work arrives | HITs posted on the site or by API | We work inside your tools, or in your Ground Truth or A2I portal |
| Quality | You write qualifications and review the work yourself | Gold examples, QA sampling and review tiers, run by us and reported weekly |
| Instructions | Written once, read by strangers | Trained into the team, updated with your team lead |
| How you start | Post a batch | A two-week paid pilot |
What you give up: instant access to a very large pool for short bursts, and per-task pricing. What you get is a group of people who learn your rules and a lead who answers for the result.
How the pilot works
- 1.Describe the task in the pilot form. Share a sample and your old HIT instructions if you have them.
- 2.We reply with a pilot plan: people, hours, start date and price.
- 3.We train the team on your instructions and examples.
- 4.Two weeks of real work, with a team lead, QA checks and a weekly report.
- 5.You decide whether to continue.
FAQ
Can I reuse my MTurk HIT instructions?
Yes. We use your instructions and examples to train the team. The HIT page itself does not carry over. If your task runs in Ground Truth or A2I, we work in that portal instead.
Do you have an API for posting tasks?
No. We work inside your tools. If you need to send work from code, Ground Truth or A2I can route it to us as your private workforce.
What does it cost?
$5 per hour per person for common tasks. See the pricing page for what is included.
I ran academic research on MTurk. Can you help?
Not with participant recruitment. Prolific and CloudResearch are built for it.