Companies / Data vendor
Human Archive
Collects first-person video of manual work in India for robot training. Recorded here: what it sells, in its own words and 4 public prices.
San FranciscoFounded 2026humanarchive.aiLatest record 15 Oct 2026
What Human Archive sells
In its own words, read on its own site 15 Oct 2026. On the vendor register
- What it sells
Datasets: “Leading frontier AI labs trust us for their video, sensor, robot deployment, image, and audio datasets.” ycombinator.com
Expert and human data: “Human Archive is currently working alongside leading AI labs to scale human video/sensor data and deploy robotics.” humanarchive.ai
Annotation: “We provide annotations and metadata including environment and scene descriptions, high-level task descriptions, task-aligned atomic action labels, hand tracking, object segmentation, SLAM (extrinsic and intrinsics), and 3D pose reconstruction.” ycombinator.com
- Where its data comes from
Recorded from people and the real world: “The Service lets adult contributors record first-person video of everyday tasks and household activities, submit those recordings to us, and earn payouts for submissions that we approve.” humanarchive.ai
Made by experts and contractors: “we’ve signed national level partnerships to scale our contributor network to 50,000+ people.” ycombinator.com
- Buys data from owners
- Its pages do not say it does.
- Areas its pages name
- Robotics, Images and video, Speech and audio
Public prices involving Human Archive
- Proposed common hourly rate for people who collect robot-training video in India (industry body)
Proposed, not yet agreed; up to 10 times the roughly $1 an hour Human Archive pays today.
Press report, StartupFeed, Indian physical AI startups weigh $7-10 hourly data pay
$7-10 an hourper hour
- Raw egocentric video hours from India, priced by task complexity (Human Archive)
Raw-data price before packaging; the same article says packaged data resells abroad at $15 to $50 per hour and collection rates fell 30% from January to June 2026.
Press report, StartupFeed
$1-10 per hour (Rs 95-946)per hour of video
- Egocentric (first-person) video collection by workers in India for Human Archive
Collector pay only; TechCrunch cites the Economic Times that rival collectors pay about ₹250 to ₹400 (roughly $2.63 to $4.20) per hour.
Press report, TechCrunch
a base rate of $1 per hourper hour (paid to the collector)
- Egocentric data collection workers in India paid by Human Archive's competitors
Two to four times Human Archive's own $1 base rate; Human Archive says its on-the-ground presence lets it pay less.
Press report, TechCrunch, Human Archive taps into India's services startups (citing the Economic Times)
₹250 to ₹400 per hour (roughly $2.63 to $4.20)per hour
Cite this
AIData.Broker, “Human Archive in the AI training data market”, reviewed 15 Oct 2026. https://aidata.markets/companies/human-archive
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