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SemiAnalysis
Research and analysis firm covering AI infrastructure, which reports what labs pay for coding tasks and environments. Recorded here: 2 public prices.
semianalysis.comLatest record 9 Jul 2026
Public prices involving SemiAnalysis
- One decent RL coding task bought by a frontier lab from a data or environment company
Analyst reporting, not a price list: what labs are willing to pay, stated as a floor. The same piece says Anthropic has been the most aggressive lab in buying coding data from RL environment startups. Ten times Epoch's typical $200 to $2,000 per task and above Mechanize's $500 minimum, so a 2026 coding task of frontier difficulty prices like a small project, not like annotation.
Press report, SemiAnalysis, The Future of Meta Superintelligence: A 1 Year Progress Update (Kan, Martin-Prin, Eliahou Ontiveros, Patel)
$5000+per coding task (a floor: 'plus')
- UI gym: a replica of a consumer website (DoorDash or Uber Eats class) sold to a lab as an RL environment, a one-time purchase reused for later models
The primary behind Epoch's website-replica figure: SemiAnalysis says environment companies hire overseas developers to replicate a site's UI and sell the mock-up to labs, and that OpenAI has purchased hundreds of sites for ChatGPT Agent training. The article is paid; the lines quoted are in its free preview. The paragraph carries the source line "A public talk by Karina Nguyen, SemiAnalysis".
Press report, SemiAnalysis (AJ and Dylan Patel), RL Environments and RL for Science: Data Foundries and Multi-Agent Architectures
about $20,000 per websiteper website replica
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AIData.Broker, “SemiAnalysis in the AI training data market”, reviewed 9 Jul 2026. https://aidata.markets/companies/semianalysis
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