Kinds of data

Images

Photo and illustration libraries you own, with or without descriptions.

Public price: $0.27 to $5.27
per image
Demand: Falling
Who buys: Image-model companies, labs, data marketplaces

The market rate for images, by side

The median where three or more figures exist, otherwise the figures we hold. Each side is a different point in the market: what the people who make it are paid, what holders are offered, what catalogues ask, what was paid.

Paid to the people who make it

$0.54

per image, median of 8 figures; middle half $0.29 to $1.31

Paid to the people who make it

$5.00 to $35

per hour of work, from 2 figures

Paid to the people who make it

$7.50

per task, from 1 figure

Offered to holders

$0.35

per image, median of 6 figures; middle half $0.15 to $2.52

Sales that happened

$0.063

per image, median of 4 figures; middle half $0.023 to $0.11

Asking prices off the shelf

$1.71

per image, median of 24 figures; middle half $0.27 to $5.27

Asking prices off the shelf

$1.13

per record, median of 3 figures; middle half $1.00 to $1.88

Made to order

$0.44

per image, median of 4 figures; middle half $0.064 to $0.91

Made to order

$100

per task, median of 3 figures; middle half $78 to $200

What images has sold or been offered for

The whole price board

Public prices for images
What was sold or offered	Price	When	What to know	Source
New RAW photos (or paired images) taken by the contributor for a client's computer-vision training set, Ronia Raw Photo Collection, residents of United States	$1.50 USD per each accepted photo per accepted photo	Oct 2026	TransPerfect's DataForce pays contributors per photo that passes QA; no cap per person, but categories close when full; contributors keep ownership and the client uses the photos internally. The same $1.50 rate is posted for all eight country pages found (US, Japan, Italy, Denmark, Mexico, Turkey, South Africa, Thailand), so treat them as one programme priced globally in USD. The same $1.50 per accepted photo is posted for Japan, Italy, Denmark, Mexico, Turkey, South Africa, Thailand (read 2026-10-14); counted once here because it is one programme at one rate.	DataForce Community (TransPerfect), Ronia Raw Photo Collection - United States The payer's own page
Old photo restoration set: two provided old photos, each restored and paired with written edit instructions, for AI image-editing training data	$5 per an approved set per approved set of 2 restored images	Oct 2026	Restoration pays twice the per-image rate of Wirestock's general editing sets ($2.50 against $1.25), for a more skilled edit. Paid only once participation is approved and the set accepted.	Wirestock, Submission Guidelines for Old Photo Restoration The payer's own page
Project Vertex: a set of 4 progressive edits of a provided real photo (compositing, background swap, object insert or removal, colour change) with written step notes, for AI image-editing training data	$5 for every accepted Image Set per accepted set of 4 edited images	Oct 2026	Wirestock pays editors per accepted set, monthly; the photos are supplied, so the pay is for the editing and the instructions, the paired before-and-after data image-editing models train on. Wirestock's page answers a plain browser; an automated fetch may get a holding page.	Wirestock, Project Vertex: Paid Photo Editing Work The payer's own page
Custom image classification dataset, focused single-domain (5,000 to 20,000 images)	$8K for focused single-domain datasets (5,000-20,000 images) to $100K+ for large multi-class per project of 5,000 to 20,000 images	Oct 2026	Vendor FAQ range for commissioned image classification datasets. Large multi-class, fine-grained collections run $100K+.	LXT, Custom Image Classification Datasets FAQ A vendor's published price guide
Unidata Anti-Spoofing Real Videos Dataset, 87,340 files (video clips and selfies) of 43,700 people, consented crowdsourcing	Starts at $15,000 / purchase per dataset of 87,340 files (videos and selfie images)	Oct 2026	A floor price, shown but not averaged; per file, mixing short videos and selfie photos, no hours stated. The country count conflicts on the page (170, 179, 250).	Datarade, Unidata listing: Anti-Spoofing Real Videos Dataset, 87,340 Files A catalogue or marketplace listing
Unidata Medical Masks (face-mask detection) Dataset, 167,880 face images of 41,970 people in 4 mask states	Starts at $10,000 / purchase per dataset of 167,880 images	Oct 2026	A floor price, shown but not averaged; face photos, not medical imaging. No consent statement (the page says both actors and crowdsourcing).	Datarade, Unidata listing: Medical Masks Dataset, 167,880 Images A catalogue or marketplace listing
Unidata Kids & Teens Aging Dataset (ages 7 to 15), 10,214 facial images of 1,022 minors	Starts at $30,000 / purchase per dataset of 10,214 images	Oct 2026	A floor price, shown but not averaged; faces of minors carry the highest per-image price in the run. No consent statement, only a GDPR compliance claim.	Datarade, Unidata listing: Kids & Teens Aging Dataset (Ages 7-15), 10,214 images A catalogue or marketplace listing
Unidata Car License Plate Detection Dataset, 3,809,704 annotated road-camera images across 93 countries	Starts at $30,000 / purchase per dataset of 3,809,704 images	Oct 2026	A floor price, shown but not averaged. Frames taken from road and traffic-camera video, the lowest per-image figure in the run.	Datarade, Unidata listing: Car License Plate Detection Dataset, 3,809,704 Images A catalogue or marketplace listing
Unidata Open Palm Hand Images Dataset, 500,000 annotated images from 50,000 people	Starts at $10,000 / purchase per dataset of 500,000 images	Oct 2026	A floor price, shown but not averaged. Crowdsourced, with no consent statement, only a GDPR claim.	Datarade, Unidata listing: Open Palm Hand Images Dataset, 500,000 Images A catalogue or marketplace listing
Unidata Selfie with ID Dataset, 69,435 selfie and ID-photo images of 4,629 people from 85 countries	Starts at $10,000 / purchase per dataset of 69,435 images	Oct 2026	A floor price, shown but not averaged. Claims GDPR compliance and crowdsourcing but does not say the subjects consented.	Datarade, Unidata listing: Selfie with ID Dataset, 69,435 images A catalogue or marketplace listing
Unidata Synthetic Passports Dataset, 100,000 AI-generated passport images with MRZ metadata	Starts at $30,000 / purchase per dataset of 100,000 images	Oct 2026	A floor price, shown but not averaged. Synthetic (AI-generated) document images, not real IDs.	Datarade, Unidata listing: Synthetic Passports Dataset, 100 000 Images A catalogue or marketplace listing
Annotation of drone and maritime imagery, United States	$20 to $60 per hour per hour	Oct 2026	Labelling pay, not capture; part-time remote contract.	OpenTrain AI, Drone and Maritime Imagery Annotation Specialist The payer's own page
Face deduplication collection: neutral selfies, head-pose captures and historical facial photos	$0.55 USD per accepted image per accepted image	Oct 2026	The ad text is reposted by job boards. Working Nomads names TELUS Digital as the employer, and TELUS's own careers pages returned 403.	RemoteJobs.org (repost via Jobs for Humanity), Face Deduplication Collection The payer's own page
20K+ Infectious Dermatology Images with Prescriptions Dataset (JPG images paired with PDF prescriptions)	$196,100 per dataset (20,000 image and prescription pairs)	Oct 2026	Dermatology photos each paired with a prescription document, so the per-image figure includes the paired record.	Opendatabay, 20K+ Infectious Dermatology Images with Prescriptions Dataset listing A catalogue or marketplace listing
187K+ X-Ray Images Dataset (DICOM, 79K+ anonymized patients), Infobay.Ai on Opendatabay	$914,500 per dataset (187,300 X-ray images)	Oct 2026	De-identified DICOM X-rays from 79K+ patients; the seller says final pricing varies with volume, annotation and customisation.	Opendatabay, 187K+ X-Ray Images Dataset listing A catalogue or marketplace listing
193K+ X-Ray Images Dataset (JPG, 119K+ anonymized patients), Infobay.Ai on Opendatabay	$975,900 per dataset (193,100 X-ray images)	Oct 2026	De-identified JPEG X-rays (chest, abdomen, spine, extremities) from 119K+ patients; final pricing varies with requirements.	Opendatabay, 193K+ X-Ray Images Dataset (JPG) listing A catalogue or marketplace listing
Multi-View Drone Imagery & 3D Scenes, multi-country computer vision dataset	Starts at $10,000 / purchase one-off purchase	Oct 2026	A floor price for drone imagery and 3D scenes for computer vision; the image count is not on the catalogue card, so no per-image figure.	Datarade, Drone Imagery Datasets search page A catalogue or marketplace listing
Facial Skin Condition Dataset, 639 images of 213 people (acne, blackheads, redness, under-eye bags)	Starts at $1,000 / purchase one-off purchase	Oct 2026	A floor price, shown but not averaged. Cosmetic skin-condition photos (acne, redness), dermatology-adjacent.	Datarade, Unidata Facial Skin Condition Dataset product page A catalogue or marketplace listing
Hair Loss Dataset, 6,020 labeled scalp images of 1,160 people (alopecia classification and segmentation)	Starts at $2,000 / purchase one-off purchase	Oct 2026	A floor price, shown but not averaged. Scalp photos for alopecia classification and segmentation.	Datarade, Unidata Hair Loss Dataset product page A catalogue or marketplace listing
H&E pathology whole slide images from the HistAI DataHub, perpetual commercial licence, 1–99 slide tier	$5.00 per slide (1–99 slides) per slide, 1–99 tier	Oct 2026	Self-serve tiered list price; the DataHub holds 212,000+ slides.	HistAI, homepage pricing table (DataHub WSI Pricing) A catalogue or marketplace listing
H&E pathology whole slide images from the HistAI DataHub, perpetual commercial licence, 100–999 slide tier	$4.00 per slide (100–999 slides) per slide, 100–999 tier	Oct 2026	Self-serve tiered list price; the DataHub holds 212,000+ slides.	HistAI, homepage pricing table (DataHub WSI Pricing) A catalogue or marketplace listing
H&E pathology whole slide images from the HistAI DataHub, perpetual commercial licence, 1000–9999 slide tier	$3.00 per slide (1000–9999 slides) per slide, 1000–9999 tier	Oct 2026	Self-serve tiered list price; the DataHub holds 212,000+ slides.	HistAI, homepage pricing table (DataHub WSI Pricing) A catalogue or marketplace listing
H&E pathology whole slide images from the HistAI DataHub, perpetual commercial licence, 10000+ slide tier	$2.00 per slide (10000+ slides) per slide, 10000+ tier	Oct 2026	Self-serve tiered list price; the DataHub holds 212,000+ slides.	HistAI, homepage pricing table (DataHub WSI Pricing) A catalogue or marketplace listing
IHC and other pathology whole slide images from the HistAI DataHub, perpetual commercial licence, 1–99 slide tier	$40.00 per slide (1–99 slides) per slide, 1–99 tier	Oct 2026	Stained (IHC and other) slides cost about eight to twelve times H&E at the same tier.	HistAI, homepage pricing table (DataHub WSI Pricing) A catalogue or marketplace listing
IHC and other pathology whole slide images from the HistAI DataHub, perpetual commercial licence, 100–999 slide tier	$32.00 per slide (100–999 slides) per slide, 100–999 tier	Oct 2026	Stained (IHC and other) slides cost about eight to twelve times H&E at the same tier.	HistAI, homepage pricing table (DataHub WSI Pricing) A catalogue or marketplace listing
IHC and other pathology whole slide images from the HistAI DataHub, perpetual commercial licence, 1000–9999 slide tier	$27.00 per slide (1000–9999 slides) per slide, 1000–9999 tier	Oct 2026	Stained (IHC and other) slides cost about eight to twelve times H&E at the same tier.	HistAI, homepage pricing table (DataHub WSI Pricing) A catalogue or marketplace listing
IHC and other pathology whole slide images from the HistAI DataHub, perpetual commercial licence, 10000+ slide tier	$23.00 per slide (10000+ slides) per slide, 10000+ tier	Oct 2026	Stained (IHC and other) slides cost about eight to twelve times H&E at the same tier.	HistAI, homepage pricing table (DataHub WSI Pricing) A catalogue or marketplace listing
Single archive high-resolution optical satellite image, SkyFi marketplace	Starting at $ 15 per single archive image	Oct 2026	A floor price for one archive image; general commercial imagery, not sold specifically as training data.	SkyFi, Pricing page A catalogue or marketplace listing
Single newly tasked high-resolution optical satellite image, SkyFi	Starting at $ 200 per single tasking image	Oct 2026	A floor price for one newly tasked capture to order; general commercial imagery, not sold specifically as training data.	SkyFi, Pricing page A catalogue or marketplace listing
The Cancer Imaging Archive (NCI) collections (CT, MRI, PET, pathology) under CC BY 3.0 or 4.0	freely available per collection download	Oct 2026	The zero-price public anchor for oncology imaging (CT, MRI, PET, pathology); a few collections are non-commercial or under NIH controlled access.	TCIA, Data Usage Policies and Restrictions The payer's own page
AKYS Pathfinder A2 Motorway 360-degree imagery, Lithuania, 2,081 11K panoramas	$460 per dataset of 2,081 panoramas	Sep 2026	The same seller's Vilnius pack is 5x cheaper per image, which suggests small packs carry a minimum price. The size is stated only in the title.	Opendatabay, AKYS.AI listing: AKYS Pathfinder: A2 Motorway 360° Imagery, 2,081 × 11K Panoramas (LT) A catalogue or marketplace listing
AKYS Pathfinder Vilnius City 360-degree street imagery, 16,318 11K equirectangular panoramas with per-image pose, faces and plates blurred	$720 per dataset of 16,318 panoramas	Sep 2026	Captured 2026-08-29. The licence allows commercial use and ML training but not redistribution.	Opendatabay, AKYS.AI listing: AKYS Pathfinder: Vilnius City 360° Imagery, 16,318 × 11K Panoramas A catalogue or marketplace listing
MOYU Solutions Drone Park Vehicle Congestion Dataset, 20,000 1080p drone images, 30 GB	$10,500 per dataset of 20,000 images	Sep 2026	$10,500 for 20,000 images is the same template price as JoinAI's drone image sets.	Opendatabay, MOYU SOLUTIONS PTE. LTD listing: Drone Park Vehicle Congestion Dataset A catalogue or marketplace listing
Matthew Britton Illustration, full Lineartestpilot stock illustration portfolio, 850,000 hand-drawn images x 3 formats (2.5M files)	$78,900 per dataset of 850,000 images (2.55M files)	Sep 2026	A creator-owned stock portfolio. The licence field shows CC-BY-NC, which conflicts with commercial AI use and needs checking.	Opendatabay, Matthew Britton Illustration Ltd listing: 2.5 Million Hand Drawn Illustrations A catalogue or marketplace listing
Medical Imaging & Radiology Dataset (CT, X-ray, MRI and other modalities with diagnostic reports, DICOM)	$1,315,800 per dataset of 500K study records (category card)	Sep 2026	Same asking price, now read on the listing itself (it left the healthcare index page). Since 1 October 2026 Opendatabay prices in USD, converting older GBP listings at a fixed $1 = GBP 0.76. The listing says records are arranged per project scope, so the per-record figure (from the index card's 500K) is indicative.	Opendatabay, Medical Imaging & Radiology Dataset listing (S Chand and Company) A catalogue or marketplace listing
Face Deduplication collection: a set of 22 to 24 approved photos of oneself (current front-facing and head-pose shots plus older photos from the camera roll), contributors aged 45 or over	up to $12 for a completed set of 22–24 approved images per completed set of 22 to 24 approved images (ceiling, varies by location)	Aug 2026	Shaip pays per approved image, $12 being the top of a regional rate card that is not shown; older historical photos of the same face are part of the set, so part of what is bought is existing photos. Compare TELUS Digital's $0.55 per accepted face image already in the store.	Shaip Collaborate, Face Deduplication Project The payer's own page
Nexdata 1.51 Million Sets of single-image and multi-image fusion image editing data (before/after pairs with instructions)	$1,315,800 per dataset of 1.51 million editing sets	Aug 2026	The per-unit figure is per editing set (source image or images, edited image, instruction), not per single image.	Opendatabay, Nexdata listing: 1.51 Million Sets Image Editing Data A catalogue or marketplace listing
Nexdata 116,048 sets of 3D hand pose gesture data (RGB hand mask, 16-bit depth, keypoints, mesh)	$131,600 per dataset of 116,048 sets	Aug 2026	The per-unit figure is per multi-file set (RGB, depth, 3D keypoints, mesh), not per single image. Commercial licence.	Opendatabay, Nexdata listing: 116048 Sets 3D Hand Pose Gesture Recognition Dataset A catalogue or marketplace listing
Matthew Britton Illustration, 10,000 hand-drawn vector images x 3 formats (JPG, SVG, PNG) subset of the Lineartestpilot portfolio	$3,950 per dataset of 10,000 images (30,000 files)	Aug 2026	This test batch costs about 4x the full portfolio per image, a volume discount. The licence field shows CC-BY-NC.	Opendatabay, Matthew Britton Illustration Ltd listing: 30,000 JPG, SVG & PNG Hand Drawn Vector Images A catalogue or marketplace listing
Infobay.AI 1.2M+ Infographic Image Dataset (price for initial batch of 500,000 infographic images)	$487,100 per initial batch of 500,000 images	Jul 2026	Document-style images for OCR and VQA. The listing says the price covers a 500,000-image batch.	Opendatabay, Infobay.Ai listing: 1.2M+ Infographic Image Dataset A catalogue or marketplace listing
Infobay.AI 873K+ Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Image Dataset (icons, illustrations, logos, diagrams, UI elements)	$255,400 per dataset of 873K+ SVG images	Jul 2026	The final price varies with requirements. The seller cites vendor agreements for provenance but does not describe creator consent.	Opendatabay, Infobay.Ai listing: 873K+ Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Image Dataset A catalogue or marketplace listing
De-identified medical imaging records and clinical reports for a foundation model (OneMedNet, initial agreement)	in excess of $11.5 million total contract value of the initial agreement	Jul 2026	OneMedNet contracts for a network of more than 2,300 healthcare sites; the foundation-model developer buying is not named. An initial agreement, so the figure is a floor.	Pulse 2.0, OneMedNet secures $11.5+ million agreement Press report
Photos of everyday objects at home, uploaded with object name and details, for a global AI training data project (gig workers in several countries)	$0.28 per approved image per approved image	Jul 2026	Firstsource's own advert as carried by a job board, posted 8 July 2026 and closed 6 September 2026; it puts a typical session at 100 to 500 images, $30 to $140.	CazVid job board, Data Collector (Firstsource), Mexico City listing The payer's own page
Aerometrex 3D city datasets and LiDAR licensed off the shelf to two AI firms (Zeromatter, Neara) for training	a combined value of AUD $1.07 million for two licences combined value of two off-the-shelf licences	Jun 2026	Two signed licences of existing catalogue data, one to train autonomous systems. The per-licence figure is the combined value split evenly; the split between the two was not given.	FilingReader news wire, summary of Aerometrex's ASX announcement Press report
Natural real-world photos for AI training, Zone 1 contributors (India, Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal), no logos, IDs or plates, full rights held	Zone 1 ($0.20 - $0.25) per approved image	Jun 2026	A client's posted rate card for its lowest-cost zone (posted about four months before reading, now closed; the same rate was reposted about a month before reading). The zone naming implies higher rates elsewhere, which the posting does not state.	Freelancer.in, Global Real-World Image Collection for AI Training (Zone 1), project 40467538 The payer's own page
Bounding box image annotation	$0.03–$0.20 per image per image	Apr 2026	BPO vendor price guide. Its volume table falls from $0.18 at 100 images to $0.05 at 50,000; segmentation is $0.50 to $1.20+ per image.	GigaBPO, Data Labeling Cost per Image: 2026 Pricing A vendor's published price guide
Image classification labeling	$0.01–0.05 per image per image	Mar 2026	Price depends on number of categories and class ambiguity.	WeLabelData, Data Labeling Pricing Guide 2026 A vendor's published price guide
Semantic (pixel-level) segmentation labeling	$0.50–3.00 per image per image	Mar 2026	Price depends on number of classes, resolution and precision required.	WeLabelData, Data Labeling Pricing Guide 2026 A vendor's published price guide
Two multiyear licences of Getty Images content (a major social platform and a large AI company)	approximately $65,000,000 total deal value; about $40,000,000 recognized in Q4 2025 for two deals combined	Mar 2026	Disclosed by management; buyers unnamed, and the social-platform deal includes display rights, so neither is a pure training-data price.	Getty Images Q4 2025 earnings call (transcript, The Motley Fool) The payer's own page
Shutterstock Data, Distribution, and Services revenue (library and metadata licensing, including to AI developers), fourth quarter of 2025, all buyers	$30.7 million, down $7.1 million or 19% on Q4 2024 per quarter (all buyers)	Feb 2026	Aggregate revenue of the product line that holds Shutterstock's AI data licensing, not one deal; the same line grew 16% for the full year 2025.	Shutterstock Q4 and full-year 2025 results, Exhibit 99.1 (SEC) The payer's own page
Photos of televisions and displays taken inside the home, existing or newly shot, for a corporate client's image-recognition training set, bought per accepted photo through Imagenavi's Mitsukaru Mall (Japan)	20ポイント/1枚 per accepted photo (20 points, 1 point = 1 yen)	Feb 2026	Imagenavi pays individuals in points, cashable from 500 yen, for each photo a corporate client accepts; its creator page invites people to pick a matching photo they already have or shoot a new one, so this is a buyer's per-photo offer to holders. The call closed on 12 Feb 2026, the client is not named, and new contributor sign-ups closed on 3 Sep 2026.	Mitsukaru Mall (Imagenavi), AIデータセット提供募集中案件一覧 (open AI dataset calls) The payer's own page
Smartphone photo collection for an AI training image dataset (tripod, JPEG of 4 MB or more, minimum 250 photos)	$0.30 per approved photo per approved photo	Feb 2026	Recruiter's own posting: contributors take new photos to a brief and are paid only for approved photos, whatever the category; a 250-photo minimum puts one package at $75. The end client is not named.	Mindy Teams, vacancy: Photography Contributor: AI Data Collection Project The payer's own page
Existing camera-roll photos sold through the Kled app (no screenshots, downloads or AI images), as reported by users	~$7 for 1,000 photos per 1,000 photos uploaded	Feb 2026	Effective rate a consumer data buyer paid holders for existing personal photos, from user reports a side-hustle blog summarised (anecdotal; Kled's own app shows the live rate). Special tasks for specific photos pay more.	Flexswag, Kled App: sell your pics for AI training, is it worth it? Press report
Drone pilot reward for one standard Spexi mapping mission (Canada, Q1 2026), imagery sold for spatial AI	$7.50 USD (from the $10 CAD reward rate) per standard mapping mission	Jan 2026	Paid in USDC to drone pilots for imagery Spexi sells into spatial AI and machine-learning pipelines; converted by the source from CAD 10.	LayerDrone Pilot Support, Rewards FAQ The payer's own page
Alessandro Grandini Jewelry & Fashion Accessories Product Dataset, 5,000 studio JPGs on white, 3000 to 4000 px	$130 per dataset of 5,000 images	Dec 2025	Original studio photos, not AI-generated, with no people in them. The same seller's 1,000 farm-animal photos are listed at $25 ($0.025 each).	Opendatabay, Alessandro Grandini listing: Jewelry & Fashion Accessories Product Dataset (5,000 Images) A catalogue or marketplace listing
Alessandro Grandini Facial Expressions Close-Up Dataset, 2,000 high-resolution (3000 to 6000 px) face close-up photos	$64 per dataset of 2,000 images	Dec 2025	From an individual photographer who claims ownership, but model releases and consent are not mentioned.	Opendatabay, Alessandro Grandini listing: Facial Expressions Close-Up Dataset (2,000 Images) A catalogue or marketplace listing
Photos of parked motorbikes and mopeds (fuel-powered two-wheelers), existing or newly shot, for a corporate client's image-recognition training set, bought per accepted photo through Imagenavi's Mitsukaru Mall (Japan)	500ポイント/1枚 per accepted photo (500 points, 1 point = 1 yen)	Nov 2025	The highest per-photo rate on the same Imagenavi board, 25 times its home TV and display call: a subject that is hard to find in a camera roll prices far above an everyday one. Points are cashable from 500 yen; existing or new photos are accepted; the call closed on 28 Nov 2025 and the client is not named.	Mitsukaru Mall (Imagenavi), AIデータセット提供募集中案件一覧 (open AI dataset calls) The payer's own page
Polygon segmentation of recycling images	$5 per hour in USD per hour	Nov 2025	Commodity image labelling pay, the floor of the board; compare $20 to $60 for drone and maritime imagery.	OpenTrain AI, Polygon Segmentation Specialist for Recycling Images The payer's own page
JoinAI Drone-Based Rooftop Leaf Detection Image Dataset, 20,000+ annotated drone photos, 4K and 1080p	$10,500 per dataset of 20,000+ images	Oct 2025	Filed under the synthetic category although it is described as drone photography. The text quotes 'approximately €8,000', while the listed price is $10,500 (converted from GBP at $1 = £0.76).	Opendatabay, JoinAI listing: Drone-Based Rooftop Leaf Detection Image Dataset A catalogue or marketplace listing
Exterior photos of apartment buildings, public facilities and commercial facilities, existing or newly shot, to train an AI that generates architectural design proposals, bought per accepted photo through Imagenavi's Mitsukaru Mall (Japan)	70ポイント/1枚 per accepted photo (70 points, 1 point = 1 yen)	Aug 2025	Three calls for the same design-generation AI (apartment buildings, public facilities, commercial facilities) at one rate and one closing day, counted once. The use is stated as training data; existing or new photos are accepted; the client is not named.	Mitsukaru Mall (Imagenavi), AIデータセット提供募集中案件一覧 (open AI dataset calls) The payer's own page
Bulk photo datasets licensed for AI training (DatasetShop published rates)	between $0.01 and $0.25 per image per image	Jun 2025	Rate varies with resolution and exclusivity; consistent with the 2 to 16 cent bulk deals of Freepik and Adobe.	Kaptur (Paul Melcher, citing DatasetShop) Press report
Shutterstock's 2023 AI licensing revenue spread across its 771 million image archive	an average return of $0.135 per image per image in the archive	Jun 2025	Revenue per archive image across about five buyers, not a per-image price; the author puts it near $0.27 if only half the archive was delivered. What reaches contributors is a share of this.	Kaptur (Paul Melcher), The hidden economy behind AI: data licensing takes center stage Press report
Photographs and artworks licensed through Wirestock for AI training, specific-need requests (top of range)	up to $15-20 per artwork for specific needs per artwork	May 2024	Wirestock's CEO: bulk sales pay creators 'microtransactions of cents on the dollar', specific briefs up to $15 to $20 an artwork.	VentureBeat, Wirestock lets photographers and artists get paid when AI companies train on their work Press report
Photos bought by Adobe from contributors to fill gaps in its AI training set	between 6 cents and 16 cents for each photo per photo	Apr 2024	What the buyer paid individual contributors directly, with no broker in between.	PYMNTS (citing Bloomberg) Press report
Images of nudity, which need special handling (Defined.ai)	$5 to $7 per image per image	Apr 2024	Sensitive content needing special handling sells at several times the ordinary $1 to $2 image rate from the same vendor.	The Decoder (summarising Reuters) Press report
Most of Freepik's roughly 200 million image archive licensed to two large tech companies	2 to 4 cents per image per image	Apr 2024	CEO's own figure to Reuters for a bulk, non-exclusive stock archive; the low end of the image market.	The Decoder (summarising Reuters) Press report
Shutterstock image-library licences to large tech buyers	The initial deals were for $25 to $50 million per buyer deal	Apr 2024	Initial contract sizes; Reuters reported most were later expanded.	The Decoder (summarising Reuters) Press report
Images sold through a data marketplace (Defined.ai's quoted rate)	$1 to $2 an image per image	Apr 2024	A marketplace's quoted rate for curated images with metadata. Bulk stock images have licensed for a few cents each.	Reuters, via The Decoder Press report
A photo host's archive of 13 billion photos (Photobucket, in talks)	5 cents to $1 a photo per image	Apr 2024	Rates under discussion, varying by buyer and by kind of image. No closed deal was reported.	Reuters, via Australian Photography Press report
Access to Tempus's de-identified multimodal oncology patient records for drug discovery, five-year licence to Recursion	annual license fees ranging between $22.0 million and $42.0 million per year of a five-year term (up to $160.0 million in total)	Nov 2023	The buyer's own filing. Multimodal clinical, molecular and imaging records rather than images alone; Recursion paid a $22.0 million initial fee plus these annual fees, up to $160.0 million over the term.	Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Form 10-K for 2025 (SEC), note on the Tempus agreement The payer's own page
Shutterstock Contributor Fund payout (AI data-licensing share), median per image in the contributor's portfolio, May 2023 payout, survey of 58 contributors	0,0069 USD/Bild per image in the portfolio (median of 58 contributors)	May 2023	Side corrected from pay to licence: the fund passes on to holders a share of data-licence revenue Shutterstock actually received (its help page: 'a share of the entire contract value paid by customers licensing datasets', a 20% average royalty), so it is realised licence money per portfolio image, not pay for making data. Same survey: mean 0.0078 and top 0.0378 USD per image; one contributor told the CMA in March 2026 that their only Contributor Fund payment, in October 2025, was $5.35 on a 16,960-asset Shutterstock portfolio (about $0.0003 per asset).	Alltag eines Fotoproduzenten (Robert Kneschke), Analyse: Wie viel zahlt Shutterstock für KI-Trainingsdaten an Anbieter? Press report
Radiologist read of a research body CT exam (abdomen and pelvis, non-contrast), Penn CBI FY18 rate schedule	$100 per CT exam (combined) per CT exam read	Jul 2017	An academic research rate from FY18 (July 2017 to June 2018); a proxy for an expert per-study label.	University of Pennsylvania Center for Biomedical Imaging, FY18 Rate Schedule The payer's own page
Neuroradiologist read of a research CT exam (non-contrast), Penn CBI FY18 rate schedule	$55 per CT exam per CT exam read	Jul 2017	An academic research rate from FY18; chest reads were also $55.	University of Pennsylvania Center for Biomedical Imaging, FY18 Rate Schedule The payer's own page
Structural MRI segmentation and analysis of one research MRI dataset, Penn CBI Neuroimaging Core	$300/dataset per MRI dataset (one subject scan)	Jul 2017	An academic research rate from FY18; the same schedule lists DTI analysis at $250 to $350 a dataset.	University of Pennsylvania Center for Biomedical Imaging, FY18 Rate Schedule The payer's own page

New RAW photos (or paired images) taken by the contributor for a client's computer-vision training set, Ronia Raw Photo Collection, residents of United States
Price
$1.50 USD per each accepted photo
per accepted photo
When
Oct 2026
What to know
TransPerfect's DataForce pays contributors per photo that passes QA; no cap per person, but categories close when full; contributors keep ownership and the client uses the photos internally. The same $1.50 rate is posted for all eight country pages found (US, Japan, Italy, Denmark, Mexico, Turkey, South Africa, Thailand), so treat them as one programme priced globally in USD. The same $1.50 per accepted photo is posted for Japan, Italy, Denmark, Mexico, Turkey, South Africa, Thailand (read 2026-10-14); counted once here because it is one programme at one rate.
Source
DataForce Community (TransPerfect), Ronia Raw Photo Collection - United States
The payer's own page
Old photo restoration set: two provided old photos, each restored and paired with written edit instructions, for AI image-editing training data
Price
$5 per an approved set
per approved set of 2 restored images
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Restoration pays twice the per-image rate of Wirestock's general editing sets ($2.50 against $1.25), for a more skilled edit. Paid only once participation is approved and the set accepted.
Source
Wirestock, Submission Guidelines for Old Photo Restoration
The payer's own page
Project Vertex: a set of 4 progressive edits of a provided real photo (compositing, background swap, object insert or removal, colour change) with written step notes, for AI image-editing training data
Price
$5 for every accepted Image Set
per accepted set of 4 edited images
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Wirestock pays editors per accepted set, monthly; the photos are supplied, so the pay is for the editing and the instructions, the paired before-and-after data image-editing models train on. Wirestock's page answers a plain browser; an automated fetch may get a holding page.
Source
Wirestock, Project Vertex: Paid Photo Editing Work
The payer's own page
Custom image classification dataset, focused single-domain (5,000 to 20,000 images)
Price
$8K for focused single-domain datasets (5,000-20,000 images) to $100K+ for large multi-class
per project of 5,000 to 20,000 images
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Vendor FAQ range for commissioned image classification datasets. Large multi-class, fine-grained collections run $100K+.
Source
LXT, Custom Image Classification Datasets FAQ
A vendor's published price guide
Unidata Anti-Spoofing Real Videos Dataset, 87,340 files (video clips and selfies) of 43,700 people, consented crowdsourcing
Price
Starts at $15,000 / purchase
per dataset of 87,340 files (videos and selfie images)
When
Oct 2026
What to know
A floor price, shown but not averaged; per file, mixing short videos and selfie photos, no hours stated. The country count conflicts on the page (170, 179, 250).
Source
Datarade, Unidata listing: Anti-Spoofing Real Videos Dataset, 87,340 Files
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Unidata Medical Masks (face-mask detection) Dataset, 167,880 face images of 41,970 people in 4 mask states
Price
Starts at $10,000 / purchase
per dataset of 167,880 images
When
Oct 2026
What to know
A floor price, shown but not averaged; face photos, not medical imaging. No consent statement (the page says both actors and crowdsourcing).
Source
Datarade, Unidata listing: Medical Masks Dataset, 167,880 Images
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Unidata Kids & Teens Aging Dataset (ages 7 to 15), 10,214 facial images of 1,022 minors
Price
Starts at $30,000 / purchase
per dataset of 10,214 images
When
Oct 2026
What to know
A floor price, shown but not averaged; faces of minors carry the highest per-image price in the run. No consent statement, only a GDPR compliance claim.
Source
Datarade, Unidata listing: Kids & Teens Aging Dataset (Ages 7-15), 10,214 images
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Unidata Car License Plate Detection Dataset, 3,809,704 annotated road-camera images across 93 countries
Price
Starts at $30,000 / purchase
per dataset of 3,809,704 images
When
Oct 2026
What to know
A floor price, shown but not averaged. Frames taken from road and traffic-camera video, the lowest per-image figure in the run.
Source
Datarade, Unidata listing: Car License Plate Detection Dataset, 3,809,704 Images
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Unidata Open Palm Hand Images Dataset, 500,000 annotated images from 50,000 people
Price
Starts at $10,000 / purchase
per dataset of 500,000 images
When
Oct 2026
What to know
A floor price, shown but not averaged. Crowdsourced, with no consent statement, only a GDPR claim.
Source
Datarade, Unidata listing: Open Palm Hand Images Dataset, 500,000 Images
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Unidata Selfie with ID Dataset, 69,435 selfie and ID-photo images of 4,629 people from 85 countries
Price
Starts at $10,000 / purchase
per dataset of 69,435 images
When
Oct 2026
What to know
A floor price, shown but not averaged. Claims GDPR compliance and crowdsourcing but does not say the subjects consented.
Source
Datarade, Unidata listing: Selfie with ID Dataset, 69,435 images
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Unidata Synthetic Passports Dataset, 100,000 AI-generated passport images with MRZ metadata
Price
Starts at $30,000 / purchase
per dataset of 100,000 images
When
Oct 2026
What to know
A floor price, shown but not averaged. Synthetic (AI-generated) document images, not real IDs.
Source
Datarade, Unidata listing: Synthetic Passports Dataset, 100 000 Images
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Annotation of drone and maritime imagery, United States
Price
$20 to $60 per hour
per hour
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Labelling pay, not capture; part-time remote contract.
Source
OpenTrain AI, Drone and Maritime Imagery Annotation Specialist
The payer's own page
Face deduplication collection: neutral selfies, head-pose captures and historical facial photos
Price
$0.55 USD per accepted image
per accepted image
When
Oct 2026
What to know
The ad text is reposted by job boards. Working Nomads names TELUS Digital as the employer, and TELUS's own careers pages returned 403.
Source
RemoteJobs.org (repost via Jobs for Humanity), Face Deduplication Collection
The payer's own page
20K+ Infectious Dermatology Images with Prescriptions Dataset (JPG images paired with PDF prescriptions)
Price
$196,100
per dataset (20,000 image and prescription pairs)
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Dermatology photos each paired with a prescription document, so the per-image figure includes the paired record.
Source
Opendatabay, 20K+ Infectious Dermatology Images with Prescriptions Dataset listing
A catalogue or marketplace listing
187K+ X-Ray Images Dataset (DICOM, 79K+ anonymized patients), Infobay.Ai on Opendatabay
Price
$914,500
per dataset (187,300 X-ray images)
When
Oct 2026
What to know
De-identified DICOM X-rays from 79K+ patients; the seller says final pricing varies with volume, annotation and customisation.
Source
Opendatabay, 187K+ X-Ray Images Dataset listing
A catalogue or marketplace listing
193K+ X-Ray Images Dataset (JPG, 119K+ anonymized patients), Infobay.Ai on Opendatabay
Price
$975,900
per dataset (193,100 X-ray images)
When
Oct 2026
What to know
De-identified JPEG X-rays (chest, abdomen, spine, extremities) from 119K+ patients; final pricing varies with requirements.
Source
Opendatabay, 193K+ X-Ray Images Dataset (JPG) listing
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Multi-View Drone Imagery & 3D Scenes, multi-country computer vision dataset
Price
Starts at $10,000 / purchase
one-off purchase
When
Oct 2026
What to know
A floor price for drone imagery and 3D scenes for computer vision; the image count is not on the catalogue card, so no per-image figure.
Source
Datarade, Drone Imagery Datasets search page
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Facial Skin Condition Dataset, 639 images of 213 people (acne, blackheads, redness, under-eye bags)
Price
Starts at $1,000 / purchase
one-off purchase
When
Oct 2026
What to know
A floor price, shown but not averaged. Cosmetic skin-condition photos (acne, redness), dermatology-adjacent.
Source
Datarade, Unidata Facial Skin Condition Dataset product page
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Hair Loss Dataset, 6,020 labeled scalp images of 1,160 people (alopecia classification and segmentation)
Price
Starts at $2,000 / purchase
one-off purchase
When
Oct 2026
What to know
A floor price, shown but not averaged. Scalp photos for alopecia classification and segmentation.
Source
Datarade, Unidata Hair Loss Dataset product page
A catalogue or marketplace listing
H&E pathology whole slide images from the HistAI DataHub, perpetual commercial licence, 1–99 slide tier
Price
$5.00 per slide (1–99 slides)
per slide, 1–99 tier
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Self-serve tiered list price; the DataHub holds 212,000+ slides.
Source
HistAI, homepage pricing table (DataHub WSI Pricing)
A catalogue or marketplace listing
H&E pathology whole slide images from the HistAI DataHub, perpetual commercial licence, 100–999 slide tier
Price
$4.00 per slide (100–999 slides)
per slide, 100–999 tier
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Self-serve tiered list price; the DataHub holds 212,000+ slides.
Source
HistAI, homepage pricing table (DataHub WSI Pricing)
A catalogue or marketplace listing
H&E pathology whole slide images from the HistAI DataHub, perpetual commercial licence, 1000–9999 slide tier
Price
$3.00 per slide (1000–9999 slides)
per slide, 1000–9999 tier
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Self-serve tiered list price; the DataHub holds 212,000+ slides.
Source
HistAI, homepage pricing table (DataHub WSI Pricing)
A catalogue or marketplace listing
H&E pathology whole slide images from the HistAI DataHub, perpetual commercial licence, 10000+ slide tier
Price
$2.00 per slide (10000+ slides)
per slide, 10000+ tier
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Self-serve tiered list price; the DataHub holds 212,000+ slides.
Source
HistAI, homepage pricing table (DataHub WSI Pricing)
A catalogue or marketplace listing
IHC and other pathology whole slide images from the HistAI DataHub, perpetual commercial licence, 1–99 slide tier
Price
$40.00 per slide (1–99 slides)
per slide, 1–99 tier
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Stained (IHC and other) slides cost about eight to twelve times H&E at the same tier.
Source
HistAI, homepage pricing table (DataHub WSI Pricing)
A catalogue or marketplace listing
IHC and other pathology whole slide images from the HistAI DataHub, perpetual commercial licence, 100–999 slide tier
Price
$32.00 per slide (100–999 slides)
per slide, 100–999 tier
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Stained (IHC and other) slides cost about eight to twelve times H&E at the same tier.
Source
HistAI, homepage pricing table (DataHub WSI Pricing)
A catalogue or marketplace listing
IHC and other pathology whole slide images from the HistAI DataHub, perpetual commercial licence, 1000–9999 slide tier
Price
$27.00 per slide (1000–9999 slides)
per slide, 1000–9999 tier
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Stained (IHC and other) slides cost about eight to twelve times H&E at the same tier.
Source
HistAI, homepage pricing table (DataHub WSI Pricing)
A catalogue or marketplace listing
IHC and other pathology whole slide images from the HistAI DataHub, perpetual commercial licence, 10000+ slide tier
Price
$23.00 per slide (10000+ slides)
per slide, 10000+ tier
When
Oct 2026
What to know
Stained (IHC and other) slides cost about eight to twelve times H&E at the same tier.
Source
HistAI, homepage pricing table (DataHub WSI Pricing)
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Single archive high-resolution optical satellite image, SkyFi marketplace
Price
Starting at $ 15
per single archive image
When
Oct 2026
What to know
A floor price for one archive image; general commercial imagery, not sold specifically as training data.
Source
SkyFi, Pricing page
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Single newly tasked high-resolution optical satellite image, SkyFi
Price
Starting at $ 200
per single tasking image
When
Oct 2026
What to know
A floor price for one newly tasked capture to order; general commercial imagery, not sold specifically as training data.
Source
SkyFi, Pricing page
A catalogue or marketplace listing
The Cancer Imaging Archive (NCI) collections (CT, MRI, PET, pathology) under CC BY 3.0 or 4.0
Price
freely available
per collection download
When
Oct 2026
What to know
The zero-price public anchor for oncology imaging (CT, MRI, PET, pathology); a few collections are non-commercial or under NIH controlled access.
Source
TCIA, Data Usage Policies and Restrictions
The payer's own page
AKYS Pathfinder A2 Motorway 360-degree imagery, Lithuania, 2,081 11K panoramas
Price
$460
per dataset of 2,081 panoramas
When
Sep 2026
What to know
The same seller's Vilnius pack is 5x cheaper per image, which suggests small packs carry a minimum price. The size is stated only in the title.
Source
Opendatabay, AKYS.AI listing: AKYS Pathfinder: A2 Motorway 360° Imagery, 2,081 × 11K Panoramas (LT)
A catalogue or marketplace listing
AKYS Pathfinder Vilnius City 360-degree street imagery, 16,318 11K equirectangular panoramas with per-image pose, faces and plates blurred
Price
$720
per dataset of 16,318 panoramas
When
Sep 2026
What to know
Captured 2026-08-29. The licence allows commercial use and ML training but not redistribution.
Source
Opendatabay, AKYS.AI listing: AKYS Pathfinder: Vilnius City 360° Imagery, 16,318 × 11K Panoramas
A catalogue or marketplace listing
MOYU Solutions Drone Park Vehicle Congestion Dataset, 20,000 1080p drone images, 30 GB
Price
$10,500
per dataset of 20,000 images
When
Sep 2026
What to know
$10,500 for 20,000 images is the same template price as JoinAI's drone image sets.
Source
Opendatabay, MOYU SOLUTIONS PTE. LTD listing: Drone Park Vehicle Congestion Dataset
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Matthew Britton Illustration, full Lineartestpilot stock illustration portfolio, 850,000 hand-drawn images x 3 formats (2.5M files)
Price
$78,900
per dataset of 850,000 images (2.55M files)
When
Sep 2026
What to know
A creator-owned stock portfolio. The licence field shows CC-BY-NC, which conflicts with commercial AI use and needs checking.
Source
Opendatabay, Matthew Britton Illustration Ltd listing: 2.5 Million Hand Drawn Illustrations
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Medical Imaging & Radiology Dataset (CT, X-ray, MRI and other modalities with diagnostic reports, DICOM)
Price
$1,315,800
per dataset of 500K study records (category card)
When
Sep 2026
What to know
Same asking price, now read on the listing itself (it left the healthcare index page). Since 1 October 2026 Opendatabay prices in USD, converting older GBP listings at a fixed $1 = GBP 0.76. The listing says records are arranged per project scope, so the per-record figure (from the index card's 500K) is indicative.
Source
Opendatabay, Medical Imaging & Radiology Dataset listing (S Chand and Company)
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Face Deduplication collection: a set of 22 to 24 approved photos of oneself (current front-facing and head-pose shots plus older photos from the camera roll), contributors aged 45 or over
Price
up to $12 for a completed set of 22–24 approved images
per completed set of 22 to 24 approved images (ceiling, varies by location)
When
Aug 2026
What to know
Shaip pays per approved image, $12 being the top of a regional rate card that is not shown; older historical photos of the same face are part of the set, so part of what is bought is existing photos. Compare TELUS Digital's $0.55 per accepted face image already in the store.
Source
Shaip Collaborate, Face Deduplication Project
The payer's own page
Nexdata 1.51 Million Sets of single-image and multi-image fusion image editing data (before/after pairs with instructions)
Price
$1,315,800
per dataset of 1.51 million editing sets
When
Aug 2026
What to know
The per-unit figure is per editing set (source image or images, edited image, instruction), not per single image.
Source
Opendatabay, Nexdata listing: 1.51 Million Sets Image Editing Data
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Nexdata 116,048 sets of 3D hand pose gesture data (RGB hand mask, 16-bit depth, keypoints, mesh)
Price
$131,600
per dataset of 116,048 sets
When
Aug 2026
What to know
The per-unit figure is per multi-file set (RGB, depth, 3D keypoints, mesh), not per single image. Commercial licence.
Source
Opendatabay, Nexdata listing: 116048 Sets 3D Hand Pose Gesture Recognition Dataset
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Matthew Britton Illustration, 10,000 hand-drawn vector images x 3 formats (JPG, SVG, PNG) subset of the Lineartestpilot portfolio
Price
$3,950
per dataset of 10,000 images (30,000 files)
When
Aug 2026
What to know
This test batch costs about 4x the full portfolio per image, a volume discount. The licence field shows CC-BY-NC.
Source
Opendatabay, Matthew Britton Illustration Ltd listing: 30,000 JPG, SVG & PNG Hand Drawn Vector Images
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Infobay.AI 1.2M+ Infographic Image Dataset (price for initial batch of 500,000 infographic images)
Price
$487,100
per initial batch of 500,000 images
When
Jul 2026
What to know
Document-style images for OCR and VQA. The listing says the price covers a 500,000-image batch.
Source
Opendatabay, Infobay.Ai listing: 1.2M+ Infographic Image Dataset
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Infobay.AI 873K+ Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Image Dataset (icons, illustrations, logos, diagrams, UI elements)
Price
$255,400
per dataset of 873K+ SVG images
When
Jul 2026
What to know
The final price varies with requirements. The seller cites vendor agreements for provenance but does not describe creator consent.
Source
Opendatabay, Infobay.Ai listing: 873K+ Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Image Dataset
A catalogue or marketplace listing
De-identified medical imaging records and clinical reports for a foundation model (OneMedNet, initial agreement)
Price
in excess of $11.5 million
total contract value of the initial agreement
When
Jul 2026
What to know
OneMedNet contracts for a network of more than 2,300 healthcare sites; the foundation-model developer buying is not named. An initial agreement, so the figure is a floor.
Source
Pulse 2.0, OneMedNet secures $11.5+ million agreement
Press report
Photos of everyday objects at home, uploaded with object name and details, for a global AI training data project (gig workers in several countries)
Price
$0.28 per approved image
per approved image
When
Jul 2026
What to know
Firstsource's own advert as carried by a job board, posted 8 July 2026 and closed 6 September 2026; it puts a typical session at 100 to 500 images, $30 to $140.
Source
CazVid job board, Data Collector (Firstsource), Mexico City listing
The payer's own page
Aerometrex 3D city datasets and LiDAR licensed off the shelf to two AI firms (Zeromatter, Neara) for training
Price
a combined value of AUD $1.07 million for two licences
combined value of two off-the-shelf licences
When
Jun 2026
What to know
Two signed licences of existing catalogue data, one to train autonomous systems. The per-licence figure is the combined value split evenly; the split between the two was not given.
Source
FilingReader news wire, summary of Aerometrex's ASX announcement
Press report
Natural real-world photos for AI training, Zone 1 contributors (India, Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal), no logos, IDs or plates, full rights held
Price
Zone 1 ($0.20 - $0.25)
per approved image
When
Jun 2026
What to know
A client's posted rate card for its lowest-cost zone (posted about four months before reading, now closed; the same rate was reposted about a month before reading). The zone naming implies higher rates elsewhere, which the posting does not state.
Source
Freelancer.in, Global Real-World Image Collection for AI Training (Zone 1), project 40467538
The payer's own page
Bounding box image annotation
Price
$0.03–$0.20 per image
per image
When
Apr 2026
What to know
BPO vendor price guide. Its volume table falls from $0.18 at 100 images to $0.05 at 50,000; segmentation is $0.50 to $1.20+ per image.
Source
GigaBPO, Data Labeling Cost per Image: 2026 Pricing
A vendor's published price guide
Image classification labeling
Price
$0.01–0.05 per image
per image
When
Mar 2026
What to know
Price depends on number of categories and class ambiguity.
Source
WeLabelData, Data Labeling Pricing Guide 2026
A vendor's published price guide
Semantic (pixel-level) segmentation labeling
Price
$0.50–3.00 per image
per image
When
Mar 2026
What to know
Price depends on number of classes, resolution and precision required.
Source
WeLabelData, Data Labeling Pricing Guide 2026
A vendor's published price guide
Two multiyear licences of Getty Images content (a major social platform and a large AI company)
Price
approximately $65,000,000 total deal value; about $40,000,000 recognized in Q4 2025
for two deals combined
When
Mar 2026
What to know
Disclosed by management; buyers unnamed, and the social-platform deal includes display rights, so neither is a pure training-data price.
Source
Getty Images Q4 2025 earnings call (transcript, The Motley Fool)
The payer's own page
Shutterstock Data, Distribution, and Services revenue (library and metadata licensing, including to AI developers), fourth quarter of 2025, all buyers
Price
$30.7 million, down $7.1 million or 19% on Q4 2024
per quarter (all buyers)
When
Feb 2026
What to know
Aggregate revenue of the product line that holds Shutterstock's AI data licensing, not one deal; the same line grew 16% for the full year 2025.
Source
Shutterstock Q4 and full-year 2025 results, Exhibit 99.1 (SEC)
The payer's own page
Photos of televisions and displays taken inside the home, existing or newly shot, for a corporate client's image-recognition training set, bought per accepted photo through Imagenavi's Mitsukaru Mall (Japan)
Price
20ポイント/1枚
per accepted photo (20 points, 1 point = 1 yen)
When
Feb 2026
What to know
Imagenavi pays individuals in points, cashable from 500 yen, for each photo a corporate client accepts; its creator page invites people to pick a matching photo they already have or shoot a new one, so this is a buyer's per-photo offer to holders. The call closed on 12 Feb 2026, the client is not named, and new contributor sign-ups closed on 3 Sep 2026.
Source
Mitsukaru Mall (Imagenavi), AIデータセット提供募集中案件一覧 (open AI dataset calls)
The payer's own page
Smartphone photo collection for an AI training image dataset (tripod, JPEG of 4 MB or more, minimum 250 photos)
Price
$0.30 per approved photo
per approved photo
When
Feb 2026
What to know
Recruiter's own posting: contributors take new photos to a brief and are paid only for approved photos, whatever the category; a 250-photo minimum puts one package at $75. The end client is not named.
Source
Mindy Teams, vacancy: Photography Contributor: AI Data Collection Project
The payer's own page
Existing camera-roll photos sold through the Kled app (no screenshots, downloads or AI images), as reported by users
Price
~$7 for 1,000 photos
per 1,000 photos uploaded
When
Feb 2026
What to know
Effective rate a consumer data buyer paid holders for existing personal photos, from user reports a side-hustle blog summarised (anecdotal; Kled's own app shows the live rate). Special tasks for specific photos pay more.
Source
Flexswag, Kled App: sell your pics for AI training, is it worth it?
Press report
Drone pilot reward for one standard Spexi mapping mission (Canada, Q1 2026), imagery sold for spatial AI
Price
$7.50 USD (from the $10 CAD reward rate)
per standard mapping mission
When
Jan 2026
What to know
Paid in USDC to drone pilots for imagery Spexi sells into spatial AI and machine-learning pipelines; converted by the source from CAD 10.
Source
LayerDrone Pilot Support, Rewards FAQ
The payer's own page
Alessandro Grandini Jewelry & Fashion Accessories Product Dataset, 5,000 studio JPGs on white, 3000 to 4000 px
Price
$130
per dataset of 5,000 images
When
Dec 2025
What to know
Original studio photos, not AI-generated, with no people in them. The same seller's 1,000 farm-animal photos are listed at $25 ($0.025 each).
Source
Opendatabay, Alessandro Grandini listing: Jewelry & Fashion Accessories Product Dataset (5,000 Images)
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Alessandro Grandini Facial Expressions Close-Up Dataset, 2,000 high-resolution (3000 to 6000 px) face close-up photos
Price
$64
per dataset of 2,000 images
When
Dec 2025
What to know
From an individual photographer who claims ownership, but model releases and consent are not mentioned.
Source
Opendatabay, Alessandro Grandini listing: Facial Expressions Close-Up Dataset (2,000 Images)
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Photos of parked motorbikes and mopeds (fuel-powered two-wheelers), existing or newly shot, for a corporate client's image-recognition training set, bought per accepted photo through Imagenavi's Mitsukaru Mall (Japan)
Price
500ポイント/1枚
per accepted photo (500 points, 1 point = 1 yen)
When
Nov 2025
What to know
The highest per-photo rate on the same Imagenavi board, 25 times its home TV and display call: a subject that is hard to find in a camera roll prices far above an everyday one. Points are cashable from 500 yen; existing or new photos are accepted; the call closed on 28 Nov 2025 and the client is not named.
Source
Mitsukaru Mall (Imagenavi), AIデータセット提供募集中案件一覧 (open AI dataset calls)
The payer's own page
Polygon segmentation of recycling images
Price
$5 per hour in USD
per hour
When
Nov 2025
What to know
Commodity image labelling pay, the floor of the board; compare $20 to $60 for drone and maritime imagery.
Source
OpenTrain AI, Polygon Segmentation Specialist for Recycling Images
The payer's own page
JoinAI Drone-Based Rooftop Leaf Detection Image Dataset, 20,000+ annotated drone photos, 4K and 1080p
Price
$10,500
per dataset of 20,000+ images
When
Oct 2025
What to know
Filed under the synthetic category although it is described as drone photography. The text quotes 'approximately €8,000', while the listed price is $10,500 (converted from GBP at $1 = £0.76).
Source
Opendatabay, JoinAI listing: Drone-Based Rooftop Leaf Detection Image Dataset
A catalogue or marketplace listing
Exterior photos of apartment buildings, public facilities and commercial facilities, existing or newly shot, to train an AI that generates architectural design proposals, bought per accepted photo through Imagenavi's Mitsukaru Mall (Japan)
Price
70ポイント/1枚
per accepted photo (70 points, 1 point = 1 yen)
When
Aug 2025
What to know
Three calls for the same design-generation AI (apartment buildings, public facilities, commercial facilities) at one rate and one closing day, counted once. The use is stated as training data; existing or new photos are accepted; the client is not named.
Source
Mitsukaru Mall (Imagenavi), AIデータセット提供募集中案件一覧 (open AI dataset calls)
The payer's own page
Bulk photo datasets licensed for AI training (DatasetShop published rates)
Price
between $0.01 and $0.25 per image
per image
When
Jun 2025
What to know
Rate varies with resolution and exclusivity; consistent with the 2 to 16 cent bulk deals of Freepik and Adobe.
Source
Kaptur (Paul Melcher, citing DatasetShop)
Press report
Shutterstock's 2023 AI licensing revenue spread across its 771 million image archive
Price
an average return of $0.135 per image
per image in the archive
When
Jun 2025
What to know
Revenue per archive image across about five buyers, not a per-image price; the author puts it near $0.27 if only half the archive was delivered. What reaches contributors is a share of this.
Source
Kaptur (Paul Melcher), The hidden economy behind AI: data licensing takes center stage
Press report
Photographs and artworks licensed through Wirestock for AI training, specific-need requests (top of range)
Price
up to $15-20 per artwork for specific needs
per artwork
When
May 2024
What to know
Wirestock's CEO: bulk sales pay creators 'microtransactions of cents on the dollar', specific briefs up to $15 to $20 an artwork.
Source
VentureBeat, Wirestock lets photographers and artists get paid when AI companies train on their work
Press report
Photos bought by Adobe from contributors to fill gaps in its AI training set
Price
between 6 cents and 16 cents for each photo
per photo
When
Apr 2024
What to know
What the buyer paid individual contributors directly, with no broker in between.
Source
PYMNTS (citing Bloomberg)
Press report
Images of nudity, which need special handling (Defined.ai)
Price
$5 to $7 per image
per image
When
Apr 2024
What to know
Sensitive content needing special handling sells at several times the ordinary $1 to $2 image rate from the same vendor.
Source
The Decoder (summarising Reuters)
Press report
Most of Freepik's roughly 200 million image archive licensed to two large tech companies
Price
2 to 4 cents per image
per image
When
Apr 2024
What to know
CEO's own figure to Reuters for a bulk, non-exclusive stock archive; the low end of the image market.
Source
The Decoder (summarising Reuters)
Press report
Shutterstock image-library licences to large tech buyers
Price
The initial deals were for $25 to $50 million
per buyer deal
When
Apr 2024
What to know
Initial contract sizes; Reuters reported most were later expanded.
Source
The Decoder (summarising Reuters)
Press report
Images sold through a data marketplace (Defined.ai's quoted rate)
Price
$1 to $2 an image
per image
When
Apr 2024
What to know
A marketplace's quoted rate for curated images with metadata. Bulk stock images have licensed for a few cents each.
Source
Reuters, via The Decoder
Press report
A photo host's archive of 13 billion photos (Photobucket, in talks)
Price
5 cents to $1 a photo
per image
When
Apr 2024
What to know
Rates under discussion, varying by buyer and by kind of image. No closed deal was reported.
Source
Reuters, via Australian Photography
Press report
Access to Tempus's de-identified multimodal oncology patient records for drug discovery, five-year licence to Recursion
Price
annual license fees ranging between $22.0 million and $42.0 million
per year of a five-year term (up to $160.0 million in total)
When
Nov 2023
What to know
The buyer's own filing. Multimodal clinical, molecular and imaging records rather than images alone; Recursion paid a $22.0 million initial fee plus these annual fees, up to $160.0 million over the term.
Source
Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Form 10-K for 2025 (SEC), note on the Tempus agreement
The payer's own page
Shutterstock Contributor Fund payout (AI data-licensing share), median per image in the contributor's portfolio, May 2023 payout, survey of 58 contributors
Price
0,0069 USD/Bild
per image in the portfolio (median of 58 contributors)
When
May 2023
What to know
Side corrected from pay to licence: the fund passes on to holders a share of data-licence revenue Shutterstock actually received (its help page: 'a share of the entire contract value paid by customers licensing datasets', a 20% average royalty), so it is realised licence money per portfolio image, not pay for making data. Same survey: mean 0.0078 and top 0.0378 USD per image; one contributor told the CMA in March 2026 that their only Contributor Fund payment, in October 2025, was $5.35 on a 16,960-asset Shutterstock portfolio (about $0.0003 per asset).
Source
Alltag eines Fotoproduzenten (Robert Kneschke), Analyse: Wie viel zahlt Shutterstock für KI-Trainingsdaten an Anbieter?
Press report
Radiologist read of a research body CT exam (abdomen and pelvis, non-contrast), Penn CBI FY18 rate schedule
Price
$100 per CT exam (combined)
per CT exam read
When
Jul 2017
What to know
An academic research rate from FY18 (July 2017 to June 2018); a proxy for an expert per-study label.
Source
University of Pennsylvania Center for Biomedical Imaging, FY18 Rate Schedule
The payer's own page
Neuroradiologist read of a research CT exam (non-contrast), Penn CBI FY18 rate schedule
Price
$55 per CT exam
per CT exam read
When
Jul 2017
What to know
An academic research rate from FY18; chest reads were also $55.
Source
University of Pennsylvania Center for Biomedical Imaging, FY18 Rate Schedule
The payer's own page
Structural MRI segmentation and analysis of one research MRI dataset, Penn CBI Neuroimaging Core
Price
$300/dataset
per MRI dataset (one subject scan)
When
Jul 2017
What to know
An academic research rate from FY18; the same schedule lists DTI analysis at $250 to $350 a dataset.
Source
University of Pennsylvania Center for Biomedical Imaging, FY18 Rate Schedule
The payer's own page

What yours might fetch

A first answer or two gives a range. The full valuation asks the rest and shows where every figure comes from.

What is your data worth?

Kind of data

Images

Kind of library

$800to$10,000

On two answers, against 2 public prices. An indication, not an offer.

Full valuation

No data upload
No account
Free

Why labs pay for it

Image models were trained on scraped pictures and are being sued for it. Libraries with a clear owner, releases and good descriptions are the lawful replacement.

FallingThe first modality with a price list, and the first to cool: the largest stock agency's data revenue fell to $56.1 million in the second quarter of 2026, from $67.2 million a year earlier, and new deals favour display rights over training.

Who holds it

Photographers and agencies
Stock libraries
Brands and publishers
Archives and museums

What it looks like

A professional's full archive with captions
Product, architecture or specialist photography
Illustration and design libraries
Historical collections

Raises the price

Captions, keywords and metadata on every image
Releases for people and property
A specialist subject that stock libraries lack

Lowers it

Everyday snapshots, which are abundant
Recognisable people without releases
Images already on the open web

The rights question

You must own the copyright, and identifiable people and private property need releases for this use.

How we take it to buyers

Bulk libraries are best listed on the image marketplaces, which we name. We take on specialist libraries where competing buyers are likely.

Who buys it

Troveo

"AI labs and startups are actively paying six figures for company data exports", and Troveo pays the holder "on every sale, not just the first".

Troveo, business data page

Protege

A revenue share per deal, by the agreed partnership terms.

Protege, data providers page

Defined.ai

No rate card. It states "$600K+ average partner revenue" and "$1M+" for five or more partners.

Defined.ai, partnerships page

Sieve

Pays after delivery is checked ("Sieve Checks them, then pays"); recording is paid per hour and no rate is published.

Sieve, partners page

Wirestock

Paid per approved asset on projects; in dataset deals, by each creator's share of the pool.

Wirestock, FAQ

Kled

Publishes nothing about price.

Kled, site

Datarade

The seller sets the price. Datarade takes 30% commission, or 20% to 15% on a paid plan of $6,000 to $12,000 a year.

Datarade, provider page

FileYield

No figures. It charges sellers 8% and buyers 6% commission.

FileYield, sell data page

All 9 buyers of images, with their terms

Where images comes from

The whole supply map

6,100 hospitals
The American Hospital Association counts 6,100 hospitals in the United States, each a holder of imaging archives and clinical records.
Reaches buyers: De-identified data platforms and brokers (Segmed, Truveta, Epic Cosmos in-house); most archives not reaching AI buyers
American Hospital Association, Fast Facts on U.S. Hospitals, 2026 (data from the 2024 AHA Annual Survey), 11 Oct 2026
over 662 million; over 600,000
Getty Images has more than 662 million visual assets on its sites and distributes the content of more than 600,000 contributors and more than 360 premium partners.
Reaches buyers: Direct licence deals (data access for ML training)
Getty Images Holdings, Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2026, 30 Jun 2026
over 150 million images
Getty Images says it maintains one of the largest privately owned photographic archives in the world, with over 150 million images, separate from its creative and editorial stock.
Reaches buyers: Direct licence deals; Getty reports data access and licensing inside its Other revenue
Getty Images Holdings, Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2026, 30 Jun 2026
5,85B
LAION-5B contains 5.85 billion CLIP-filtered image-text pairs: 2.3 billion in English and 2.2 billion in more than 100 other languages.
Reaches buyers: Open download (free substitute)
LAION-5B: An open large-scale dataset for training next generation image-text models, 31 Mar 2022
95.33 TB
NCI's Imaging Data Commons release V23 holds 95.33 TB across 160,199 imaging studies from 79,889 cases.
Reaches buyers: Open download
NCI Imaging Data Commons, Data release notes (V23), Nov 2025
approximately 150 million de-identified imaging exams
Segmed's imaging platform holds approximately 150 million de-identified imaging exams across CT, MRI, X-ray, ultrasound and mammography, sourced from healthcare sites and licensed to AI developers.
Reaches buyers: Broker: de-identified licensing to AI developers, also through Verily and Bayer platforms
Segmed press release via Newswise, Segmed partners with Verily to expand access to real-world imaging data, 25 Feb 2026