How much more one bidder offered for the same records on different de-identification terms

Mercor's first overbid for Spirit Airlines' records: $5.2M on Google's terms (a third party removes personal data), $7M if it could do that with its own tools. The same records, one term apart.

Updated 11 Oct 2026, from its newest record.

The 2 records it is computed from, largest first

Records behind this figure
Record	Amount	As stated	Dated	Source
Spirit Airlines' de-identified internal records, Mercor's first-round alternative conditioned on…	$7M	$7 million per archive (conditional auction bid)	14 Aug 2026	Chapter11Cases, Spirit Airlines deidentified…
Spirit Airlines' de-identified internal records, Mercor's first overbid on Google's terms (third-party…	$5.2M	$5.2 million per archive (auction overbid)	14 Aug 2026	Chapter11Cases, Spirit Airlines deidentified…

Spirit Airlines' de-identified internal records, Mercor's first-round alternative conditioned on…
Amount
$7M
As stated
$7 million per archive (conditional auction bid)
Dated
14 Aug 2026
Source
Chapter11Cases, Spirit Airlines deidentified…
Spirit Airlines' de-identified internal records, Mercor's first overbid on Google's terms (third-party…
Amount
$5.2M
As stated
$5.2 million per archive (auction overbid)
Dated
14 Aug 2026
Source
Chapter11Cases, Spirit Airlines deidentified…

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