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About Braintrust

Braintrust is a community-owned network targeting credentialed professionals, with a signature zero-talent-fee model (workers keep 100%). It publishes explicit per-role pay bands on its own site.

$18–$100/hr

Typical pay, live

, AITraining.jobs lists 78 open Braintrust roles; their typical pay runs $18 to $100 an hour, with a median of $25.

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Braintrust jobs by country

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USA · 33India · 22Canada · 20UK · 18Australia · 12Germany · 10Bangladesh · 7Malaysia · 7Spain · 7Colombia · 6Indonesia · 6Mexico · 6Pakistan · 5Brazil · 4Egypt · 3Ghana · 3Japan · 3Nigeria · 3South Africa · 2Kenya · 1Philippines · 1

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Is Braintrust legit?

Researched October 2026 · 31 sources

Yes. Braintrust (Freelance Labs, Inc., San Francisco, founded 2018) is a real company that pays talent by invoice through Wise or Stripe, after the client pays. Many applicants report long screening and no work, and once hired your pay waits on the client: Braintrust pays after the client pays and does not guarantee that clients pay. It pays $18–$100/hr typically (median $25/hr).

Actively hiring, pay independently measured from its live feed
Who is behind it

Adam Jackson (CEO) and Gabriel Luna-Ostaseski founded Braintrust in San Francisco in 2018; Freelance Labs, Inc. runs the site. It had raised $24 million by October 2020, and in December 2021 Coatue led a $100 million purchase of its BTRST token with Tiger Global. It names clients such as NASA, Porsche, Nestle and Goldman Sachs, and many of the jobs in its listings come from AI-data firms such as Turing and Outlier.

Getting paid

Talent invoice clients in the Braintrust app and are paid by Wise or Stripe. Its terms promise to start payment within 30 days of an invoice unless the client has not paid, and its AI-training page says gig payments go out weekly.

Worker ratings

Trustpilot 1.7/5 (20 reviews). Read October 2026.

Verified active

78 open roles on Braintrust, independently checked 18 Oct 2026.

Who can join

Global (100+ countries, 50+ languages).

Fake Braintrust recruiters

Fake clients have posted jobs and sent malware-laced code through Braintrust, and impostors pose as staff by email or social media. Real offers come only on the platform, staff never ask for your login, and the real sites are usebraintrust.com and app.usebraintrust.com (braintrust.dev is a different company).

What people praise

  • No fee for talent: Braintrust's fee terms charge the client 15% on top of the rate you agree.
  • The Better Business Bureau lists no complaints against it in three years (A+ rating, not accredited).
  • ID checks run through Persona, and Braintrust says your ID images are not shown to clients, sold, or used to train AI.

What people complain about

  • Applicants say they must finish a profile, an ID check and a recorded AI interview before any client sees their application, and that rejections come with no reason.
  • Braintrust's own help center says that, due to volume, not every application gets a response.
  • Some job seekers call Braintrust's LinkedIn job ads bait, because applying leads to a required Braintrust sign-up first (September 2023 post).
  • Reviewers report frequent marketing emails after signing up, and one said strangers contacted them on WhatsApp days after joining.

What has gone wrong

  • February 2024. Two freelancers said a fake client invited them to a Braintrust job and had them run project code that hid malware; one said about $12,600 in crypto was drained. No public statement from Braintrust was found.
  • August 2023. A Blind user reported fake 'Virtual Assistant' listings on Braintrust from someone posing as a real estate firm; one came down within two days, then more appeared. Since November 2023 Braintrust's help center says it asks some clients for a $500 refundable deposit before a first hire to keep offers legitimate.
Who it suits

Best for: Experienced professionals (Braintrust asks for 3+ years) who want vetted contract or AI-training work with established clients and can wait about 30 days for invoices to be paid. Not for: Newcomers who need fast or guaranteed pay, people in countries outside Braintrust's payout list, and anyone unwilling to share a government ID and record an AI interview before a client sees their application.

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What Braintrust pays

Measured from its open roles · as of 18 Oct 2026
$18–$100/hrTypical pay, live

Median $25/hr, from the 57 open roles that state a rate. Advertised rates run from $5/hr to $150/hr.

Measured from 57 distinct advertised rates, on this platform. 21 of the 78 open roles here state no hourly rate.

Kind of workOpen rolesTypical pay
Multilingual40$17–$40/hr
Domain Experts11$75–$145/hr
Transcription & Audio11$10–$85/hr
AI Evaluation8$18–$90/hr
Data Annotation4$20–$23/hr2 rates
Coding2$70–$90/hr2 rates
Math & STEM2$30–$150/hr2 rates

Highest-paying Braintrust roles open now

All 78 by pay

Typical pay is the 25th percentile of what roles pay (the middle of each advertised range) to the 90th-percentile advertised ceiling, the same measure the job board uses for any list of roles. See how we compile and grade every pay figure.

The work Braintrust hires for

Each links to what the work involves, who hires for it, and what it pays across the market.

AI Evaluation & Rating (RLHF)8 open hereData Annotation & Labeling4 open hereLaw, Medicine & Finance11 open hereWriting & ContentRed-Teaming & AI SafetyCoding & Software Evaluation2 open here

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How to get started on Braintrust

Researched August 2026

Create a detailed profile, apply to your first task, pass Identity Verification and a short AIR screening / AI-skills interview to earn the Approved Talent + Verified badges, then browse and accept AI training tasks that pay weekly.

Who can join

  • No AI or machine-learning background required. What Braintrust wants is genuine domain expertise in your professional field (e.g. healthcare, legal, software engineering, finance, education). The AI-training page states 'No AI background required. Your domain knowledge is the skill these companies desperately need.'
  • A detailed, organized resume/profile that showcases your experience and technical skills matching current client needs (this is scored during approval).
  • Government-issued photo ID and ability to take a selfie for Identity Verification (verification is run through Persona; images are not stored or displayed on Braintrust).
  • Strong written/verbal communication for the screening interview, which grades how clearly you communicate and tell stories about your work (the interview is conducted in English).
  • A quiet space and a working device/connection to complete the recorded video screening interview.

Step by step

  1. 1

    Create and complete your Braintrust profile

    Sign up and fill out your profile in an organized way that highlights relevant experience and expertise. Braintrust says new users can sign up in about 20 minutes. Profile quality is judged during approval, so make the resume detailed and specific.

  2. 2

    Apply to your first job/task

    The screening is triggered after you complete your profile AND apply to your first job. Once both are done you are prompted to complete Identity Verification and the screening interview.

  3. 3

    Complete Identity Verification (IDV)

    Verify you are a real person: have a government ID ready and take a quick selfie (Braintrust uses Persona). Braintrust does not store or display these images. Only Verified profiles are shown to clients.

  4. 4

    Complete the screening / AI skills interview

    Take the short recorded video interview (Braintrust describes roughly a 10-minute video answering about four questions; adaptive AIR job interviews run 15-20 minutes). You get a link by email/text. It is not a coding test: it evaluates your experience, domain knowledge, and communication. You generally get one attempt per question.

  5. 5

    Get the Approved Talent + Verified badges

    Applications are reviewed, typically within 24 hours (up to 72 hours if submitted on a Friday, weekend, or holiday). Once approved and verified, you earn the badges. Only applications from profiles with both badges are shared with clients.

  6. 6

    Browse and accept AI training tasks

    From your dashboard, browse available gig tasks, see what each pays before you start, and pick up work anytime. There are no minimum hours or schedule requirements.

Braintrust screening interview (AIR / AI skills interview)

A short video interview that Braintrust uses to grant the 'Approved Talent' badge. Braintrust is explicit that it is NOT a technical coding test: it is meant to learn about you and your past work and judge whether you fit the roles on the platform. For AI training talent specifically, the sign-up flow calls this the 'AI skills interview,' where Braintrust's AI 'evaluates your expertise and matches you to appropriate tasks.' Passing it, plus Identity Verification, earns the 'Approved Talent' and 'Verified' badges, without which your applications are not shown to clients.

Format

A short recorded video interview. For the Approved Talent screening you record answers to a handful of questions (Braintrust describes roughly a 10-minute video answering about four questions), delivered by a link sent to you by email/text. Job-specific interviews conducted by Braintrust's AIR AI interviewer run longer (about 15-20 minutes) and are adaptive, with role-specific follow-up questions. In both, you typically get one chance per question, like a live interview, but can usually resume if you lose connection. Braintrust says its AI analyzes your words, not your appearance or tone, and evaluation weighs communication/storytelling alongside role-specific/domain knowledge; recruiters and hiring managers make the final call using the scorecard.

How to prepare

  • Fully complete your profile first: a detailed, organized resume that clearly shows who you are and the expertise that matches current client needs. Braintrust reviews profile quality as part of approval.
  • Complete Identity Verification: have a government ID ready and be prepared to take a selfie (verification runs through Persona; images are not stored or displayed).
  • Treat it like a real interview: quiet, well-lit space, no interruptions, stable connection. You usually get one attempt per question, so think before answering.
  • Lead with your domain expertise, not AI experience. Braintrust states 'no AI background required'; what matters is real depth in your field (healthcare, law, engineering, finance, etc.).
  • Communicate clearly and tell concrete stories about past work: Braintrust grades communication and storytelling alongside role knowledge.

Why people get rejected

  • Thin or disorganized profile/resume that does not showcase relevant experience or technical skills matching current client needs.
  • Skills or background that do not match what Braintrust's current clients are hiring for.
  • Not being Verified (identity verification incomplete): only Approved + Verified profiles are shown to clients.
  • Weak communication in the screening interview (it grades soft skills like clear communication and storytelling).

Preparing for it? AI interviews: how they work and how to pass one →

How long it takes

Applications are typically reviewed within 24 hours, but can take up to 72 hours if you apply on a Friday, over the weekend, or on a holiday (Braintrust also frames this as hearing back on your screening within about 3 business days). Profile setup takes roughly 20 minutes and the screening video about 10 minutes, so the main wait is the review. Once approved and verified you can pick up tasks immediately, so the realistic path from sign-up to first paid task is a few days if your profile is strong and you complete verification and the interview promptly.

When you get paid

AI training tasks pay roughly $20-200/hr depending on the task, and you keep 100% of it (Braintrust charges talent no fee). You can see what a task pays before you start it, and payments are processed weekly.

Tips to get accepted

  • Make your resume/profile detailed and organized before you trigger screening: it is explicitly reviewed, and a thin profile is the top stated reason for non-approval.
  • Complete Identity Verification. Only Verified profiles are shown to clients.
  • Lead with real domain expertise, not AI keywords. Braintrust says 'no AI background required' and matches you on your professional field, so make your specialty and depth obvious.
  • For the interview, pick a quiet, well-lit space and speak clearly with concrete examples: Braintrust grades communication and storytelling alongside domain knowledge, and you usually get one shot per question.
  • Avoid applying late Friday or over a weekend/holiday if you want a fast decision: review is ~24 hours normally but up to 72 hours on non-work days.
  • If you are not approved, Braintrust recommends waiting 6 months to refine your skills, then updating your profile with your latest experience and emailing support@usebraintrust.com to rescreen.

What isn't public

  • Braintrust's own support articles (screening, approval, IDV, AIR interview) return 403 to our automated fetch tool. Every claim sourced to them here was corroborated instead via search results that quote those articles, not by directly reading the pages.
  • The talent-screening video is delivered through a one-way video tool (the screening invite arrives from users@hireflix.com), so it is a recorded video rather than a live back-and-forth chat; Braintrust nonetheless brands the screening as using its AIR interviewer, and it does not publicly spell out where the general 'Approved Talent' screening ends and the AI-training 'AI skills interview' begins.
  • Whether the screening link truly requires 'no download and no account' could not be independently confirmed and has been trimmed from this guide.
  • Braintrust does not publish a specific list of eligible countries or supported languages on the AI-training page; the AI training work itself is described as global remote.
  • The exact pass/fail scoring thresholds for the screening are not disclosed. Braintrust says it is not a technical test and grades experience fit plus communication, but the precise bar is not public.
  • There is no minimum-age, degree, or years-of-experience cutoff stated for AI training talent; individual client tasks may set their own requirements that are not centrally documented.
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Frequently asked questions

Is Braintrust legit?

Yes. Braintrust (Freelance Labs, Inc., San Francisco, founded 2018) is a real company that pays talent by invoice through Wise or Stripe, after the client pays. Many applicants report long screening and no work, and once hired your pay waits on the client: Braintrust pays after the client pays and does not guarantee that clients pay.

Is Braintrust a scam?

No. Braintrust is a real company. Fake clients have posted jobs and sent malware-laced code through Braintrust, and impostors pose as staff by email or social media. Real offers come only on the platform, staff never ask for your login, and the real sites are usebraintrust.com and app.usebraintrust.com (braintrust.dev is a different company).

Does Braintrust pay?

Yes. Established community-owned network with named enterprise and lab clients. Payment reliability generally reported as good. Payouts: Weekly; talent keeps 100% (no talent-side fee). AI training tasks pay roughly $20-200/hr depending on the task, and you keep 100% of it (Braintrust charges talent no fee). You can see what a task pays before you start it, and payments are processed weekly.

How much does Braintrust pay?

$18–$100/hr is the typical pay on Braintrust's board today, with a median of $25/hr, measured from the 57 open roles that state a rate. Its advertised rates run from $5/hr to $150/hr.

Is Braintrust worth it?

Braintrust pays $18–$100/hr typically (median $25/hr). It rewards credentialed experts who clear its assessment far more than open generalist work. Worker sentiment: Trustpilot 1.7/5 (20 reviews).

How does Braintrust pay out?

Weekly; talent keeps 100% (no talent-side fee).

Where can you work for Braintrust?

Global (100+ countries, 50+ languages).

Is the Braintrust assessment a coding or technical test?

No. Braintrust states the screening is not a technical assessment. It is a short video interview to learn about your experience and judge fit for platform roles, and it grades communication as well as domain knowledge.

How do I get accepted (Approved Talent) on Braintrust?

Complete a detailed profile, apply to your first job, then pass Identity Verification and the screening interview. Approval is more likely with a strong, organized resume, skills that match current client needs, and Verified status. Only profiles with the Approved + Verified badges are shown to clients.

Why do people get rejected, and can I reapply?

Common reasons are a thin or disorganized profile, or skills that do not match what current clients need. If you are not approved, Braintrust recommends waiting 6 months, then updating your profile with your latest experience and emailing support@usebraintrust.com to rescreen.

How long does approval take?

Applications are usually reviewed within 24 hours, but it can take up to 72 hours if you apply on a Friday, over the weekend, or on a holiday.

What do I need for Identity Verification?

A government-issued photo ID and a quick selfie (Braintrust runs this through Persona). Braintrust does not store the images or display them anywhere on the platform; verification just confirms you are a real person.

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