# AI training data prices

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Publisher: AI Data For Sale (Marketing Signals Ltd)
Updated: 2026-11-10

Every published AI training data price we can verify, with its source. Reference points, not a rate card.

| Data | Price | Unit | Who | Date | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Images (most of a 200 million image archive) | $0.02 to $0.04 | per image | Freepik, licensing to two large tech companies | 2024 | [Reuters via The Star: Inside Big Tech's underground race to buy AI training data (April 2024)](https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2024/04/26/inside-big-techs-underground-race-to-buy-ai-training-data) |
| Photos | $0.05 to $1 | per photo | Photobucket, in talks with buyers | 2024 | [Reuters via The Star: Inside Big Tech's underground race to buy AI training data (April 2024)](https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2024/04/26/inside-big-techs-underground-race-to-buy-ai-training-data) |
| Videos (Photobucket) | More than $1 | per video | Photobucket | 2024 | [Reuters via The Star: Inside Big Tech's underground race to buy AI training data (April 2024)](https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2024/04/26/inside-big-techs-underground-race-to-buy-ai-training-data) |
| Images | $1 to $2 | per image | Defined.ai | 2024 | [Reuters via The Star: Inside Big Tech's underground race to buy AI training data (April 2024)](https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2024/04/26/inside-big-techs-underground-race-to-buy-ai-training-data) |
| Short-form video | $2 to $4 | per video | Defined.ai | 2024 | [Reuters via The Star: Inside Big Tech's underground race to buy AI training data (April 2024)](https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2024/04/26/inside-big-techs-underground-race-to-buy-ai-training-data) |
| Longer films | $100 to $300 | per hour | Defined.ai | 2024 | [Reuters via The Star: Inside Big Tech's underground race to buy AI training data (April 2024)](https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2024/04/26/inside-big-techs-underground-race-to-buy-ai-training-data) |
| Text | $0.001 | per word | Defined.ai | 2024 | [Reuters via The Star: Inside Big Tech's underground race to buy AI training data (April 2024)](https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2024/04/26/inside-big-techs-underground-race-to-buy-ai-training-data) |
| Unpublished creator footage | $1 to $4 | per minute | AI companies paying creators, per Bloomberg | January 2025 | [Bloomberg via The Star: YouTubers are selling their unused video footage to AI companies (January 2025)](https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2025/01/13/youtubers-are-selling-their-unused-video-footage-to-ai-companies) |
| Standard unpublished footage | $1 to $2 | per minute | Typical range reported by Bloomberg | January 2025 | [Bloomberg via The Star: YouTubers are selling their unused video footage to AI companies (January 2025)](https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2025/01/13/youtubers-are-selling-their-unused-video-footage-to-ai-companies) |
| Startup codebase | About $25,000 | flat | A crypto startup, via a wind-down platform | 2026 | [MIT Technology Review: AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train models (October 2026)](https://technologyreview.com/2026/10/13/1145755/ai-labs-buying-data-from-dead-startups-to-train-models) |
| Startup workspace data | About $15,000 (pending) | flat | The same crypto startup | 2026 | [MIT Technology Review: AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train models (October 2026)](https://technologyreview.com/2026/10/13/1145755/ai-labs-buying-data-from-dead-startups-to-train-models) |
| Spirit Airlines data (about 100 million emails, 500 million Teams chats, other records) | $10 million | flat | Alphabet, at bankruptcy auction | August 2026 | [TravelPulse: Google buys Spirit Airlines' data for $10 million (August 2026)](https://www.travelpulse.com/news/airlines-airports/google-buys-spirit-airlines-data-for-10-million) |