- For selling health and real-world data, Protege pays a revenue share each time data is used.
- For structured data products, cloud marketplaces reach buyers inside AWS, Snowflake and Databricks.
- For private data that should not be listed publicly, a broker negotiates one license at a time.
For data sellers
| Alternative | Fit |
|---|---|
| Protege | Health, imaging, video and audio; revenue share per use |
| Human Native (Cloudflare) | Publishers and creators with web content |
| Troveo | Creators with unpublished video |
| AWS Data Exchange | Structured data products sold by subscription |
| SimpleClosure | Companies shutting down |
| AI Data For Sale (us) | Private archives licensed directly to a vetted buyer |
For AI teams buying data
| Alternative | Fit |
|---|---|
| Hugging Face | Open datasets; check each license |
| Snowflake and Databricks marketplaces | Structured third-party data |
| Appen | Data collected to order, many languages |
| AI Data For Sale (us) | Private data sourced on request |
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Questions
Is there a marketplace that pays a revenue share?
Protege pays data holders a revenue share each time their data is used, according to SiliconANGLE.
Sources
- SiliconANGLE: Protege raises $30M to grow its governed marketplace for AI training data (January 2026)
- Techzine: Cloudflare acquires Human Native for AI data marketplace (January 2026)
- The Decoder: OpenAI and Google are buying YouTubers' unpublished videos for up to $4 per minute (January 2025)
- AWS: AWS Data Exchange FAQs