Remotasks is operated by Scale AI, which settles the identity question quickly, and raises a different one that matters more right now. The platform is still running, but new sign-ups are being turned away in at least some countries and redirected to a sister platform instead.
This page separates the two. Who is behind it, how payment actually works according to its own Terms, what the company does not publish, and whether you can still join at all.
Know the Rules Before You Spend the Evening
VISU publishes what it pays for and when it credits, before you start. No deposit is ever required to withdraw what you earned.
Can You Still Join Remotasks?
This is the first thing to check, and for a lot of readers it is the only thing that matters.
Opening the Remotasks sign-up page from Brazil in August 2026 returns a message rather than a form. The wording is the company's own: they are not currently accepting new contributors from that location, and they encourage you to look at opportunities on Outlier instead.
Two things follow from that, and it is worth keeping them separate. Remotasks has not shut down: the site is live, the login area is still available, and the Terms of Use were updated in October 2025. But the front door is closed to the location we tested, Brazil, and the company itself is pointing new arrivals somewhere else.
What we could not verify is how wide the block is. It was tested from one country. Remotasks advertises availability in over ninety countries and does not publish the list, so whether your location is open is something only the sign-up page can tell you.
If you land on that message, the platform being recommended is Outlier, which runs on the same corporate infrastructure. That is not a workaround; it is where the company is actively directing people.
Who Operates Remotasks
The identity question has a clean answer, which is not always the case in this category.
The Terms of Use are an agreement with Scale AI, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and its affiliates including Smart Ecosystem, Inc. The homepage carries a "Powered by Scale AI" mark. The data processing agreement names Smart Ecosystem, Inc. as the operating company. Governing law is California, with venue in San Francisco County.
So the relationship to Scale AI is not a rumour or a loose association. Scale AI is the direct counterparty to the contract you accept when you sign up, and Smart Ecosystem is the operating affiliate. That clears the gate that matters most: there is a named legal entity, subject to a jurisdiction, behind the platform.
It is worth being precise about what that does and does not establish. A verifiable operator proves who is responsible. It does not prove earnings are good, that offers will be available in your country, or that nothing will go wrong with a payout. It removes one basic identity risk: the operator is identifiable, and subject to a jurisdiction. Everything after that is a separate evaluation.
One detail says something about how current the company's own material is. Remotasks publishes a page arguing for its own legitimacy, which is a reasonable thing to do. That page is dated August 2021 and describes payment through PayPal only, while the current homepage lists PayPal or AirTM. The institutional defence has not been updated in years.
Rules Published Before You Start
What each action pays and when it credits, stated up front rather than discovered after the fact.
What the Work Actually Is
Remotasks is data annotation for artificial intelligence training. In the company's own description: labeling images, transcribing audio, and annotating data that trains AI. The data processing agreement describes the services as labeling, annotation and collection.
The flow is structured rather than open. You take courses or hands-on training, which unlocks projects, and you work on tasks from the projects you have unlocked. Training is described as free. The work itself is performed for third-party customers of Scale, not for Remotasks directly.
Whether there is a formal tier system with named levels that changes pay rates is something the company does not document publicly. The unlock mechanic is real and stated. Anything beyond that, including claims about ranked levels, is not something we could confirm.
If you are comparing this against the wider category, it sits alongside the platforms covered in getting paid to train AI, which is a genuinely different kind of work from surveys or offer walls.
How Much Does Remotasks Pay?
Here is the honest version, and it is not the version most pages give you.
Remotasks does not publish a universal hourly rate we could verify. There is no official figure for what a task pays or what an hour is worth. The homepage says earnings vary based on the quality and number of tasks completed, and that is the extent of the company's own commitment to a number.
Any specific range you see quoted elsewhere, including the figures that circulate widely for this platform, comes from individual user reports rather than from Remotasks. Those reports may well be accurate for the person who wrote them. They are not a rate card, and they are not something the company stands behind.
What is documented, from the company's own pages and Terms:
- Payment method: PayPal or AirTM
- Frequency: weekly cash-out
- Currency: US dollars or a specified currency, with exchange-rate risk carried by the worker
- Status: independent contractor, no benefits, responsible for your own taxes
- Condition: payment follows verification that the task was completed properly
The company does publish two aggregate figures, both historical: over $15 million in total earnings, and more than 240,000 taskers. They are worth reporting as they stand, and worth resisting the temptation to divide. The resulting number would be a raw ratio across everyone who ever registered, including people who completed a single task and never returned, and it would tell you nothing about what someone working regularly earns. Two totals are what the company publishes; a rate is not.
Minimum withdrawal threshold and withdrawal fees are not stated in any primary source we could access. If either matters to your decision, that is a question for support before you start rather than after.
Rates You Can Read Before You Start
What each action pays, published up front instead of discovered by doing it.
Two Clauses Worth Reading First
The Terms of a task platform are not usually read before signing up. Two clauses here change what you are agreeing to enough to be worth the paragraph.
Payment can be withheld at the company's sole determination. The Terms state that a violation, as determined by the company, can result in full or partial non-payment of amounts accrued. They also allow payment to be delayed or suspended during an investigation. This is not unusual language for the category, and it defines what happens if the company decides something was wrong with your work. It is worth knowing it is there.
Arbitration is mandatory for US residents, with a jury waiver and a class-action waiver, subject to an opt-out. There is also a mass-arbitration process that batches claims in groups of up to fifty. If a dispute ever arose, this determines how it can be pursued.
Neither clause makes the platform illegitimate. Both are the kind of thing that is easier to accept knowingly than to discover afterwards.
Verdict: Legit, and Then What?
On the identity question, Remotasks clears the bar comfortably. Scale AI is a named, jurisdiction-bound company, the contract is current as of October 2025, and the work is real work for real customers.
Where it gets complicated is everything after that. User reviews are poor: the Trustpilot rating stood at 2.3 out of 5 across 797 reviews when checked in August 2026, which is user sentiment rather than a fact about the company, but a large enough sample to be worth weighing. The company's own legitimacy page has not been updated since 2021. No pay rate is published. And sign-ups were closed for Brazil when tested on 16 August 2026, with the company redirecting people to Outlier.
That combination puts Remotasks in an unusual position: not a scam, not shut down, but not straightforwardly open either. For someone in a country where sign-ups still work, it is a legitimate platform whose earnings you will have to discover empirically because nobody publishes them. For someone who hits the location message, the practical answer is that the company has already told you where to go instead.
The general framework for evaluating any of these platforms, including the questions worth asking before you spend an evening, is here.
FAQ
Is Remotasks legit?
Yes on the identity question. The Terms of Use are an agreement with Scale AI, Inc., a Delaware corporation, with Smart Ecosystem, Inc. as the operating affiliate, governed by California law. That establishes who is responsible. It does not establish that earnings are worthwhile, which is a separate question the company does not answer publicly.
Can I still sign up for Remotasks in 2026?
It depends on your location. Opening the sign-up page from Brazil in August 2026 returns a message saying new contributors are not being accepted from that location, with a recommendation to try Outlier instead. Remotasks claims availability in over ninety countries but does not publish the list, so the sign-up page itself is the only reliable check.
How much does Remotasks pay per hour?
Remotasks does not publish an hourly rate. The company says earnings depend on the quality and number of tasks completed, and that is as specific as its own material gets. Figures quoted elsewhere come from individual user reports, not from the company. What is documented is weekly payment via PayPal or AirTM, in US dollars, with exchange-rate risk on the worker.
What is the minimum payout on Remotasks?
Not stated in any primary source we could access. Neither a minimum threshold nor a withdrawal fee appears in the Terms or on the public pages. If either matters to your decision, ask support before starting rather than after accumulating a balance.
Is Remotasks related to Scale AI?
Directly. Scale AI, Inc. is the counterparty named in the Terms of Use, the homepage carries a "Powered by Scale AI" mark, and Smart Ecosystem, Inc. is named as the operating company in the data processing agreement. This is a corporate relationship, not a branding arrangement.
Why does Remotasks send people to Outlier?
When sign-ups are closed for a location, the message on the Remotasks sign-up page recommends Outlier by name. Both run on the same corporate infrastructure. The company does not explain the reason for the restriction, only the alternative.