Data prices · Financial services
What AI labs pay for finance data
AI labs pay for the models, memos and decisions financial firms produce, such as credit decisions with their outcomes. No public prices exist for licensing this kind of data to AI labs, and financial privacy rules govern anything tied to customers.
What buyers want
Records your team already keeps
01
Models and memos
Financial models, investment memos and the assumptions behind them.
02
Decisions with outcomes
Credit, investment or pricing decisions and how they turned out.
03
Procedures
How your team runs reviews, approvals and controls.
Price signals
What public deals and research show
$85/hr
Average pay to experts, including bankers, that Mercor supplies to AI labs (October 2025).
Contrary Research$200-$2,000
Typical price per checkable task. A decision with a known result can become one.
Epoch AI, 2026We found no public price for a financial firm licensing its work product to AI labs. Market data vendors sell their own products, which are a different business.
The wider market
$203M
Data licensing contracts Reddit disclosed in early 2024, with terms of two to three years.
TechCrunch$250M+
Reported value of News Corp's five-year content deal with OpenAI, including cash and credits.
Press Gazette$10k-$100k
Per-company payouts for shut-down startups' Slack messages, tickets and email archives, across nearly 100 deals.
Forbes, April 2026$200-$2,000
Typical price per reinforcement learning task, according to Epoch AI's interviews with people who build them.
Epoch AI, 2026Pricing factors
What moves the price
- Customer data kept out
- Customer-level financial information falls under privacy rules, so firm-level work product is the easier sale.
- Outcomes
- Decisions linked to results make the data checkable.
- Specialism
- Niche markets and asset classes with little public material are worth more.
- Years of history
- Longer runs of records show change over time and how outcomes played out, which a single year can't.
- Rights you can prove
- Buyers pay for data you own or are allowed to license. Data held for customers without their permission won't sell, so our calculator cuts the estimate when rights are unclear.
Our calculator
How we estimate finance data
Our indicative model starts from a base value per system for about five years of history at an 11-50 person company, then applies a sector weight of 1.3x, your history, team size and rights. It is an estimate we confirm on a call, not a market price.
| System | Base value |
|---|---|
| Docs, wikis & SOPs | $10k |
| CRM (Salesforce, HubSpot) | $15k |
| Accounting (Xero, QuickBooks) | $20k |
Recurring
Paid again every month
New deals, memos and decisions pile up every month. On a refresh term each month's batch pays again.
How recurring revenue worksRules that apply
US financial institutions must give notice and an opt-out before sharing customers' nonpublic personal information with unaffiliated third parties, with some exceptions. We leave customer-level data out by default.
Source: 16 CFR Part 313Valuation
What is your data worth?
No access to your systems needed. We confirm the number on a 30-minute call.
Questions
Finance data, answered
Can we include customer accounts?
Is our model IP safe?
What if we're regulated by the SEC?
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