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Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) operates a marketplace for work that requires human intelligence. The MTurk web service enables companies to programmatically access this marketplace and a diverse, on-demand workforce

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Camilo D'Amato (SENIOR INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS CONSULTANT - MANAGEMENT - MARKETING - STRATEGY - ENTREPRENEURSHIP - FINANCE - PROJECTS. Over 30 years of cross-industry management consulting experience, in 4 continents.)

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Dynasty S.

Independent Contractor

Telecommunications

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/10/2025

"Unlimited Earning Potential and Flexible Work on Amazon Mechanical Turk"

5/5

What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk?

I like the fact that I could get the HIT payment even if I don't get the bonus of completing the HIT. I like how I can submit as much work as I want and make as mush as I want. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk?

There is nothing I dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon Mechanical Turk:

You won't qualify for the high paying HITs at first but completing surveys would help you meet qualifications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Mechanical Turk solving and how is that benefiting you?

Honestly, it is solving financial problems. I am able to pay small bills with my earnings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Research

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/31/2019

"Amazon Crowd sourcing Platform"

5/5

Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with:

Actually its crowd sourcing online distance marketplace, helping people to get benefited the use of human intelligence to perform tasks that computers are currently unable to do. Employers are able to post jobs such as Label the Data for supervise machine learning or selecting best photo, filling product descriptions, selecting specific object in picture, Scoring tweet on some criteria, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk?

The services which can be done through Amazon Mechanical Turk are very cheap, task are done very fast, Resources are arranged easily, Transparency of work, and many more Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk?

The appropriate resource matching should be focused more, there should be good algorithm for matching the task related appropriate resource search or match mechanism to facilitate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon Mechanical Turk:

Everyone must experience this, it will make your life easier Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Mechanical Turk solving and how is that benefiting you?

Labeling the data unlabeled / unsupervised for machine learning or deep learning problems, which is the great benefit and become very simple and get possible which was not possible earlier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Feyisetan Precious G.

3/12/2024

"Very easy for making extra income"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk?

The fact that I get to learn new things and very flexible timing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk?

Some of the researcher are dubious. They don't pay. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bonnie J.

Brand Representative

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/24/2023

"Wouldn't even let me start"

0.5/5

What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk?

Well I liked the amount of work that they seemed to have and the range of tasks and pay rates and types of different categories of work and the whole layout of the sites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk?

Well for a start when I signed up I had to wait and wait for some process ans then it never got back to me and told me for months that I couldn't do the work cos they weren't accepting new workers or something weird. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Don't waste your time if your from Australia LOL Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Mechanical Turk solving and how is that benefiting you?

It was giving me work online, like freelancing work similar to appen and oneforma. It's like editing spam and getting rid of it off the internet and similar things Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

K.A K.

Senior Business Development Associate

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/10/2023

"Really good side income"

4/5

What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk?

Hit and research surveys also the payout Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk?

Limited hits also they also approved a works from certain countries only Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Research

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/16/2021

"Easy platform to submit surveys and allow others to complete them."

5/5

Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with:

Mturk is a great survey platform that allows people to complete surveys that are posted onto their website. It is easy to gather research data through this way, and they often have lots of people submitting surveys for an incentive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk?

I found that it was very easy (with the help of my PI) to submit surveys onto their platform and also download available data that was submitted. It is much more professional than other survey platforms out there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk?

I do wish it was a bit easier to utilize the survey platform itself, such as when adding questions or other content onto the platform. I have found other survey platforms trickier, and less so than MTurk, but I wish they were a little more user-friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Mechanical Turk solving and how is that benefiting you?

MTurk makes it easy to submit research studies and collect data. It is with peace of mind that there will be HITs that people will have and submit their answers to each survey they find. Not only that, but it is a popular survey platform, which really helps in data collection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/20/2021

"The easiest way to get a survey in front of many eyes"

5/5

Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with:

There are many websites where users take surveys for money. Amazon pioneered the system, and Mechanical Turk has the largest, most active, and most experienced user base. I used Amazon Mechanical Turk to run surveys and collect results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk?

You will get responses very quickly. You can set qualifications to reach a specific demographic or type of user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk?

The interface is hideous and not as quickly picked up as competitors' interfaces. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Mechanical Turk solving and how is that benefiting you?

Amazon Mechanical Turk has allowed me to conduct research quickly. It has allowed me to have a quantitative dataset to use in writing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Joshua K.

Owner

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/7/2019

"Cheap, Quick Method for Project Needs"

4/5

Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with:

I was working on a project which involved the sharing of a referral code for website sign-ups. I needed ideally around 25 sign-ups; MTurk helped me achieve this. I paid each successful sign-up a sum of $0.18. The average time it took for a worker to complete the sign-up was only two minutes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk?

The most helpful thing about MTurk is that the platform allows you to screen workers before they're allowed to accept the task. For instance, any worker that wished to accept my task had to meet the following criteria: location in US, annual income less than $30,000, frugal, and at least a 95% acceptance rate from previous tasks. This allows the requester on MTurk to weed out low-quality and/or unqualified workers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk?

The only thing I disliked about MTurk was the large proportion of workers whose first language is not English. There is a strong presence of non-native English workers on the site. The quality of work for some of these workers is sub-par due to a poor understanding of English and the inability to accurately understand the task's instructions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon Mechanical Turk:

If you are looking to get the most out of MTurk, you will want to request MWS Developer Keys. These will give you the ability to customize qualifiers, make your own templates, and try your tasks out before publishing them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Mechanical Turk solving and how is that benefiting you?

MTurk has provided a way for us to get almost immediate turnaround for simple tasks. We set the amount we are willing to pay per task (called HITs) which is often extremely cheap compared to hiring an individual/group. With the customizable qualifiers, we can be sure that work performed will be relevant and high-quality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/12/2019

"Quick responses but sometimes low quality"

3.5/5

Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with:

I am a social scientist that uses MTURK primarily for data collection. Great place to get quick data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk?

Quick and efficient, simple and userfriendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk?

Sometimes the worker quality is low. Even with master qualification and limiting to those who had 99% previously approved hits, it does not usually help much in my opinion, In a study, my undergraduate students complete using 30 minutes and these Mturkers (master + highly experienced) only used 10mins+ , providing significantly shorter responses! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Mechanical Turk solving and how is that benefiting you?

it helps with data collection process, though Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/6/2019

"Experimentation made easy"

5/5

Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with:

We use Mturk to run experiments and they are a great way to get a general idea of how people respind to certain situations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk?

Easy implementation and great access to people who would otherwise not be included in studies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk?

A very specific crowd are on Mturk and sometimes it might mean the responses are not generalizeable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon Mechanical Turk:

Make sure your study designs are well thought through Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Mechanical Turk solving and how is that benefiting you?

In comparison with just running the study in university labs we get answers from people in different stages of their life. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.