--- title: Amazon Mechanical Turk Reviews meta\_title: 'Amazon Mechanical Turk Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 30 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Amazon Mechanical Turk works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.1 review\_count: 30 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-10' parent\_category: name: Staffing Services url: https://www.g2.com/categories/staffing-services --- # Amazon Mechanical Turk Reviews & Provider Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Amazon Mechanical Turk but has limited features. Are you part of the Amazon Mechanical Turk team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) operates a marketplace for work that requires human intelligence. 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[Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Verified User in Higher Education](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Higher Education") OH Verified User in Higher Education Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/17/2019 "Great program" 5/5 Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with: Amazon Mechanical Turk has helped me make so much money. As a student, I don't have much time to work and earn money, but through mTurk, I have made over $600 in a year. My university is also able to send out surveys and get a better response that can be more generalized of the population, which is helpful as we are a top notch research university. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk? I don't need to necessarily have any academic qualifications to make money. It's always accessible no matter the time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk? No one knows how to get "masters" so it's harder to get higher paying tasks. You can end up wasting lots of time for low paying tasks. Many of the tasks fill up very fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon Mechanical Turk: Make sure you offer more money to people taking your surveys because this will make people more likely to take them. Also, don't require the "masters" qualification as that limits the group of people who can take your survey. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Mechanical Turk solving and how is that benefiting you? It's easy to make money at a time that works with your own schedule. I don't mind taking surveys so it works well for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Education Management](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Education Management") OE Verified User in Education Management Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/8/2019 "Not the Best Way to Make Money" 3.5/5 Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with: There are different surveys to take on there and the pay ranges from 10 cents up to a dollar. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk? I like how some of these surveys are so easy and can take like 5 minutes and you earn 50 cents so if you really work hard you can make decent money on the side. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk? I don’t like how sometimes the HIIT will expire after you took a survey for something higher paying (like $2) and then when they ask you to go back to the page and put in the code it’s gone so you can’t get paid. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Mechanical Turk solving and how is that benefiting you? Sometimes if you don’t get paid you are given an email to contact the person responsible for the survey and you just tell them you participated but weren’t compensated. So that is helpful because they can make you a private HIIT so you can get paid. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing") OE Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/16/2019 "Time requiring jobs at low prices" 5/5 Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with: To mark elements on thousands of pictures Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk? The price per picture was very low and the results were great Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk? Having to use all the infraestructura me of Amazon instead of they providing as a part of the service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon Mechanical Turk: Instructions are really important and dividing the tasks in smaller simple ones can make people responde faster Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Mechanical Turk solving and how is that benefiting you? Allows the workers to get jobs that are not monotone and left those to people that can do them easily Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite NS Nikki S. Graduate student teaching assistant and researcher Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 2/10/2019 "Great tool for collecting data very quickly " 3/5 Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with: I am part of a research team at a large university that is constantly collecting data for research projects on employed adults. We run into the issue of not being able to use available participants in our location (such as students or the community) for our research, as they are not our target population; however, using Amazon's Mechanical Turk has allowed us to quickly gather data on the populations we study. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk? The best feature has been the ability to set specific criteria for who can participate in the listing (such as having to have complete at least 100 prior HITS, having a 95% approval rating, geographic location, age, work status, etc etc.). You have to pay extra for these screenings (per participant) which can really add up but it is necessary in order to get usable data. Data is also gathered EXTREMELY quickly on MTurk, especially if you pay participants a reasonable amount. We have collected quality information on 500 people over night. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk? It is extremely inconvenient to contact MTurk workers who have completed your HIT to participate in a followup, as you have to do so one at a time, which is not realistic if you are trying to reach 500+ people. We have found a way to do so though a statistical software however this process requires code, is a bit complicated, and is error prone. It would be extremely beneficial if there was a way to contract groups of workers directly on the website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon Mechanical Turk: Make sure you have the appropriate funds before initiating a project, as many of the useful features on MTurk require additional fees per participant. Also make sure everything you set up is running properly as soon as it goes live, as it is huge waste of time and resources to post a HIT that has a glitch and still have to pay everyone who participated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 2/13/2019 Validated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Telecommunications](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Telecommunications") OT Verified User in Telecommunications Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 5/21/2019 "Has room for growth" 3.5/5 Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with: Amazon Mechanical Turk or MTurk is a website where you do simple little tasks and you can earn money by doing so. You then can cash out by either setting up your bank card with amazon pay OR you can simply cash out with amazon giftcard. They usually take around 24 hours for the transfer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk? Honest the best thing that i like unlike some other websites you can earn cash with it is super easy to get the money on my amazon account. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk? The rejections. Sometimes you get rejection happy requester and they can reject your hit and then when that happens you did the work and your not paid. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Mechanical Turk solving and how is that benefiting you? Just earning cash its great for my pocket Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Luzmary C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Luzmary C.") LC Luzmary C. Executive Assistant To Chief Executive Officer Marketing and Advertising Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/2/2018 " Amazon Mechanical Turk Review By Luzmary" 5/5 Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with: Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) has helped applicants solve many data processing, analysis and content moderation challenges. This is possible thanks to the contributions of Workers from all over the world who have been driving the MTurk market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk? I can Work as much or as little as I want. Amazon Mechanical Turk has a variety of tasks, and good third-party support forums Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk? I see that there are many predatory and low-income applicants, in slow times of the year, and Amazon provides virtually no support, no benefits I think that Mechanical Turk offers to work at your own convenience, but also at your own risk. The payment offered for the time invested is not enough, but if you have nothing else to do with that time, you may receive a payment for it. The possibility of having your funds deposited into your bank account or as a credit on Amazon is a nice advantage, but perhaps the only one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon Mechanical Turk: I can recommend that you try it for yourself, since it has work for everyone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite JP jackelyn p. Assistant Manager Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/17/2019 "My Experience." 5/5 Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with: Mechanical Turk can bemused to gather data, information, make surveys etc. I love this because I can conduct a research without having to go out. this system gives you the ability to purchase hits so that the workers can get paid. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk? I love the ease and the fact that I can multitask in my business while getting all the important tasks done in the business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk? it can sometimes take a few to get response, but other than that it is absolutely great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon Mechanical Turk: I recommend this software because it will put you at ease knowing that you will get honest feedback because the workers are being compensated. it is so easy to build and you can work with whatever amount you can to conduct the research. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Education Management](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Education Management") OE Verified User in Education Management Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/5/2019 "Hard work for low payout" 2.5/5 Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with: I took on several mechanical turk projects (selected from a list) that were related to transcription, surveys, and data entry. The reward for the completed project was usually cents on the dollar and ultimately I didn't find it a worthwhile platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk? It is easy to navigate the queue and you have complete choice over what to select from the list. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk? The rewards are way too low. Requesters on the platform are looking for projects to be completed for literal change. Also, the requester can reject your work and ultimately not pay you. I worked for weeks and only made 9.00 dollars. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Amazon Mechanical Turk solving and how is that benefiting you? I was attempting to provide a service to requesters via Amazon Mechanical Turk but ultimately the time investment was not worth it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Research](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Research") OR Verified User in Research Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/18/2018 "The overall experience using Amazon Mechanical Turk has been good. " 5/5 Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with: I used Amazon Mechanical Turk to get people to fill a survey about my research. For this task, I needed people from the elderly community (Preferably older than 60 years) to fill out a survey. Using this website allowed me to just send out the survey, without worrying about selecting the people or talking to people on the street, saving me a lot of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk? The best thing about Amazon Mechanical Turk is that you can actually filter based on the users age and gender, which allows for targeting certain population for your surveys. This great feature allowed me to send the survey only to the elderly community, which is the population of interest in my research. In addition, you can select the amount of money that you want to pay to the people that actually fill the surveys, which is really good since you are not force into paying any set amount. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk? The only thing that I dislike is that there are not many people using the service. However, I understand that since this service is still in beta, the number of users should only be expected to increase in the foreseeable future. I thing that if there is something that can be improved, is to send notification to the people that have not filled the survey, so they get a second chance of doing it, and the response rate increases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Amazon Mechanical Turk: I fully recommend it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Retail](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Retail") OR Verified User in Retail Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/2/2019 "Easy to use" 5/5 Describe the project or task Amazon Mechanical Turk helped with: Amazon Mechanical Turk is very easy to use and doesn't take long to learn to use. You can also reach tons of people if you need some data quick and if you are a worker, you can find tons of microjobs to earn a few extra bucks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you like best about Amazon Mechanical Turk? I think I like the ease of use and the layout of Amazon Mechanical Turk. I also like that there are so many users and you can get results pretty quick. It is very user friendly for both the workers and the requestors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Amazon Mechanical Turk? The only thing I can say that I dislike is the quality may not always be up to par. Some workers do not actually participate in some of the activities and will just rush through and not answer thoughtfully. From a worker's view, you may not get compensated fairly for the time you spend on certain hits. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Amazon Mechanical Turk? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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