Video Buyers for AI Training: Published Terms Compared

Video buyers for AI training, compared

Last verified 7 November 2026. Order: most published terms first.

Four companies publish terms a footage owner can compare: Labelbox Prism, Kled AI, Defined.ai and AWS Data Exchange. Only Prism publishes a price range and an exclusivity rule; none publishes a per-minute rate or a minimum number of hours, so every real price comes from a conversation with the buyer.

How do the published terms compare?

Published terms as read on each company's own pages, 7 November 2026.
Company	Pay basis	Exclusivity	Formats taken	Minimum hours	Rights cleared by	Also worth knowing
Labelbox Prism	A license fee paid up front when you sign, then a share of revenue from later use. Dataset prices quoted from about $50K for small, targeted sets to $1M or more for big enterprise deals	Exclusive as the starting point; scope and sensitivity can change that	Names consented likeness and voice, and robotics telemetry from the real world, in its list of wanted data	Not published	You keep control of the data and its rights. People shown or heard need consent that is explicit and time-stamped	Prism describes scoping as free and non-binding, does the ingestion and personal-detail scrubbing itself, and claims under 21 days between a first call and the first wire.
Kled AI Kled app (pays for uploads)	Per upload; no rates given	Not published	Videos, images and documents, and assigned tasks such as short clips of activities	None: open to anyone who signs up	Not published	Its 2025 post lists Cash App, Venmo, PayPal and Solana as payout methods, with money arriving in 1 to 7 days.
Defined.ai Partnerships (supplier program)	Not published	Not published	Video appears in its own sales catalog; what it takes from suppliers is not spelled out	Not published	Promises to protect your copyright while you earn from the data; how the license works is not described	Defined.ai states that only 30% of partners make it onto its marketplace, and that sending its form means agreeing to its supplier terms, NDA included.
AWS Data Exchange Data provider listings	Your own price, less a listing fee: 3% on a public offer; on private offers, 3% below $1M of contract value, 2% from $1M up to $10M, and 1.5% from $10M	Not published	Not stated on the pages read	Not published	Not published	Sellers are paid each month, once AWS has collected the subscriber's money, and need an AWS Marketplace seller account first.

Disclosure: we can earn a fee from some of the companies above if a license follows our introduction. Rows run from most to least published detail; a fee would not move a row or alter a word.

This comparison is independent: none of the companies listed owns, sponsors, endorses or is affiliated with Sell Video Data to AI. Nor do we test or audit them: every cell reflects what the company itself publishes.

What each company says, in brief

Labelbox (Prism)

Licensing marketplace. Prism describes scoping as free and non-binding, does the ingestion and personal-detail scrubbing itself, and claims under 21 days between a first call and the first wire. Source: Labelbox Prism, prism.labelbox.com (the company's own site, opened 7 November 2026).

Kled AI (Kled app (pays for uploads))

Data marketplace (app for individuals). Its 2025 post lists Cash App, Venmo, PayPal and Solana as payout methods, with money arriving in 1 to 7 days. Source: Kled AI, its 2025 blog post announcing Kled V2 (the company's own site, opened 7 November 2026); possibly out of date.

Defined.ai (Partnerships (supplier program))

Data marketplace. Defined.ai states that only 30% of partners make it onto its marketplace, and that sending its form means agreeing to its supplier terms, NDA included. Source: Defined.ai, defined.ai/partnerships (the company's own site, opened 7 November 2026).

AWS Data Exchange (Data provider listings)

Data marketplace. Sellers are paid each month, once AWS has collected the subscriber's money, and need an AWS Marketplace seller account first. Source: AWS Data Exchange, provider financials documentation, plus the AWS Marketplace listing fee documentation (the company's own documentation, opened 7 November 2026).

Named, but not described

Troveo, which licenses video, but whose own website would not open during our November check, so its terms are left off.
Versos AI, a platform for licensing video libraries that publishes no seller terms we could find on its own pages.

Labs that buy footage directly, such as those named by Bloomberg, do not publish seller terms, so they are not in the table.

Which buyer fits which library?

A large, cleared archive fits the dataset-sized ranges Labelbox Prism publishes, if an exclusive license is acceptable.
A creator with a few hours of clips is closer to Kled AI's upload model, where anyone can sign up.
A company that wants to set its own price can list on AWS Data Exchange and pay the published listing fee.
Footage with people in it needs consent records whichever route you take; Prism states its rule outright.

Before any of these, check the rights: see clearing rights in footage.

Questions

Which companies buy video footage for AI training?

AI developers building video models, and the marketplaces that license to them. Bloomberg named OpenAI, Google and Moonvalley as buyers of creator footage in January 2025. The companies in our table are the ones that publish terms for sellers on pages we could read.

Why do so many cells say "Not published"?

Because the companies do not publish those terms. We only print what a company states on its own pages. Where a page could not be read, we print nothing rather than repeat what other sites say.

Is a marketplace better than selling direct?

It depends on the library. A marketplace may take a fee or a share, but handles the buyer relationship; AWS Data Exchange, for example, publishes listing fees of 1.5% to 3% depending on the offer. Direct deals with labs are rarely published at all.

What does exclusive by default mean?

That the starting position in the contract is that you license the footage to that buyer alone, for the scope agreed. Labelbox Prism says this of its licenses, tailored to scope and sensitivity. Ask what the exclusivity covers (all uses, or only AI training) and for how long.

Do any of these companies publish a minimum number of hours?

None of the pages we read states a minimum. Kled AI accepts individual uploads from anyone who signs up, while Labelbox Prism prices smaller targeted datasets from around $50K.