Compare two data programs
Published terms side by side, taken from each organization's own pages. Missing terms are marked, not guessed.
Mercor
View profileSourceX
View profile- What they do
- Licenses and packages company data for frontier AI labs.
- Licenses company records in its own name and can sublicense them onward.
- Organization type
- Buyer and intermediary
- Direct buyer
- DataDeals Score: Public Program Transparency
- 82/100
- 94.5/100
- Data types
- Internal communications, CRM and sales, Customer support, Software engineering, Documents and SOPs
- Internal communications, CRM and sales, Customer support, Finance and accounting, Software engineering, Documents and SOPs, Projects and workflows, Field and physical operations
- Systems named
- Slack, Microsoft Teams, Gmail, Outlook, Salesforce, Confluence, GitHub, Notion
- Slack, Microsoft Teams
- Who qualifies
- Legal, healthcare, finance, manufacturing, logistics and other industries; no universal employee minimum published
- Best fit 50+ full-time employees at peak and several years of records; priority US; other listed regions and English-language conditions apply
- Company size
- See who qualifies
- 50+ employees preferred, not a stated requirement
- How you are paid
- Mercor pays you by wire when the anonymized dataset is delivered, typically 2 to 4 weeks after signing. It says there are no setup fees, extraction costs or deductions.
- SourceX is the licensee and pays you directly, within 60 days of a valid invoice after closing, unless the signed agreement says otherwise. It charges no seller brokerage fee.
- Seller fees
- FAQ explicitly states no setup fees, extraction costs or deductions from payment.
- Public terms say no separate royalties or usage fees / all-in payout; no seller-side brokerage fee in stated model.
- Payment timing
- Wire on delivery of anonymized dataset to buyer, typically 2-4 weeks after signed agreement.
- Closing after written acceptance; seller invoices and is paid within 60 days of valid invoice unless signed variation.
- Advertised compensation (not an offer)
- No universal payout range on current page
- Up to $4M upper-bound marketing for largest enterprise datasets; not typical, no guaranteed offer
- Exclusivity
- License: not publicly specified
- License: Exclusive by default
- Permitted AI use
- Frontier lab receives deidentified asset; downstream permitted-use limits and sublicensing unpublished.
- SourceX may use, distribute and sublicense approved de-identified material within defined purposes.
- Privacy
- Process claims automated de-identification, logged access, encryption and no raw-lab access.
- Restricted encrypted custody, approved recipients, de-identification before use and rights review explicitly stated.
- Retention and deletion
- No specific post-processing retention, termination or deletion terms published.
- Failed deal records deleted within 30 days; fixed-term post-termination rights governed by agreement, full ongoing retention details not public.
- Last verified
- November 9, 2026
- November 9, 2026
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