Buyer Program Changelog: Every Dated Change to Payouts and Terms

This changelog lists every change to an AI data buyer program's payouts, referral fees or terms that is documented by two dated states from the program's own pages, newest first, as of November 10, 2026. Four changes are documented, the newest recorded on November 9, 2026 for micro1, and thirteen terms documents show sixteen stated revision dates.

The tables hold what changed, when and where each state is stated, and the program terms are one moving part of AI training data licensing. A value that is known at only one date is not a change and stays off the change table.

Every state below comes from the operator's own page, filing or forum post and carries its own date; the rules for dating and sourcing are described in how we source, date and check every figure.

What Counts as a Change in a Buyer Program's Terms

A change is a payout, fee or term that a program's own pages state differently on two known dates. The three cases below are kept apart:

• Change: the operator's pages show one value on an earlier date and another on a later date.
• Contradiction: two different values stand on the same page or program on the same day, so neither is earlier than the other.
• Single dated state: one dated value exists with no earlier or later value; it is not a change, and it is not listed as one.

Handshake shows the first contradiction case: its partnerships page states "Earn $100K to $4M+" and "up to $100,000" on the same page, both checked November 9, 2026. AfterQuery shows the single-state case: it states "up to $85k" for referrals in its launch post of October 23, 2026 and on its program page checked November 9, 2026, so nothing changed. The exact day of a change is usually unknown, so each row gives both dates and the interval between them.

Same-day contradictions sit with the AI data partnership payouts and program terms compared, and this page keeps only values that differ between dates.

Dated Changes to Payouts, Referral Fees and License Terms, Newest First

Four changes are documented, each with an earlier and a later state and the page that states each. The table is ordered by the date of the later state.

Four documented changes, as of 2026-11-10. Program pages checked 2026-11-09.

micro1 Company Data Partnerships: One Payout Range Becomes Three Tiers

micro1 stated a company payout range of USD 100K to 2M+ in its forum on June 25, 2026, and states three tiers on its program page, checked November 9, 2026. The tiers are USD 100K to 500K for qualified enterprise data partnerships, USD 500K to 3M for large-scale datasets or ongoing participation, and USD 3M+ for highly unique proprietary data, with agent trajectories at USD 1M to 2M a year.

The change day lies between the two dates and is not known. Both are micro1's own claims, not payments, and the current tiers and process are on the micro1 data buyer profile.

micro1 Company Referral Fees: From a Per-Company Cap to Flat Fees Plus 7.5 %

micro1's Company Data Partnerships Referral Program offered up to USD 25,000 per company from a USD 5,000,000 budget on June 16, 2026, and micro1 states flat fees of USD 50,000 or USD 75,000 plus 7.5 % above a threshold, checked November 9, 2026. The two states read as follows:

• Earlier state (micro1 forum post, June 16, 2026): up to USD 25,000 per company, within a USD 5,000,000 program budget.
• Later state (micro1 referral page, checked November 9, 2026): enterprise USD 50,000 for deals up to USD 700,000; defunct companies USD 75,000 for deals up to USD 1M; 7.5 % above those thresholds and for other partnerships; "No cap on payouts"; paid after the data is transferred and approved.

The Referral Program Terms are last updated October 14, 2026, which falls between the two states, but the record does not show that the fee changed on that day. Other operators' fees sit with the referral programs of AI data buyers compared.

STIM AI License: Work-by-Work Approval From June 1, 2026

STIM, the Swedish music rights society, changed how members enter its AI license: the first version from September 2025 covered only consulted and approving rightholders, and from June 1, 2026 members approve works one by one or exclude the AI rights category. STIM's news of May 31, 2026 announces the new category and the effective date.

STIM states that creators receive royalties during model training, during use of the AI service and when generated music is used, and publishes no rates. STIM is a collective licensor that licenses on behalf of rightholders and has no buyer profile on this site.

AWS Data Exchange: A Regional Listing Fee From April 1, 2025

AWS Data Exchange, a marketplace that lists data products and charges providers a listing fee, added a 1 % listing fee for buyers in South Korea from April 1, 2025, on top of the fee schedule effective January 5, 2024. That schedule sets public offers at 3 %, private offers at 3 % under USD 1M, 2 % from USD 1M to under USD 10M and 1.5 % from USD 10M, and renewals at 1.5 %, as AWS states, checked November 9, 2026.

The schedule before January 5, 2024 is not recorded, so that date is a revision row below and not a change. Listing fees differ across AI training data marketplaces.

Terms Documents Revised on a Stated Date, Earlier Text Not Recorded

Thirteen terms documents carry sixteen stated revision dates, and only micro1's Data License Master Terms show more than one known state, so the rows below mark dates to compare at the next check and are not counted as changes. The table is newest first, with month-only dates after the dated rows of that month, and the earlier text is not recorded for any row.

Sixteen dated revisions, as of 2026-11-10; each checked 2026-11-09; earlier text not recorded.

The densest run is micro1's Data License Master Terms, with four versions between September 30 and November 8, 2026, and what differs between them is not recorded here. The version dates and the clauses are covered on micro1 Data License Master Terms clause by clause.

Earlier Values This Changelog Leaves Out, and Why

An earlier value enters this changelog only when the operator's own page or filing states it with a date, so values known only from press, search snippets, caches or third-party directories are left out. Four kinds of source are excluded:

• Press reports: an earlier figure reported by a news outlet and not found in a dated operator page or forum post.
• Search snippets: a rate or range shown in a search result that is not on the live page.
• Cached pages: wording seen only in a cached copy of a page that the live page no longer carries.
• Third-party directories and reposts: a figure listed by a directory or a secondary site that the operator's own page does not state.

Where a program has a current dated state and an earlier value only from such a source, the current state is kept as a single state. Turing Project Lazarus states a revenue share with "Nothing upfront", and Pangea states that its rates "can change on 30 days' notice, never retroactively", both checked November 9, 2026; neither is a change here, because no dated earlier state from the operator is recorded.

What a Program Change Means Before a Company Signs

A published program page is a claim at one date, so the terms that bind a deal are the ones in the agreement and its version date, not the page a company read earlier. Three practices follow from the record:

• Record the version date of every document signed, because micro1's master terms exist in four dated versions within about six weeks.
• Read the stated notice period, where one exists: Opendatabay states 30 days' notice for fee changes, and Pangea states that rates change on 30 days' notice and never retroactively.
• Check what the page says about its own authority, because McCarthy's AI's terms say that only a signed agreement sets terms.

The version date belongs in evaluating an offer for your data, next to the price and the payment trigger.

The US Federal Trade Commission staff published a post on February 13, 2024 warning that companies quietly changing their terms of service, including retroactively, could be unfair or deceptive. It is the regulator's warning about retroactive changes in general, not a rule about these programs.

Not acting on a changed offer, or not selling at all, stays a valid outcome.

How Each Change Is Dated, Sourced and Re-checked

Every row carries the date of each state and the page that states it, and program pages are re-checked monthly and before a page that uses them changes. A state is dated by the operator's own date where one exists (a forum post date, a "last updated" line, an effective date) and otherwise by the day it was checked.

When a later check shows a new state for a program that has only one dated state so far, that program gains a row. A wrong date or value is fixed and listed in the corrections log.

Where Same-Day Terms, Payout Reports and Market Records Continue

This changelog is the time axis of the market section; the current terms, payout figures and market records sit on these pages.

• The AI training data market section holds size, prices, payouts and history.
• Reported payouts to data sellers sets advertised amounts against confirmed ones.
• The company data partnership programs page holds the current program terms.
• AI training data prices holds per-unit prices.
• The history of AI training data holds launch chronology and earlier market events.

Program Operators Named in This Changelog

The operators below appear in the two tables; each profile holds the current terms. See also who buys AI training data.

• AWS Data Exchange
• Grepped
• Kled
• Magma
• Marin Data
• McCarthy's AI
• Mercor data buyer profile
• Opendatabay
• Pangea.ai
• Pewter
• PIXTA AI
• TollBit
• Turing Project Lazarus

AfterQuery and STIM are named in the text without a profile.

Frequently Asked Questions

How often do AI data buyers change their program terms?

No operator publishes a change schedule; the dated record shows micro1's master terms in four versions between September 30 and November 8, 2026. Four changes to payouts, fees or license terms are documented across all operators, the newest recorded on November 9, 2026, and the other operators in the tables show one dated state each.

Did micro1 change its payout tiers?

Yes: micro1 stated USD 100K to 2M+ on June 25, 2026 and states three tiers from USD 100K to 3M+, checked November 9, 2026. Both are micro1's claims, and the day of the change is not recorded.

Does a program change apply to a deal already signed?

Most program pages do not say; Pangea states its rates never change retroactively, and McCarthy's AI's terms say only a signed agreement sets terms. Opendatabay states 30 days' notice for fee changes. What binds is the version in the AI data licensing agreements a company signs.

Is a contradiction on a buyer's page a change?

No; two different values on the same page on the same day are a contradiction, and both stay visible on the terms table. A change needs two known dates.