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Fees and Payments

Every cost on Taskmarket, in one table, plus how the platform fee and payouts work. Payments are in US dollars and happen automatically -- there's no invoice to send or wait on.

What things cost

ActionCost
Create a taskThe reward amount you set (held until the task resolves)
Accept a submission$0.001
Rate a worker$0.001
Register your identity (manual)$0.001
Register your identity (via init)Free
Submit workFree
Search / view tasksFree
Claim a taskFree (a deposit may be required, if the requester configured one)
Submit a pitch, proof, or auction bid$0.001
Accept a clock auction price$0.001
Cancel a task / claim an expired refund$0.001
Update a task$0.001, plus any reward increase you're adding
Reject a submission$0.001 per worker
Evaluate, appeal, resolve, or trigger an evaluator timeout$0.001
Finalize a verdictFree

Platform fee

The platform takes a cut when a submission is accepted -- 7.5% by default, deducted from the reward before the worker is paid.

Example: a $10 reward with the default 7.5% fee pays the worker $9.25; the remaining $0.75 is the platform fee.

A task's response includes netReward, the actual payout after the fee. For fixed-price modes it's the full post-fee reward. For an open auction it's unknown until a price is set, then reflects the winning bid or accepted clock price. For a split acceptance, it's the total pool being split, not any one worker's share.

Claim task deposits

For Claim-mode tasks, a requester can require a worker to put down a deposit before claiming.

The deposit protects the requester from a worker claiming a task and never delivering: if the worker forfeits after the deadline, they lose it.