Microworkers is now in direct competition with Mturk. Microworker's addition of the Template Test and Verification (TTV) in 2015 provides requesters with the ability to have workers complete complex tasks on the website just as they do on Mturk. In the wake of the Mechanical Turk fee increases of 2015, workers and requesters are increasingly interested in the specifics of Microworkers and other sites like Mturk. Microworkers is open to all countries, but there are some specifics about fees and payouts that workers and requesters need to keep in mind.
Start finding out exactly what it's like to use Mturk alternatives while providing little or no information about your organization. Several sites like Mturk allow you to begin typing in a job to try out the process, and some even begin providing you with customized price information. Be sure you know where to go on each website because sometimes these pages are difficult to find.
Take your writing, transcribing, or other specialized task to Microworkers, and they'll enlist help from a group of qualified workers with special skills already proven in similar tasks. Microworkers has a new feature that competitors don't offer; the website recently announced in a blog post that Microworkers is now supplying prescreened specialized worker groups for requesters with specialized jobs. The use of these groups is an option for requesters who don't want to find and qualify workers, but there are a few limitations.
Clickworker charges a fee for posting paid tasks, but they won't tell you how much. According to the Clickworker FAQ page, fees are discussed once you make contact with the website. Other sites like Mturk charge a requester as little as 7% on top of the amount paid to the worker, or as much as 45% on top of the amount paid to the worker.
The most prolific workers on Microworkers have earned close to $10,000. Microworkers lets end-users view all workers and sort them by criteria like country, most tasks completed, and the like. Mturk doesn't have this feature. Mturk has its own special features, but the site will begin charging more than twice what Microworkers charges on July 22, 2015. Requesters with 10 tasks will pay a 40% fee to Mturk as compared to the 7.5% out-of-pocket fee at Microworkers.
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