How to apply to Remotasks

Who can join

• Be at least 18, or the age of legal majority where you live. You may hold only one account, and if it is suspended or terminated you may not open another without the company's explicit permission.
• Live somewhere Remotasks still takes new contributors. It publishes no list: its home page says it is available in 90+ countries, but on 12 Nov 2026 its sign-up page, opened from the Netherlands, said it was not accepting new contributors from that location and pointed to Outlier.ai.
• Not be in a country under US export restrictions: its community guidelines name Ukraine, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria, and add that Remotasks is not available in all regions and some projects are limited by geography.
• Not be in Kenya, Nigeria or Pakistan, where Remotasks shut down entirely in March 2024. It also stopped new sign-ups in Thailand, Vietnam and Poland then, while Scale said existing contractors in Poland, India, Thailand and Vietnam kept full access.
• On generative AI projects (the ones its working location policy covers), you may have to verify your identity and location with a government-issued ID. That becomes your Primary Country, you may work only from there, and working from anywhere else can get your account paused pending verification.
• Give your name, address, country of residence, mobile phone number and valid payment details for an account in your own name (and in some cases a social security number), and prove your identity if asked.
• A computer, not a phone: Remotasks' 2021 system requirements post says it does not support tasking on mobile devices, asks for at least 4 GB of memory for 2D tasks and 8 GB for 3D tasks, and names Google Chrome for Mac and Linux.

Step by step

1. 1

   Check whether Remotasks takes sign-ups from where you live

   Open remotasks.com/signup from your own country, without a VPN. Where Remotasks is not taking new contributors, the page shows no sign-up buttons, only: 'Unfortunately, we aren't currently accepting new contributors from your location on Remotasks,' with a link to train generative AI on Outlier.ai. We saw this from the Netherlands on 12 Nov 2026.

2. 2

   If it sends you to Outlier, check Outlier's own country list

   Outlier is Scale AI's other contributor platform and has its own sign-up. Its Flexible Working Guidelines (effective 15 July 2026) list 117 places you may work from: the Netherlands, the Philippines, India, Brazil and the US are on it; Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan and Ukraine are not.

3. 3

   Accept the terms and the confidentiality agreement

   Where sign-up is open, the page asks you to scroll to the end of the Terms of Use and tick that you agree, including the arbitration agreement, and to tick a confidentiality agreement: you will be trusted with confidential information and may use it only to do Remotasks tasks.

4. 4

   Create your account

   Continue with Google. The page also shows a Facebook button, but its own text says Facebook login is unavailable at this time. An email and password form appears only when you arrive through a link made for a specific program.

5. 5

   Complete your account details

   Registration asks for your name, address, country of residence, mobile phone number and valid payment information, and in some cases a social security number. Payment details must be for an account in your own name.

6. 6

   Take the training to unlock projects

   Remotasks teaches tasks through quick online courses or free hands-on training, and you then work on tasks from the projects you have unlocked. Harder tasks that pay more need further training.

7. 7

   Pass each project's tests and follow its rules

   Complete every certification and qualification test a project asks for, work only on tasks whose scope of work or materials you have completed, and do the tasks yourself without other people, bots or scripts. Breaking the guidelines can remove you from tasks or disable your account.

8. 8

   Verify your location if a project asks

   For generative AI projects you may be asked for a government-issued ID to prove where you are. That country becomes your Primary Country; if you move, ask support to update it with an ID issued by the new country.

9. 9

   Set up PayPal or Airtm

   For Airtm, open the menu under your name, choose Account, then Payment, select Airtm and enter the email of your Airtm account. Airtm says your Remotasks balance then arrives in USDC every week between Tuesday and Thursday.

Tips to get accepted

• Know what the terms allow on pay: Scale may delay payment during an investigation into whether you followed the terms, a violation can mean some or all of your earnings go unpaid, and exchange-rate losses between your currency and the US dollar are yours.
• With Airtm, you withdraw to your bank through another Airtm user: you pick a method and amount, Airtm matches you with a user who sends the transfer, and you confirm it once it reaches your bank.
• Expect gaps between projects. In October and November 2026, Trustpilot reviewers in the Philippines said they had had no project for months and that robotics was 'pretty much the only thing being pushed'.
• Never buy or rent an account. AlgorithmWatch (May 2025) found a 'Remotask Accounts' WhatsApp group with no sign of an official tie to Remotasks, and people selling 'verified Outlier accounts' that were 'ready to task'.
• Remotasks' contact in its Terms of Use is support@remotasks.com; Outlier and Scale's Human Frontier Collective have their own support addresses.