How to apply to Toloka

Who can join

• Be at least 18, or the age of legal majority in both your country of citizenship and your country of residence. Toloka's terms make you an independent contractor who handles your own taxes.
• Not live in, or route pay to, a restricted place. On 11 November 2026 its eligibility page barred 17 countries and territories, among them Russia, Belarus, China (with Hong Kong and Macau), Iran and Cuba, plus six named regions of Ukraine (Crimea among them) and two of Georgia, and could not yet support 39 more places, among them Kenya, Switzerland, Taiwan and DR Congo. Hiding your location with a VPN is grounds for termination and forfeits pending pay.
• One account per person. A phone number can be linked to only one account, you cannot register a second time, and a deleted account cannot be restored.
• Your real first and last name, exactly as on your ID. A nickname, initials or a shortened name stops you withdrawing, and an account with false details cannot be restored if it is blocked.
• A payout option in your country, Payoneer or Tipalti (PayPal). Mindrift says that if neither provider supports your country, you cannot join for now.
• For expert work, real domain expertise: Toloka puts its expert network at 6,000+ active contributors in 90+ domains, over 70% of them with an advanced degree (MS or higher). All-access tasks need no expertise.
• If you registered in an EU country, your full postal address and place of birth before any withdrawal, under the EU tax rule DAC7; a tax number and VAT ID are optional.

Step by step

1. 1

   Go to Mindrift, not the old Toloka app

   Mindrift, Toloka's own platform, says the tasks and projects from Toloka and Toloka Annotators have moved there so everything is in one place, and that joining is free. Toloka's old worker page, toloka.ai/tolokers, forwards to it.

2. 2

   If you used Toloka before, sign in instead of registering

   Your account, history and earnings came with you. Sign in the same way you did before (the same method you first joined with) and do not create a new account: holding more than one can get your access suspended or permanently blocked. At first you see only the tasks you already had access to; Toloka says completing your profile and adding your CV is what opens new projects.

3. 3

   If you are new, register with a social account and your phone

   Click Register and pick the social network account you will always sign in with (Mindrift stores no passwords). Enter a phone number you can receive texts on, then your first and last name, date of birth and country, confirm you are 18 or older, and the tasks page opens.

4. 4

   Start on all-access tasks

   All-access tasks are open to every member right away and pay for each completed task: rating AI responses, categorizing content, verifying information or recording short videos. Each task shows a fixed reward before you start, and some can be done on a phone.

5. 5

   Fill in Skills and experience with your CV

   Upload your CV in the Skills and experience tab (you can upload it only once), check what it filled into experience, education, skills, certifications, languages and links, and submit. After you submit, existing entries under Experience, Education and Languages are locked; you can still add new ones.

6. 6

   Take the qualification tasks you are offered

   Tasks are assigned by your profile, qualifications, languages, country, device and past performance. Support cannot add tasks to your feed, and mistakes on similar tasks can restrict you from them, so keep your profile current, pass qualifications and check back.

7. 7

   Pick a specialized project

   The projects page lists live projects with their pay. On 11 November 2026 it showed a medicine expert project at up to $100 an hour, paid in-person research studies for native speakers in New York (up to $1,600), a $200 on-site data collection session in Los Angeles and a $70 at-home iPhone video task. Each Apply button opens an application form on Workable.

8. 8

   Pass the assessments or AI interview

   If you look like a match, you get a language assessment, a skills test, a short automated AI interview you take when it suits you, or a mix. Each project has a minimum cut-off score, and medicine, high-precision sciences and coding get a more thorough review. Answer from your own knowledge, with no AI tools.

9. 9

   Verify your identity with Persona

   When asked, you photograph the front and back of your government ID live with your camera (you cannot upload a photo, and scans or photos of a screen can fail the check) and then do a short face scan. Finish within 30 days of the invitation and within 7 days of starting; the outcome comes by email within 30 days.

10. 10

    Join the project or wait in a talent pool, then join Discord

    If you match a live, high-priority project you usually move to onboarding very quickly. If the project is confirmed but not launched, you wait in a talent pool with no tasks, and a client delay or cancellation can leave you without work for a while. Joining the project's Discord server is the last step before work begins.

11. 11

    Link a payout method early

    Under Account, then Payments, add Payoneer or Tipalti (a bank transfer or PayPal), confirming with an SMS code. Tipalti can be linked only once your balance reaches $5, and a new or changed method then waits 7 days before you can withdraw.

12. 12

    Get paid twice a month

    Payouts cover tasks that were completed and accepted: cycles run from the 1st to the 15th and from the 16th to month-end, and payments go out on the 5th and 20th (adjusted for weekends and holidays) through Payoneer or Tipalti (PayPal).

Tips to get accepted

• Know the Payoneer terms before you pick it: the minimum withdrawal is $20, Payoneer charges $1 for each payment it receives from Mindrift plus its own fees to move money to a bank, the wallet must be registered in your own name, and support can unlink a wallet only once every three months.
• Tipalti pays to a bank account or PayPal (one at a time) from $5. A PayPal payout costs 2% plus €0.60; on 11 November 2026 the bank transfer fee was still listed as to be confirmed, and Tipalti's currency conversion fee is not known in advance. The exact fee shows before you confirm.
• Withdraw regularly. The help center says your balance must not exceed $1,000 (tasks are blocked until you withdraw part of it), a withdrawal usually arrives within 15 days and at most 30, and every account goes through automatic checks of up to a week.
• Do not leave an old Toloka balance sitting: the terms let Toloka close an account inactive for 12 consecutive months, after which you cannot withdraw and any balance is treated as unclaimed.
• Avoid changing your phone number right before you need money: after a change, withdrawals pause for 7 days of verification (1 day for a newly registered account).
• Some expert projects require Island Browser, a monitored Chrome-based browser on a Windows, macOS or Linux computer with disk encryption, antivirus and a firewall on and no virtual machine. It logs the sites you open in it and blocks copying to other apps; you can decline such a project without affecting your others.
• Some projects check which country your computer is in with the Radar Verify app, which reads your precise location while it runs. If you object to the check you cannot work on that project, but your other projects are not affected.
• Tasks with sensitive content appear only if you tick 'I accept tasks with sensitive content' in your profile Settings, so turn it on only if you are willing to do them.
• Treat all-access work as small side income: Toloka's own help answers 'Can I make more than $100 a month?' by saying it is possible, depending on task complexity, your skill level and the tasks available in your region.