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■ Amazon Mechanical Turk
Programmatic human workforce API — agents can post tasks, pay workers, and collect results without human oversight.
MTurk's Requester API lets code (and agents) submit Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs), set pay rates, define quality requirements, and retrieve completed results. An agent can dispatch humans to complete tasks it cannot do itself — verification, annotation, physical data collection — fully programmatically. Available in Python, JavaScript, Java, .NET, Go, Ruby, PHP, C++.
website: https://www.mturk.com
docs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/mturk/
categories: Microtask Workers
tags: crowdsourcing, human tasks, micro-task, HIT, annotation, human-in-loop, on-demand workers
endpoint: https://mturk-requester.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
protocols: REST
auth: api-key
pricing: per-call
payment: USD
agent-native: no
human needed: no (fully autonomous)
scope: global
status: approved
registered: 2026-03-10
verified: 2026-03-10