What decides what your data is worth
There’s no list price for company data. Four things set the range, and you see the estimate before you share a single file.
The four drivers
- Data typeComplete threads and tickets, with the back-and-forth and the outcome, are worth more than isolated records.
- VolumeHow many tickets, threads, documents or transactions are in scope.
- Years of historyLonger histories show how work changes over time, which labs value.
- Lab demandWhat labs are asking for right now. The same dataset can be worth more when a lab has an open request for it.
How the quick estimate works
The calculator on the homepage gives an indicative range from four inputs: employees, years of history, the kinds of data you could include, and your industry. It isn’t an offer, and it isn’t what we’ve paid anyone. It’s a reading of what the market is publishing.
The curve underneath it is simple. Value grows with the amount of history (employees multiplied by years), but not in a straight line: twice the data is worth less than twice the money, because labs pay the most for the first examples of a kind of work and less for the hundred-thousandth. Complete threads and tickets add the most; code and documents add less on their own. Industries with less data on the open market, like field services, logistics and healthcare operations, get a small premium. Software companies get a small discount, because labs already have plenty of software data.
We set the curve so that its output sits inside the ranges published by other buyers and brokers in October 2026, and we’ll re-check it as the market moves:
- EstimatorsNyne’s calculator shows about $13,000–$38,000 for 20 people with 3 years and about $49,000–$114,000 for 100 people with 10 years. Grepped’s shows about $29,000–$41,500 for 25 people founded in 2016. micro1’s default estimate is about $50,000–$93,000. Handshake AI’s runs much higher, about $383,000–$897,000 for 100 people and 10 years.
- Reported dealsSimpleClosure reports $10,000–$100,000 per company across more than 150 wind-down datasets. Troveo lists $5,000 as a baseline for a single graded code repository, and Turing reports $10,000–$100,000+ for repositories. Nyne’s smallest closed deal has been reported at $20,000; micro1 and Handshake publish tiers from $100,000 up.
- At scaleThe Spirit Airlines archive, about 100 million emails and 500 million Teams messages, drew bids from $5 million to $12.5 million in its bankruptcy sale.
- What raises a real offerTickets linked to the commits and threads that resolved them, uncommon industries and tools, a clean rights file, and more systems in scope. Epoch AI reports exclusive licenses selling for roughly four to five times the non-exclusive price.
Below about 20 employees, no public estimator exists; the same curve is extended downward with a floor of $5,000, in line with the smallest reported single-dataset deals.
How you pay, and get paid
Nothing up front. We take a commission only when a sale closes, and our target is to pay you within 7 days of closing.
You get an estimated range before anything is shared. When a dataset is prepared, you approve the final price along with the buyer and the terms, before the listing goes live.
What does it cost to list?
Nothing up front. SellMyData takes a commission only when a sale closes.
Is there a price list?
No. What a dataset is worth depends on what labs are asking for at the time, so we give you an estimated range for your data instead of a fixed menu.
When do I see the price?
You get an estimated range before you share any data, and you approve the final price before the listing goes live.
When do I get paid?
Our target is payment within 7 days of a sale closing.