Can I sell my data? Yes. What it pays depends on whose data it is.
One person’s data on its own is worth little to a buyer. A company’s years of tickets, threads, documents and code are worth real money to the AI labs that need them. Here’s what each side gets, and how a sale works.
If you’re an individual
Some apps pay people for their own browsing, shopping or location data. The amounts are small, because a single person’s data is only useful to a buyer in bulk, alongside millions of others. If you want to go that route, read what the app collects and how long it keeps it before you sign up.
SellMyData doesn’t buy personal data from individuals, and we don’t buy consumer personal data from companies either. What we license is business data with the people removed. If you run a company, or work at one that might want to know what its data is worth, the rest of this page is for you.
If you run a company
Your help desk, chat, project tools, document drives and code repositories hold years of real work: how problems got solved, how decisions got made, how customers were handled. AI labs license that kind of record, with names, contacts and identifiers removed, to train models on how real businesses operate.
The value comes from scale and time. The more people who have worked in your tools, and the more years of history you have, the more there is to license. Small and mid-size companies qualify; a few people over a long history is still a real dataset.
What sells, and what stays out
- MessagesSlack, Teams and chat history: how teams coordinate and solve problems.
- TicketsSupport and service conversations with the customer’s side included.
- DocumentsProcedures, proposals, reports and the drafts behind them.
- CodeRepositories and reviews, including the discussion around changes.
- RecordsProject, dispatch and job records that show work from start to finish.
Consumer personal data, health records tied to people, payment card data, and anything your contracts don’t let you license stay out. See the rights check and what we remove.
How a sale works
- STEP 01
Value it
Answer a few questions and get an estimated range. Nothing is shared yet.
- STEP 02
Share your exports
We walk you through exporting from each tool you choose, for the date range you choose. We never write to your systems.
- STEP 03
Approve the listing
We strip names, contacts and identifiers. You review the redacted preview and the price before any lab sees it.
- STEP 04
Get paid
When a lab buys a license, you get paid. You approve every sale, and you can unlist your data whenever you choose.
The full picture, including how the estimate is calculated, is on how pricing works.
Frequently asked questions
Can I sell my personal data?
Some apps pay individuals for their own data, usually small amounts, because one person’s data on its own is of little use to a buyer. SellMyData does not buy personal data from individuals. We license de-identified business data from companies to AI labs.
Is it legal to sell my data?
For a company, usually yes, within the limits of its own customer contracts, privacy policy and employee policies, and only after the details that identify people are removed. We go through those limits with every company before anything is listed, and nothing that fails the check is sold.
How much is my data worth?
For a company it depends on how many people have worked in the tools, for how many years, what kinds of records they left behind, and the industry. The quick estimate on the homepage gives an indicative range from those inputs; the pricing page explains how it is calculated.
Who buys company data?
AI labs and the teams that train AI models. They license real records of work being done, such as support tickets, project threads, documents and code, with names and identifiers removed, to teach models how real businesses operate.
What happens to my data after I sell it?
The lab receives the de-identified dataset under the license you approved. Your raw exports are never part of a license, and they are deleted after you approve the de-identified version.
Do I have to sell everything?
No. You choose the tools and the date ranges, you review a redacted preview, and you approve every buyer and every sale. Anything you leave out stays out.