akl01's comments

With the 100k+ downloads we always have thousands of people active on the app around the clock. We've been able to tag more than a million images in a day; and that's a fraction of our total capacity. And we've acquired these 100k downloads with zero marketing spend, so there's enough scope to get more workers pretty easily :)

Akshay here, co-founder of Playment.

So there are quite a few differences, the primary being the quality & spam problem that mTurk has. We have a number of quality assurance models which help us promise enterprise grade SLAs to our customers.

Moreover, mTurk is limited to requesters from a few countries. We don't have any such restriction.

Also, Our product enables us to stitch together multiple tasks to model complex multi-step workflows so you don't need to take the hassle of setting up multiple tasks and compiling their results. Playment just does all of that for you.

We've put up a comprehensive piece on this: https://playment.io/playment-vs-mechanical-turk