Data prices · Manufacturing & packaging
What AI labs pay for manufacturing data
AI labs want production records that show how real plants run: work orders, quality checks, downtime and the fixes that followed. No public price list exists for manufacturing data, so the price depends on history, links to outcomes and how many buyers want your process.
What buyers want
Records your team already keeps
01
Production records
Work orders, batch records and changeovers over several years.
02
Quality history
Inspections, nonconformances and corrective actions, linked together.
03
Maintenance logs
Failures, repairs and what the team did to prevent the next one.
Price signals
What public deals and research show
$200-$2,000
Typical price per checkable task. A recorded fault with a known fix can be turned into one.
Epoch AI, 2026We found no public sale price for production, quality or maintenance records. Ignore per-row figures until a buyer prices your sample.
The wider market
$203M
Data licensing contracts Reddit disclosed in early 2024, with terms of two to three years.
TechCrunch$250M+
Reported value of News Corp's five-year content deal with OpenAI, including cash and credits.
Press Gazette$10k-$100k
Per-company payouts for shut-down startups' Slack messages, tickets and email archives, across nearly 100 deals.
Forbes, April 2026$200-$2,000
Typical price per reinforcement learning task, according to Epoch AI's interviews with people who build them.
Epoch AI, 2026Pricing factors
What moves the price
- Event histories
- MES and ERP audit logs turn records into episodes of real decisions, which price higher.
- Outcomes linked
- A quality problem tied to its root cause and fix is worth more than a list of defects.
- Process rarity
- Specialized processes are worth more than common ones.
- Years of history
- Longer runs of records show change over time and how outcomes played out, which a single year can't.
- Rights you can prove
- Buyers pay for data you own or are allowed to license. Data held for customers without their permission won't sell, so our calculator cuts the estimate when rights are unclear.
Our calculator
How we estimate manufacturing data
Our indicative model starts from a base value per system for about five years of history at an 11-50 person company, then applies a sector weight of 1.1x, your history, team size and rights. It is an estimate we confirm on a call, not a market price.
| System | Base value |
|---|---|
| ERP & operations | $25k |
| Process, test & fab data | $80k |
| Support tickets & chat | $15k |
Recurring
Paid again every month
Plants generate new orders, checks and repairs every day, so each monthly batch on a refresh term pays again.
How recurring revenue worksValuation
What is your data worth?
No access to your systems needed. We confirm the number on a 30-minute call.
Questions
Manufacturing data, answered
Do you need access to our plant systems?
What about customer part numbers and drawings?
How much history do we need?
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