Claru Review: AI Video Capture & Annotation Jobs

Claru is run by Reka AI, which builds its own multimodal AI models. Through Claru, it supplies purpose-built human data — text, vision, video and robotics — to frontier AI labs, and recruits contributors to create and label that data.

Each role has its own page describing the task, requirements and pay. You sign up on Claru's app, get screened for the project, and work remotely on your own schedule within the project's requirements.

Video-capture roles ask you to record first-person video of real activities — household chores, garage and DIY projects, cooking, gardening, office, retail, restaurant, warehouse and hospitality settings — usually in 30–90 minute sessions. The footage trains AI systems that need to understand everyday tasks.

Gaming roles involve capturing gameplay, annotating game footage, testing virtual environments and giving feedback on gaming AI. Expert roles are more specialised: red-teaming LLMs for safety failures, writing and checking math reasoning, evaluating legal or physics answers, reviewing AI-generated code, and labelling LiDAR point clouds or medical images.

Claru publishes a flat rate on every role. Video-capture work is geo-tiered — about $15 an hour in the US, with lower rates in Canada, Latin America and Asia (as low as around $5 in some regions). Gaming roles range from roughly $15 to $50 an hour depending on the task.

Expert annotation roles pay the most: around $35–$55 an hour for roles such as math RLHF and code review, and $55–$100 an hour for red-teaming, legal and physics evaluation, medical image segmentation and 3D labelling.

Sign-up is free through Claru's app. Capture roles mainly require a suitable phone or camera, access to the right kind of environment, and willingness to follow recording guidelines. Expert roles require relevant background — security research for red-teaming, legal training for legal evaluation, strong math or physics for reasoning roles.

Read each role page carefully: capture variants are open to specific regions, and requirements (equipment, session length, privacy rules) differ between projects.

The main drawback is the regional pay gap: the same capture task pays several times more in the US than in some other regions. Expert roles pay well but are few in number and can fill quickly.

Video capture also involves recording your own surroundings, so check the privacy guidelines for each project and make sure you're comfortable with what's being filmed.

Capture roles suit people who regularly cook, garden, do DIY or work in the relevant settings and want simple, flexible paid tasks. Gaming roles suit avid gamers. Expert roles suit security researchers, lawyers, mathematicians, physicists, developers and annotation professionals.

It suits you less if you're in a lower-paid capture region and looking for a substantial income, or if you're uncomfortable recording first-person video.

For US-based contributors and specialists, Claru is worth joining: rates are transparent, the work is clearly described, and the expert tiers ($55–$100 an hour) are competitive. Capture work is an easy entry point for people without specialist skills.

Outside the US, compare the capture rate for your region with alternatives. As with any project-based platform, keep one or two others active as well.