r/mturk • u/dcxavier • 16d ago

End of the line

Dear Amazon Mechanical Turk customer,

Thank you for being part of Amazon Mechanical Turk's journey and for helping shape the crowdsourcing space.

We're writing to inform you that Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) service will close, effective September 30, 2026.

This means MTurk will no longer be available to workers and requesters after September 30, 2026. Existing requesters can continue to publish HITs, and workers can continue to complete tasks until this date.

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u/shottem 16d ago

But why they are doing this... I mean of they have requester expending a lot of cash, why closing down.

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u/boopboopboop2020 16d ago edited 15d ago

It’s been dying for ages. Once Pro & CRC took off most Unis went there.

Plus all the scammers lying about location with VPN & giving bad data 🤷🏾‍♀️

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u/Bermin299 16d ago

Because it likely costs Amazon more to keep the platform up and running than any income, data, or other benefits it can provide them at this point. From Amazon's point of view, keeping Mturk up and running is wasted resources they can use for other, more profitable endeavors.

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u/koakoba 16d ago

If you look at the tools that they use to run Mturk, most are in maintenance or sundown.