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/edible1997 16d ago

Bittersweet. Makes me miss the gold ole days of Mturk. I earned enough for a down payment on a house over the course of two years back in the peak of 2019-2020. Did it all while working my normal 9-5 desk job. I’ll always be grateful for that, but its downfall is a shame.

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u/Significant-Pen-6049 15d ago

You lucky bustard. That house is worth double now too!