Toloka review: what happened to it, and what to use instead

What Toloka is now

Toloka was a crowd platform where people, called Tolokers, were paid for small online tasks such as labelling data or checking search results. That individual task work has moved to Mindrift, a platform run by the same company, Toloka AI BV, where contributors work as independent freelancers and are paid for each task that is completed and accepted.

On Mindrift, work includes all-access micro-tasks such as rating and comparing AI responses, labelling and classifying content, verifying information, judging search results or ads for relevance, and recording short videos. There are also specialised projects, such as writing prompts or evaluating AI outputs, that require passing a qualification task or having domain expertise first. Each task shows its fixed reward before you start it.

A 'Toloka: Earn online' app is still listed on Google Play, but it is not stated whether it still works for tasks now that individual task work has moved to Mindrift.

Toloka and Mindrift at a glance

These points come from Toloka's and Mindrift's own published pages.

Facts checked on 2026-10-06

What to check before you join a similar platform

Micro-task and crowd-work platforms like this one are a different kind of product from a rewards site: you are paid for completing and getting a specific piece of work accepted, not for giving your opinion in a survey or trying out an app.

• Whether your country is actually supported, since many of these platforms publish only a list of excluded locations rather than a list of countries where you can work.
• What payout method is used, who the payment partner is, and whether that partner charges its own fees.
• Whether there is a minimum age, and whether the platform asks for identity or residency verification before you can be paid.
• Whether pay is a fixed amount shown before each task, or depends on acceptance after review.
• Whether the platform promises any ongoing supply of work, since most state clearly that they do not.

Toloka and Mindrift compared with PocketsFull

The two are not the same type of product: one pays for completed micro-tasks, the other rewards surveys and offers.

How PocketsFull is different

PocketsFull is an online rewards site, not a micro-task platform. Members take paid surveys from market-research providers, complete offers such as trying an app or a game, and collect rewards they can redeem, rather than being paid per accepted data-labelling task.

Joining and using PocketsFull is free, and there is no deposit of any kind. Not every survey will fit every person, since survey providers look for specific profiles, so being screened out before the end happens to everyone from time to time. Keeping your profile complete and accurate helps you get matched with more surveys.

Game and app offers on PocketsFull work in a similar spirit to task work: you follow the steps an offer lists, such as installing a game and reaching a certain point in it, and the reward is added once the partner confirms it, which for some offers can take between 7 and 30 days.

How you get paid on PocketsFull

Redeemed rewards on PocketsFull can be exchanged for gift cards, and the gift card list depends on your country, so members in India see local brands such as Amazon, Flipkart and PlayStation.

In India, UPI is also on the redeem screen, paid to a UPI ID such as one from Paytm, PhonePe or Google Pay. PayPal and Litecoin are listed as well. Payoneer, which Toloka and Mindrift use, is not a payout option on PocketsFull.