~$25K
One founder got roughly $25,000 for his code base through SimpleClosure, with about $15,000 pending for workspace data.
(MIT Technology Review, checked 18 Oct 2026)
Record type
The market for source code repositories
Codebases with their history are taken by Replay, Turing, Grepped, Troveo, SimpleClosure and Mercor. Reported prices are modest per repository: one founder got about $25,000 for his codebase through SimpleClosure, and Troveo cites a closure-market baseline of about $5,000 per repo. Labs separately pay coding experts $70 to $150 an hour.
Page updated 19 Oct 2026. Figures checked 18 Oct 2026 at their sources.
Tools that hold it
- GitHub
- GitLab
- Bitbucket
- Jira
- Confluence
Programmes
Who says they accept it
Programme
What it says
Source
What it saysSource code, reviews and tickets as build history.
(Turing, checked 18 Oct 2026)
What it saysGitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and Jira under codebases.
(Grepped, checked 18 Oct 2026)
What it saysSourceCode: repositories, docs, tests and ticketing.
(SimpleClosure, checked 18 Oct 2026)
Price signals
What the record has fetched, where anyone says
~$5K
Troveo cites closure-market baselines of about $5,000 per repo and roughly $10,000 to $100,000 per deal (market figures, not Troveo's offer).
(Troveo, checked 18 Oct 2026)
$70 to $150/h
Mercor's listing for software engineering experts who grade model-written code: "$70-$150 / hr". Pay for labour, not for data, but it shows what coding judgement costs.
(Mercor job listing, checked 18 Oct 2026)
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What buyers say they do with it
- Turing treats code, reviews and tickets together as build history. (Turing, checked 18 Oct 2026)
- SimpleClosure counts code or data sales in 47% of its deals, per MIT Technology Review. (MIT Technology Review, checked 18 Oct 2026)
Notes for reading the market
Code is the one record type with repeated per-repository figures, mostly from startup wind-downs.
Jira and Confluence data is deleted 60 days after a paid site is deactivated, which removes the tickets that give commits their context.
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
01Which programmes accept source code?
Replay, Turing, Grepped, Troveo, SimpleClosure and Mercor name code, repositories or GitHub among what they take.
02What does a startup codebase sell for?
Reported figures are small: about $25,000 for one founder's codebase through SimpleClosure, and a closure-market baseline of about $5,000 per repository cited by Troveo.
03Why does commit history matter?
Buyers such as Turing and Replay list commits, reviews and tickets together. History shows how code changed and why, which a snapshot cannot.
04What do labs pay coding experts?
Mercor's software engineering expert listing shows $70 to $150 an hour for grading model-written code. Outlier and DataAnnotation list up to $150 an hour for coding and ML work.
05What happens to Jira data after cancelling?
Atlassian keeps a deactivated paid site's data for 60 days, then deletes it. Removing Jira from a site that stays active deletes its data at once.
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