What's real
What company data has actually sold for.
Most payout figures in data licensing ads have no source. We checked them. Below are the deals we could trace to a court record, a company filing or an executive speaking on the record, each with a link. Read them as context, not as a quote for your company.
Ordinary companies
Closed and operating companies, like yours.
A closed transcription company: "hundreds of thousands of dollars"
cielo24 sold 13 years of Slack, Jira, email and Google Drive records after it closed. Its former CEO gave the figure on the record. The exact amount was not disclosed.
Closing startups: typically $10,000 to $100,000 each
Two wind-down services, SimpleClosure and Sunset, reported about 100 sales of code and archives from closing startups in a year, typically $10,000 to $100,000 per company. This is the only independently reported typical range we found.
An airline in bankruptcy: a $10 million bid, not yet approved
Google won a court auction with a $10 million bid for Spirit Airlines' de-identified email, chat, crew and flight operations records. The sale is not approved and nothing has been paid. The hearing is set for November 6, 2026.
Reuters, October 8, 2026 and court filings
We found no verified public deal yet for a logistics or freight company. If you see a figure for one, ask for the source.
Context only
Platforms and publishers.
These are large content owners, not ordinary companies. They show that AI developers pay for data, not what a typical company earns.
Reddit to Google: about $60 million a year
A license to Reddit's public content for AI training.
News Corp to OpenAI: more than $250 million over five years
Archive and current news content, in cash and credits.
Wiley: $23 million, then $21 million
Two licenses of books and journals to large technology companies, reported in Wiley's own results.
What we leave out
Figures we could not verify.
Some sites publish payout tables by company size, and case studies with exact dollar amounts. We could not trace those to any named company, court record or filing, so we do not repeat them. When you see a number, look for a named company, a date and a link.
How Codicilla pays
A revenue share, set license by license.
Codicilla is the buyer, not a broker, so no broker percentage comes out of your share. Operating companies keep their originals and earn a share of each license their data earns, reported and paid quarterly. There is no fee and no commission, and we pay for the cleanup. We do not quote a payout before the rights review, because what a license earns depends on buyer demand and on the records themselves.
Checked October 18, 2026. We update this page as deals close or fall through.