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Encord

Infrastructure

Multimodal data layer for AI teams: labelling, curation and evaluation across image, video, 3D and LiDAR, documents, audio and medical DICOM, sold to teams training models on their own data rather than buying a finished dataset.

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HeadquartersLondon, United Kingdom

StatusPrivate

Products

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• Encord Platform

  The multimodal data layer for physical AI: one platform for managing, curating, annotating and aligning sensor, video, image and text data at petabyte scale. The modules a buyer licenses — Annotate, Index and Active — are recorded separately.

• Encord Data Annotation Data service

  Managed annotation service: Encord supplies vetted domain experts for a customer's task and runs the projects, with an evaluation workflow built around the customer's own spec rather than volume alone.

• Encord Data Collection Data service

  Managed collection of real-world training data for physical AI: in-field operators, teleoperation facilities and configurable lab environments gathering the embodied, egocentric and sensor data a robotics model needs.

• Physical AI Data Data service

  End-to-end data service for robotics, autonomous systems and embodied AI: data collection (in-field operators, teleoperation), curation, LiDAR/point-cloud/multi-camera annotation, VLA/VLM action-captioning, and post-deployment feedback loops, with on-prem/VPC deployment.

Inside Encord

• Encord Annotate Data service Included with the parent

  Encord Annotate is Encord's multimodal data labeling product, used to annotate and review images, video, audio, text, documents, DICOM, LiDAR and geospatial data. It provides AI-assisted labeling, customizable ontologies, human-in-the-loop review workflows and quality-control tooling for managing large annotation teams.

• Encord Index Data service Included with the parent

  Encord Index is Encord's multimodal data curation and management product. It lets teams search datasets with natural language and similarity search across video, image, audio, LiDAR, text, document, geospatial and HTML files, filter by 40+ data metrics and custom metadata, visualise outliers on embeddings plots, and remove duplicates and poor-quality data via Collections. Data stays in the customer's own cloud with 'zero data migration required'.

• Encord Active Data service Included with the parent

  Encord Active is Encord's model and data evaluation product. It evaluates and validates models against their data to surface, curate and prioritise the most valuable data for training and fine-tuning, covering model robustness checks, drift and failure-mode detection, automated label-error detection, and active learning workflows across images, video, 3D/LiDAR, audio and documents.

• Data Agents Agent platform Included with the parent

  Data Agents automate Encord data pipelines by integrating humans, state-of-the-art models and a customer's own models into data workflows. They handle tasks such as pre-labeling, object segmentation and tracking, video captioning, audio transcription and sentiment analysis, combined with human-in-the-loop quality assurance.

• Merlin AI agent Included with the parent

  Merlin is Encord's agentic intelligence layer, letting teams build, observe and optimise their data infrastructure through conversation. It creates complete labeling setups from prompts or documents, reports data metrics and coverage gaps on demand, and surfaces issues affecting model performance. It is reachable inside Encord or from external tools over Model Context Protocol, including Claude and Slack.

Closest alternatives 3

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Encord's scale not recorded; ships developer tool and infrastructure service rather than the same layer.1 of 7 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareKEKakao EnterprisePrivateEncord and Kubeflow both serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; scale not recorded for either.1 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTATogether AIPrivate · $8.3BEncord Data Annotation and Together Custom Training both serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Encord's scale not recorded; ships API service, developer tool and 2 more rather than the same layer.Different layerCompareNCNAVER CloudPrivateEncord and ML expert Platform both serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; scale not recorded for either.1 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareCCrusoePrivate · $10BPhysical AI Data and Serverless Fine-Tuning both serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; Encord's scale not recorded; ships API service, developer tool and 2 more rather than the same layer.1 of 7 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareNGNebius GroupPublic · $61.6BEncord Data Annotation and Managed Service for MLflow both serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; 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Valuation

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Founded

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